Roger Sperry - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1981
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Roger Sperry

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1981
for his discoveries concerning the functional specialization of the cerebral hemispheres
Citizenship
United States United States
Languages
English
date of birth
8/20/1913
place of birth
Hartford
date of death
4/17/1994
place of death
Pasadena
Lived
80 years
member of
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1974
  • Royal Society of London
    • start time: 4/8/1976
  • Pontifical Academy of Sciences
  • National Academy of Sciences
  • Academy of Sciences of the USSR
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
employer
  • Harvard University
  • University of Chicago
  • California Institute of Technology
educated at
  • Oberlin College
  • Hall High School
  • University of Chicago
field of work
  • neuropsychology
occupation
  • psychologist
  • neurologist
  • physiologist
  • university teacher
  • physician
doctoral student
  • Michael S. Gazzaniga
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