Saturday, May 7, 2011

A Jerry Omnibus

Jerry's biography on Wikipedia (written by Jonathan) is here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Lettvin


Jonathan's pages on Jerry are here:
http://jerome.lettvin.info/

Jerry's autobiography (from "The History of Neuroscience in Autobiography) is here:
http://www.sfn.org/skins/main/pdf/history_of_neuroscience/hon_vol_2/c8.pdf

Lincoln Stoller interviews Jerry and his wife Maggie (WGBH exercise guru) here:
http://www.tengerresearch.com/learn/interviews/jeromelettvin_text.htm

A copy of his groundbreaking paper "What the frog's eye tells the frog's brain" is here:
http://jerome.lettvin.info/lettvin/Jerome/WhatTheFrogsEyeTellsTheFrogsBrain.pdf

A list of his scientific publications is here:
http://sites.google.com/site/lettvingroup/Home/biographies/jerry-lettvin/publications

His published translations of German poetry are here:
http://sites.google.com/site/lettvingroup/Home/biographies/jerry-lettvin/creative-writing/gallows-songs

An audio recording of his famous debate with Timothy Leary is here:
http://wn.com/Jerome_Lettvin

His MIT obituary is here:
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/obit-lettvin-0429.html

A remembrance of him by Marc Abrahams of the "Ig Nobel" awards and the Annals of Improbable Research is here:
http://improbable.com/2011/04/26/jerry-lettvin-is-gone/

To find out about a memorial for Jerry contact Gill Pratt at:
gill@alum.mit.edu

To post an article here contact David Lettvin at:
dlettvin@gmail.com

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