Roger Wolcott Sperry

Awards

1. 1979

   Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

   Biology

   For contributions to the knowledge of brain function, and the understanding of mental and psychosomatic diseases.

2. 1979

   Wolf Prize — Medicine

   Biology

   for his studies on the functional differentiation of the right and left hemispheres of the brain.

3. 1981

   Nobel Prize — Medicine

   Biology

   for his discoveries concerning the functional specialization of the cerebral hemispheres