Charles F. "Chuck" Stevens (September 1, 1934 – October 21, 2022)[2] was an American neurobiologist at the Salk Institute in La Jolla.
[citation needed] In 2002, together with Dmitri Chklovskii, Stevens described the "3/5 Power Scaling law of neural circuits."
Stevens and Anderson used noise analysis to infer the conductance of single acetylcholine ion channels.
This work paved the way for Nobel laureate Erwin Neher's patch clamping techniques.
Stevens was elected member to the National Academy of Sciences in 1982, and he was formerly an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.