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Professor Peter Bishop interviewed by Dr Max Blythe
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]Professor Peter Bishop interviewed by Dr Max Blythe
[nb-NO]Reference[nb-NO]240000016
[nb-NO]Date[nb-NO]1996
[nb-NO]Creator[nb-NO]Australian Academy of Science
[nb-NO]Scope and Content[nb-NO]Professor Peter Bishop was born in 1917 in Tamworth, New South Wales. He received a BMBS (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery) from the University of Sydney in 1940. He served in the Navy during World War II then went to England where he began his work in neurophysiology. In 1950 he returned to the University of Sydney where he continued his work on the electrical stimulation of the optic nerve. He became Professor of Physiology in 1955. In the 1960s Bishop began studies into how an eye forms an image, and he and his colleagues developed a mathematical model of the visual system of a cat. He became interested in the ability of people to see in three dimensions, and found that nerve impulses from the two eyes go back to the same cell in the brain. Bishop was Professor and Head of the Department of Physiology in the John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University between 1967 and 1982. Peter Bishop passed away in June 2012.
[nb-NO]Language[nb-NO]English
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[nb-NO]Persons keyword[nb-NO] Peter Orlebar *Bishop, Max Blythe
[nb-NO]Subject[nb-NO]Neurophysiology, Optical measurements, Neurosciences, Science--History, Science--Social aspects
[nb-NO]Conditions governing access[nb-NO]The Australian Academy of Science supports and encourages the use of its archive & library by making a material available to the public under Creative Commons CC BY-NC 4.0 see creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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