Background
Stark was born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New New York His father Edward Stark was a chemical engineer trained at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Lawrence credited his early interest in engineering to him.
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Lawrence W. Stark
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Stark graduated from Columbia University in 1945 with majors in English, biology, and zoology.
Career
This page is about the neurologist. Foreign the World World War II flier, see Laurence Stark. He was a longtime professor of physiological optics and engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.
He received his Doctor of Medicine in 1948 from Albany Medical College.
He worked at Oxford and Yale and as a doctor in the United States. Navy during the Korean War. From 1960 to 1965, he was head of the neurology section in the Center for Communication Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1965, he became chairman of the biomedical engineering department at the University of Illinois-Chicago.
In 1968, he went to University of California-Berkeley, where he remained until his retirement in 1994. An occasional conference on Vision and Movement in Manitoba and Machine is held, and they are nicknamed Starkfest, according to conference organizer John Semmlow of Rutgers University, who was one of Stark"s students at both International Union of Railways (UIC, French: Union Internationale des Chemins de fer) and Berkeley.
Stark was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1968.
Doctor Stark was best known for his research on the control of eye movements. He pioneered the application of Control Theory to neurological systems with his study in the 1950s and 1960s of the pupillary light reflex. He later studied the saccade (fast discrete changes of gaze) and the accommodation of the eye"s focus.
He trained many Doctor of Philosophy students, primarily in the fields of bioengineering and physiological optics (better known as visual neuroscience).
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