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Roger Sperry
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American neuroscientist
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Roger Wolcott Sperry was an American psychologist, neurologist, and physician. He worked as a university teacher at Harvard University, the California Institute of Technology, and the University of Chicago. His field of work was neuropsychology. He was educated at Oberlin College and the University of Chicago, where his doctoral advisor was Paul A. Weiss.
Sperry received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, the Wolf Prize in Medicine, and the National Medal of Science. He was a member of the Royal Society, the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His doctoral student was Michael S. Gazzaniga.
Born in Hartford in 1913, Sperry died in Pasadena in 1994. He spoke English. One of his works is titled *Science and moral priority*.
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- Born
- 1913
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Science andmoral priority
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1981
“for his discoveries concerning the functional specialization of the cerebral hemispheres”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Hartford
- Place of death
- Pasadena
- Occupation
- physiologist
- Employer
- University of Chicago
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Doctoral advisor
- Paul A. Weiss
- Doctoral student
- Michael S. Gazzaniga
- Field of work
- neuropsychology
- Image
- Roger Wolcott Sperry.jpg
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- member of
- National Academy of Sciences
- date of birth
- 1913-08-20
- date of death
- 1994-04-17
- Commons category
- Roger Wolcott Sperry
- name in native language
- Roger Wolcott Sperry
- interested in
- neuropsychology
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Encyclopedic overview
Roger Wolcott Sperry (August 20, 1913 – April 17, 1994) was an American neuropsychologist, neurobiologist, cognitive neuroscientist, and Nobel laureate who, together with David H. Hubel and Torsten Nils Wiesel, won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work with split-brain research. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Sperry as the 44th most cited psychologist of the 20th century.
Early life and education
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