The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1981
Awarded on: 1981-10-09
"for his discoveries concerning the functional specialization of the cerebral hemispheres"
Affiliations:
- California Institute of Technology (Caltech) – Pasadena, CA, USA
Roger W. Sperry
Born: 1913-08-20 in Hartford, CT, USA
Gender: male
Field: American neuropsychologist, neurobiologist and Nobel laureate
Biography
Roger Wolcott Sperry 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.