Roger Sperry | |
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Born | Roger Wolcott Sperry August 20, 1913 Hartford, Connecticut, U.S. |
Died | April 17, 1994 Pasadena, California, U.S. | (aged 80)
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Awards | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1981) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Neuropsychology |
Thesis | Functional results of crossing nerves and transposing muscles in the fore and hind limbs of the rat (1941) |
Doctoral advisor | Paul A. Weiss |
Website | rogersperry |
Neuropsychology |
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Roger Wolcott Sperry (August 20, 1913 – April 17, 1994) was an American neuropsychologist, neurobiologist, cognitive neuroscientist, and Nobel laureate who, together with David Hunter Hubel[1] and Torsten Nils Wiesel, won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his work with split-brain research.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Sperry as the 44th most cited psychologist of the 20th century.[12]
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