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Roger Wolcott Sperry (August 20, 1913 - April 17, 1994) was a neurobiologist and Nobel laureate who, together with David Hunter Hubel and Torsten Nils Wiesel, won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work with split-brain research.
Sperry was born in Hartford, Connecticut to Francis Bushnell and Florence Kraemer Sperry. Roger has one brother, Russell Loomis. Their father died when Roger was 11.
In his Nobel winning work, Sperry separated the corpus callosum, the area of the brain used to transfer signals between the right and left hemispheres, to treat epileptics.
In 1949, Sperry married Norma Gay Deupree. They have one son, Glenn Michael, and one daughter, Janeth Hope.
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