[visionlist] Awarding of the 2005 Verriest Medal

[Ken Knoblauch]

Verriest medal - 2005

The International Colour Vision Society is pleased to announce that
the Verriest Medal will be awarded at the biennial meeting in Lyon,
France (July 8-12, 2005) to John D. Mollon, Professor of Visual
Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, UK. This award is
bestowed by the Society to honor long-term contributions to the field
of color vision.  If the field of color vision was itself a rainbow,
then Professor Mollon's contributions cover nearly its full spectrum,
including the isolation and elucidation of basic chromatic coding
mechanisms and the constraints that they impose on human (and more
generally primate) visual performance, the genetic basis of spectral
coding mechanisms, the ecological influences on and evolutionary
orgins of chromatic discrimination.  He has been instrumental in the
design of several new color vision tests and has extensively exploited
abnormal models, both congenital and acquired, to further our
understanding of normal mechanisms.  He is especially appreciated for
his keen and profound sense of the history of science, in particular
with respect to the field of color vision. 

The selection committee members were: John L. Barbur, Steven Buck,
Gabriele Jordan, Kenji Kitahara, Jay Neitz, Joel M. Pokorny and Andre
Roth.

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Ken Knoblauch,
General Secretary, ICVS
Inserm U371
Cerveau et Vision
Bron, France