Herbert Jakob Weingartner
Point of view:
The creative process in science and art share much in common. For decades I have integrated my work as an artist and neuroscientist. I retired from NIH but am still active in the study of the neurobiological basis of cognition. I also continued working as an artist and exhibited my art in several galleries in the US and Germany. The themes of my paintings convey a range of emotions and ideas to stimulate the imagination and fantasy in the child in us.
Brief biography:
Born in Germany (1935); undergraduate degree in physics (City University of New York, BA), graduate studies in experimental psychology/neuroscience (Johns Hopkins University PhD). After my graduate studies, I joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine. Later in my career, I directed a cognitive neuroscience program at the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland.