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Early life and education. Sperry was born in Hartford, Connecticut, to Francis Bushnell and Florence Kraemer Sperry. His father was in banking, and his mother trained in business school. He was raised in an upper middle-class environment, which stressed academic achievement.
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Sperry’s early research was on the regeneration of nerve fibres. He eventually became interested in brain function and undertook research on animals and then on human epileptics whose brains had been “split”— i.e., in whom the thick cable of nerves (the corpus callosum) connecting the right and left cerebral hemispheres had been severed.
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Childhood & Early Life. Roger Wolcott Sperry was born on August 20, 1913, in Hartford, Connecticut. His father, Francis Bushnell Sperry, was a banker while his mother, Florence Kraemer Sperry, was trained in business school. He had a younger brother, Russell Loomis Sperry, who grew up to be a chemist.
Jul 23, 1997 · Roger Wolcott Sperry (1913-1994) was born in Hartford, Connecticut and grew up on a farm outside Hartford. He attended Hartford public schools. At West Hartford High School he was a star athlete in several sports, but he also did well enough academically to win a scholarship to Oberlin College, in Ohio. He graduated from Oberlin in 1935 with a ...
Biography. R. W. Sperry was borm August 20, 1913, in Hartford, Connecticut, and received his primary and secondary education nearby in Ehnwood and West Hartford. He attended Oberlin College in Ohio on a four-year Miller Scholarship where he majored in English literature and varsity athletics.
Feb 26, 2018 · Sperry was born on 20 August 1913 in Hartford, Connecticut, to Florence Kraemer Sperry and Francis Bushnell Sperry. He had one younger brother, Russel Loomis. Sperry's father was a banker and his mother was a business student.
ROGER WOLCOTT SPERRY was born in Hartford, Connecticut on August 20, 1913. Sperry was imprinted on the mind-brain problem at a very tender age through a chance reading of William James, probably around the age of 10. For the next half century, his focus was unwavering and his connection to psychology central to his thinking and research.
