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Horace Barlow was born on 8 December, 1921, is a British vision scientist (1921–2020). Discover Horace Barlow's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 98 years old?

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1921

Horace Basil Barlow FRS (8 December 1921 – 5 July 2020) was a British vision scientist.

Barlow was the son of the civil servant Sir Alan Barlow and his wife Lady Nora (granddaughter of the naturalist Charles Darwin).

Barlow was the great-grandson of Charles Darwin and thus part of the Darwin — Wedgwood family.

He was educated at Winchester College where he met and befriend with Freeman Dyson.

1946

Barlow read natural sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge and earned an M.D. at Harvard University in 1946.

1953

In 1953, Barlow discovered that the frog brain has neurons which fire in response to specific visual stimuli.

This was a precursor to the work of Hubel and Wiesel on visual receptive fields in the visual cortex.

He has made a long study of visual inhibition, the process whereby a neuron firing in response to one group of retinal cells can inhibit the firing of another neuron; this allows perception of relative contrast.

1954

In 1954, he married Ruthala Salaman, daughter of M.H. Salaman.

They had four daughters: Rebecca, Natasha, Naomi and Emily.

1961

In 1961, Barlow wrote a seminal article where he asked what the computational aims of the visual system are.

He concluded that one of the main aims of visual processing is the reduction of redundancy, which has been extended to the efficient coding hypothesis.

While the brightnesses of neighbouring points in images are usually very similar, the retina reduces this redundancy.

His work thus was central to the field of statistics of natural scenes that relates the statistics of images of real world scenes to the properties of the nervous system.

Barlow also worked in the field of factorial codes.

The goal was to encode images with statistically redundant components or pixels such that the code components are statistically independent.

Such codes are hard to find but highly useful for purposes such as image classification.

Barlow was a fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge.

1969

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1969 and was awarded their Royal Medal in 1993.

1970

They were divorced in 1970.

1980

In 1980, he married Miranda, daughter of John Weston-Smith.

They had one son, Oscar, and two daughters, Ida and Pepita.

1993

He received the 1993 Australia Prize (along with Peter Bishop and Vernon Mountcastle) for his research into the mechanisms of visual perception, and the 2009 Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience from the Society for Neuroscience.

2016

He was awarded the first Ken Nakayama Prize from the Vision Sciences Society in 2016.

Barlow was married twice and fathered seven children.

2020

Barlow died on 5 July 2020, at the age of 98.