Mathew Alpern (September 22, 1920 – May 16, 1996) was an American physiologist known for his research on color vision and color blindness. He was born in Akron, Ohio. He graduated from University of Florida in 1946 and from Ohio State University in 1950 with a PhD supervised by Glenn A. Fry. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1991. He died on May 16, 1996, at the University of Michigan Health System of congestive heart failure.

Awards

Edgar D. Tillyer Award, 1984

Charles F. Prentice Medal, 1988

Honorary Doctor of Science from the State University of New York, 1988

References

1920 births

1996 deaths

American physiologists

University of Michigan faculty

University of Florida alumni

Ohio State University Graduate School alumni

Mathew Alpern