Roger W. Sperry

Recipient
Year
Citation

Roger W.
Sperry

Board of Trustees Professor of Psychobiology

California Institute of Technology
1989
Biology

For his work on neurospecificity which showed how the intricate brain networks for behavior are effected through a system of chemical coding of individual cells, which has made fundamental contributions to the understanding of human nature.

Presented to Dr. Sperry's son, Mr. Glen Sperry, by President Bush at a White House Ceremony on October 18, 1989.
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1981