Horace Barlow#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 1155 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 1992 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Horace Barlow passed away July 5, 2020.
Positions Held
- 1973 Royal Society Research Professor of Physiology, University of Cambridge
- Professor of Physiological Optics and Physiology at the University of California, Berkeley
Fields of Scholarship
- Visual systems
- Visual receptive fields
- Visual processing
Honours and Awards
- 1969 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 1993 Royal Medal, Royal Society
- 1993 Australia Prize (along with Peter Bishop and Vernon Mountcastle) for his research into the mechanisms of visual perception
- 2009 Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience, Society for Neuroscience
- 2016 The first Ken Nakayama Prize, Vision Sciences Society
