Background
SPERRY, Roger was born on August 20, 1913 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Son of Francis Bushnell Sperry and Florence Kramer.
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SPERRY, Roger was born on August 20, 1913 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Son of Francis Bushnell Sperry and Florence Kramer.
AB, Oberlin College, 1935. Master of Arts, Oberlin College, 1937. Honorary Doctor of Science, Oberlin College, 1982.
Doctor of Philosophy, University Chicago, 1941. Doctor of Science (honorary), University Chicago, 1976. Doctor of Science (honorary), Cambridge University, 1972.
Doctor of Science (honorary), Kenyon College, 1979. Doctor of Science (honorary), Rockefeller University, 1980., Oberlin College, 1982.
Research fellow Harvard and Yerkes Laboratories, 1941—1946. Assistant professor anatomy University Chicago, 1946—1952, section chief National Institute Neurological Diseases of National Institutes of Health, also associate professor psychology, 1952—1953. Hixon professor psychobiology California Institute of Technology, 1954—1984, Board Trustees professor emeritus, 1984—1994.
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Fellow: American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Academy of Sciences, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences (foreign member), Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Royal Society (foreign member), American Neurological Association, American Philosophical Society, American Academy Arts & Sciences.
Son of; married Norma G. Deupree, December 28, 1949. Children: Glenn Tad, Jan Hope.