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Sperry
[ sper-ee ]
noun
- Elmer Ambrose, 1860–1930, U.S. inventor and manufacturer.
- Roger Wolcott, 1913–94, U.S. neurobiologist: Nobel Prize 1981.
Sperry
/ spĕr′ē /
- 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.
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In 1905, Elmer Sperry invented his gyroscopic compass which is unaffected by terrestrial magnetism and points to the true north.
Admiral Sperry, though not imposing or impressive in any way, seemed pleasant and keen, and was tall.
For at the corner of Sperry Street he was met by a messenger who knew him.
The financial success was due very largely to the State treasurer, Mrs. Austin Sperry.
In this very town of Cheltenham a young poet, named Sperry, who betrayed freethink-ing tendencies, had been called upon to recant.
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