Roger Sperry is Notable.

Biography

Sperry was born in Hartford, Connecticut, to Francis Bushnell and Florence Kraemer Sperry.

Roger Wolcott Sperry (August 20, 1913 – April 17, 1994) was an American neuropsychologist, neurobiologist and Nobel laureate who, together with David Hunter Hubel and Torsten Nils Wiesel, won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology and 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.

He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1981 for his discoveries on split brains. Essentially, Sperry and his students showed that if the two hemispheres of the brain are separated by severing the corpus callosum (the large band of fibers that connects them), the transfer of information between the hemispheres ceases, and the coexistence in the same individual of two functionally different brains can be demonstrated. By means of ingenious tests, Sperry and his group showed that definite behavioral phenomena can be demonstrated following the brain-splitting operation. The discovery of the duality of consciousness revealed in the split-brain experiments opened whole new fields of brain research, and these are now being worked by a new generation of biologists and philosophers.

He and calculator whiz David Packard were 7th cousins. He and Thomas Edison were 6C1R.

Sources

"United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCFJ-KHR : accessed 17 February 2019), Roger W Sperry in household of Francis B Sperry, West Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; citing ED 194, sheet 5B, line 88, family 107, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 180; FHL microfilm 1,820,180.

United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XMPY-F4N : accessed 17 February 2019), Roger W Sperry in household of Florence B Sperry, West Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 220, sheet 13B, line 64, family 331, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 269; FHL microfilm 2,340,004.

"United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K716-V5L : 13 March 2018), Roger W Sperry in household of Florence K Sperry, West Hartford Town, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 2-241, sheet 10A, line 6, family 173, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 508.

United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JPGF-KMZ : 20 May 2014), Roger W Sperry, 18 Apr 1994; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).

"California Death Index, 1940-1997," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VGBQ-8ZW : 26 November 2014), Roger W Sperry, 18 Apr 1994; Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Wolcott_Sperry

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1981/sperry/article/

http://psychyogi.org/sperry-1968-split-brain-study/

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