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Roger Sperry
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Roger Sperry

1913 – 1994 · aged 81

American neuroscientist

Born
20 Aug 1913 · Hartford
Died
17 Apr 1994 · Pasadena

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 93 years
  1. 20 Aug 1913BornBorn in Hartford
  2. 1969AwardHoward Crosby Warren Medal
  3. 1971AwardAPA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology
  4. 1976AwardForeign Member of the Royal Society
  5. 1976AwardKarl Spencer Lashley Award
  6. 1979AwardAlbert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
  7. 1979AwardRalph W. Gerard Prize
  8. 1979AwardWolf Prize in Medicine
  9. 1981AwardNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  10. 1989AwardNational Medal of Science
  11. 1989AwardWilliam James Fellow Award
  12. 1993AwardAPA Award for Outstanding Lifetime Contributions to Psychology
  13. 17 Apr 1994DiedDied in Pasadena

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1913 – 1994).

  1. 1914 – 1918World War I
  2. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  3. 1917Balfour Declaration
  4. 1917February Revolution
  5. 1917October Revolution
  6. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  7. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  8. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  9. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  10. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  11. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  12. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  13. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  14. 1938Munich Agreement
  15. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  16. 1939 – 1945World War II
  17. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  18. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  19. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  20. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  21. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  22. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  23. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  24. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  25. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  26. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  27. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  29. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  30. 1956Suez Crisis
  31. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  32. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  33. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  35. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  36. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  37. 1968Prague Spring
  38. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  39. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  40. 19741974 FIFA World Cup

Biography

Roger Wolcott Sperry (August 20, 1913 – April 17, 1994) 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.

Text from the Wikipedia article Roger Wolcott Sperry, CC BY-SA 4.0

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