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Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (84) |
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APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology (4) |
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Karl Spencer Lashley Award (8) |
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Wolf Prize in Medicine (19) |
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| complete name: |
Roger Wolcott Sperry |
| nobel prize: |
medicine |
| award year: |
1981 |
| together with: |
Torsten Wiesel |
| together with: |
David Hubel |
| prize share: |
Prize share: 1/4 |
| rational: |
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1981 was divided, one half awarded to Roger W. Sperry "for his discoveries concerning the functional specialization of the cerebral hemispheres", the other half jointly to David H. Hubel and Torsten N. Wiesel "for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system." |
| biography: |
Biography |
| laureate facts: |
Facts |
| laureate lecture: |
Lecture |
| given name: |
Roger |
| family name: |
Sperry |
| occupation: |
physician |
| occupation: |
psychologist |
| occupation: |
neurologist |
| occupation: |
university teacher |
| field of work: |
neuropsychology |
| work location: |
Harvard University, Massachusetts Hall, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States of America |
| description: |
Roger Wolcott Sperry was a neuropsychologist, neurobiologist 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. |
| image copyright: |
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. |
| image citation: |
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1981. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1981/summary/> |
| date birth: |
1913 |
| date death: |
1994 |
| usual name: |
Roger Sperry |
