Ranked Sperry as the 44th most cited psychologist of the 20th century
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Roger Sperry
Roger Wolcott Sperry was an American neuropsychologist, neurobiologist, cognitive neuroscientist, 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.
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science · American neuropsychologist, neurobiologist and Nobel laureate · psychologist · neurologist · physician · university teacher · physiologist · also Roger Sperry, Roger Wolcott Sperry, Roger W. Sperry, Sperry
Born 20 August 1913 · Died 17 April 1994 · Q232305
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2002· 1 entry
1994· 3 entries
Died 1994-04-17.
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“The cells and fibers of the brain must carry some kind of individual identification tags, presumably cytochemical in nature, by which they are distinguished one from another almost, in many regions, to the level of the single neurons.”
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“The centermost processes of the brain with which consciousness is presumably associated are simply not understood. They are so far beyond our comprehension that no one I know of has been able to imagine their nature.”
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1993· 3 entries
Awarded APA Award for Outstanding Lifetime Contributions to Psychology (1993).
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“The Impact and Promise of the Cognitive Revolution”
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Sperry received the Lifetime Achievement Award from APA
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1989· 3 entries
Awarded William James Fellow Award (1989).
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Won National Medal of Science (1989).
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Sperry also received the National Medal of Science
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1981· 2 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for his discoveries concerning the functional specialization of the cerebral hemispheres.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1981).
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1979· 3 entries
Awarded Wolf Prize in Medicine (1979).
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Awarded Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (1979).
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Awarded Ralph W. Gerard Prize (1979).
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1976· 2 entries
Awarded Karl Spencer Lashley Award (1976).
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Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1976).
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1972· 1 entry
The National Medal of Science in 1989, the Wolf Prize in Medicine in 1979, and the Albert Lasker Medical Research Award in 1979, and the Nobel Prize for Medicine/Physiology in 1981 that he shared with David H
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1971· 1 entry
Awarded APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology (1971).
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1969· 1 entry
Won Howard Crosby Warren Medal (1969).
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1964· 1 entry
“Evolution of the Human Brain”
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1963· 1 entry
“intricate chemical codes under genetic control”
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1954· 1 entry
Accepted the position of professor at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech as Hixson Professor of Psychobiology) where he performed his most famous experiments with Joseph Bogen, MD and many students includ
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1952· 2 entries
Became the Section Chief of Neurological Diseases and Blindness at the National Institutes of Health and finished out the year at the Marine Biology Laboratory in Coral Gables, Florida
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And became an Associate Professor of Psychology
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1949· 2 entries
During a routine chest x-ray, there was evidence of tuberculosis
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Sperry married Norma Gay Deupree
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1946· 1 entry
To become an assistant professor, and later associate professor, at the University of Chicago
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1942· 1 entry
Sperry began work at the Yerkes Laboratories of Primate Biology, then a part of Harvard University
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1935· 1 entry
And a master's degree in psychology in 1937
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1913· 1 entry
Born 1913-08-20.
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