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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Roger W. Sperry - Autobiography (http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1981/sperry-autobio.html)
Sperry was born in West Hartford, Connecticut to Francis Bushnell and Florence Kraemer Sperry.
Sperry attended Oberlin College where he received his bachelor's degree in English in 1935 and a master's degree in psychology in 1937.
Sperry and his colleagues then tested these patients with tasks that were known to be dependent on specific hemispheres of the brain and demonstrated that the two halves of the brain may each contain consciousness.
Sperry Corporation (1910-1986) was a major American equipment and electronics company whose existence spanned more than seven decades of the twentieth century.
Sperry also was the creator of the Ball Turret Gun that was mounted under the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, made famous by the Memphis Belle.
The takeover came about even after Sperry Rand used a "poison pill" in the form of a major share price hike to dissuade the hostile bid, as a result of which Burroughs had to borrow much more from the banks than was anticipated in order to complete the bid.
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