Sperry

[sper-ee]

noun

1. Elmer Ambrose, 1860–1930, U.S. inventor and manufacturer.

2. Roger Wolcott, 1913–94, U.S. neurobiologist: Nobel Prize 1981.

Sperry

1. American neurobiologist who pioneered the behavioral investigation of “split-brain” animals and humans, establishing that each hemisphere of the brain controls specific higher functions. He shared with American neurophysiologist David H. Hubel and Swedish neurophysiologist Torsten N. Wiesel the 1981 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine.

Example Sentences

Moments after taking his front-row seat to see Kirk speak, Sperry watched in shock as a sniper bullet rang out and blood started pouring from Kirk's neck.

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There’s a reason a cooked J. Crew polo and slowly decaying Sperry Top Siders will always look good.

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“High school was Sperrys, khakis and a school polo,” he says.

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“I don’t think that there is any public benefit for this land being given to this project. There’s certainly not anything that I can see that is good about it,” Sperry said.

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Some had traveled from as far as Florida to purchase artwork by Chuck Sperry, famed for his art nouveau-style concert posters for bands like Pearl Jam and The Who.

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