Person Barlow; Horace Basil (1921 - 2020) Barlow Horace Basil 1921 - 2020 British Male England, United Kingdom 08/12/1921 19211208 05/07/2020 20200705

Neuroscientist Neuroscience Vision Physiological optics Education: Winchester College; Harvard University, MD (1946) Career: Fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge; Royal Society Research Professor of Physiology at the University of Cambridge; University of California at Berkeley (1964-1973); University of Cambridge (1973-2020) Medals/Awards: Australia Prize 1993, Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience 2009; Ken Nakayama Prize 2016 Son of the civil servant Sir Alan Barlow and his wife Lady Nora (née Darwin), great grandson of Charles Darwin FRS; married 1. (1954) Ruthala Salaman, 2. (1980) Miranda Weston-Smith; professional collaboration with Richard Fitzhugh, Stephen Kuffler, William Levick Horace Barlow was best known for his analysis of the way that visual information is encoded as significant nerve signals. He was the first to show (in amphibians) the fundamental organisation of optic nerve fibres, namely that each is connected to a clump of receptors that excite, surrounded by a ring that inhibits. With Richard Fitzhugh and Stephen Kuffler, he analysed how this organization changes in dark adaptation. Horace’s work on human vision greatly strengthened the modern concept of threshold as signal detection in noisy channels, and he measured the quantum efficiency of seeing in various conditions. With William Levick, he showed that rabbits have optic nerves that signal not position but direction of movement, and by ingenious experiments analysed the neural mechanism by which specific movement is encoded. Dr Horace Barlow FRS died on 5 July 2020. Royal Society roles: Council: 1989-1990 Medals and prizes: Royal Medal 1993 Lectures: Ferrier 1980 Fellow 20/03/1969 47 Sources: https://royalsociety.org/people/horace-barlow-11035/; Wikipedia References: David Burr, 'Interview with Horace Barlow' in Current Biology volume 18, issue 12, June 2008 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2008.04.005 (accessed 6/7/2020) ©The Royal Society International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 8 Dec 1921 - 5 Jul 2020 NA4295 21/11/2001 Andyg pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes http://viaf.org/viaf/73913419 a9aa373f-a451-4e81-8c1a-c3641033ba84