Larry N. Thibos is an American scientist and academic. He is a

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and is a researcher in visual neurophysiology.

Early life and career

Thibos received bachelor's and master's degrees in

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from the

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. He earned a Ph.D. in 1975 in physiological optics from the

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. Thibos spent several years as a research fellow at the

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, where he studied neurophysiological processes related to the eye. In the 1980s, he became a faculty member at

. Currently he serves as a

at the Borish Center for Ophthalmic Research, a division of

and is a

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of both

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and

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. He is also a former editor of ''

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'' and the ''

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''.

Awards

In 1991 he received the Glenn A. Fry Lecture Award. By 2012, along with

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, he was honored with the Charles F. Prentice Medal Award. In 2014, he received the President's Research Medal.

References

External links

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