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Roger Wolcott Sperry

1913 - 1994

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Roger Wolcott Sperry (August 20, 1913 – April 17, 1994) was an American neuropsychologist, neurobiologist, cognitive neuroscientist, and Nobel laureate 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Roger Wolcott Sperry is the 56th most popular psychologist (up from 60th in 2019), the 1,130th most popular biography from United States (down from 967th in 2019) and the 19th most popular American Psychologist.

Roger Wolcott Sperry is most famous for his work in the study of split-brain patients. He found that the left and right hemispheres of the brain have different functions.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Roger Wolcott Sperry ranks 56 out of 235. Before him are Elton Mayo, Kurt Koffka, Solomon Asch, Sándor Ferenczi, Martin Seligman, and Antonio Damasio. After him are Raymond Cattell, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Pierre Janet, Stanley Milgram, Alice Miller, and Fritz Perls.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Roger Wolcott Sperry ranks 43. Before him are Jimmy Hoffa, Frances Farmer, Werner Mölders, Witold Lutosławski, René Clément, and Artur Axmann. After him are Leônidas, Yasuo Suzuki, Motoo Tatsuhara, Erich Priebke, Xi Zhongxun, and Aimé Césaire. Among people deceased in 1994, Roger Wolcott Sperry ranks 46. Before him are Vladimir Ivashko, Witold Lutosławski, Henry Mancini, Gian Maria Volonté, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, and Paul Delvaux. After him are Julian Schwinger, Juvénal Habyarimana, Fernando Rey, Pujie, Sylva Koscina, and Robert Doisneau.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Roger Wolcott Sperry ranks 1,130 out of 20,380. Before him are Anne Sullivan (1866), Charley Patton (1891), David Fincher (1962), Mahershala Ali (1974), George H. Hitchings (1905), and Karl Barry Sharpless (1941). After him are L. Frank Baum (1856), Lewis Strauss (1896), William Kaelin Jr. (1957), William D. Leahy (1875), Frank B. Kellogg (1856), and Adam Sandler (1966).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United States

Among psychologists born in United States, Roger Wolcott Sperry ranks 19. Before him are Jerome Bruner (1915), Albert Ellis (1913), Lawrence Kohlberg (1927), Alfred Kinsey (1894), Milton H. Erickson (1901), and Martin Seligman (1942). After him are Stanley Milgram (1933), Leon Festinger (1919), Raymond Moody (1944), Philip Zimbardo (1933), Mary Ainsworth (1913), and George Armitage Miller (1920).

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