Roger Wolcott Sperry
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 and Torsten Nils Wiesel, won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology and 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.
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| Born | Roger Wolcott Sperry August 20, 1913 Hartford, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Died | April 17, 1994 (aged 80) Pasadena, California, U.S. |
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| Awards | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1981) |
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| 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 |
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