#lettvin

JERRY (JEROME) LETTVIN (1920 - 2011), MIT professor of electrical- and bio-engineering and communications physiology, M.D., psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and engineer, was known for his seminal paper “What the frog’s eye tells the frog’s brain”, as well as for speculating on the concept of “Grandmother cells” in the cerebral cortex, for publicly debating the use of LSD on TV with Timothy Leary on a few minutes notice, and for being a poet, translator, provocateur, and legendary MIT lecturer.  (Lettvin photo above copyright Arnold Newman.)