Alan Cowey

Alan Cowey FMedSci, FRS (28 April 1935 – 19 December 2012) was a British scientist and academic,[1] and the Emeritus Professor of Physiological Psychology at the University of Oxford. His primary interest was in the way in which we interpret the visual world.[1] He gained a BA from the University of Cambridge in 1957 and a PhD from Cambridge in 1961.[2] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1988, and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 1998. In 2000 he received an honorary DSc from the University of Durham,[2] and in 2007 he presented the Royal Society's Ferrier Lecture.[3]

References

1. Passingham, Dick (2018). "Alan Cowey. 28 April 1935—19 December 2012". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 66: 101–122. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2018.0017.
2. "Alan Cowey - Neuroscience". University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 7 March 2009. Retrieved 2 July 2009.
3. "The Ferrier Lecture (1928)". The Royal Society. Retrieved 2 July 2009.