Kenneth N. Ogle was a scientist of human vision. Born in Colorado

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, he earned a bachelor's degree from Colorado College

Colorado College

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 in 1925 and a Ph.D. from Dartmouth College

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 in 1930. He was later awarded an honorary medical degree by the University of Uppsala in Sweden

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He spent much of his working life at the Dartmouth Eye Institute, to which he was appointed by Adelbert Ames, Jr.

Adelbert Ames, Jr.

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. He made significant contributions to the understanding of human binocular vision

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In 1967, he won the Tillyer Medal, awarded by the Optical Society of America

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. He died less than two months after retiring from the Mayo Clinic

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in Rochester, Minnesota, where he had begun working as a consultant in 1947.

Selected bibliography

• Ogle, K. N. (1950). Researchers in binocular vision. New York: Hafner Publishing Company.
• Ogle, K. N. (1953). Precision and validity in stereoscopic depth perception from double images. Journal of the Optical Society of America, 43, 906-913.
• Ogle, K. N. (1962). Ocular dominance and binocular retinal rivalry. In H. Davson (Ed.), Visual optics and the optical space sense: Vol. 4 (pp. 409-417). New York: Academic Press.
• Lowe, S. W., & Ogle, K. N. (1966). Dynamics of the pupil during binocular rivalry. Archives of Ophthalmology, 75, 395.
• Ogle, K. N. (1967). On Binocular Rivalry, by W. J. M. Levelt (Book Review). Contemporary Psychology, 12, 340.
• Ogle, K. N. (1967). Some aspects of stereoscopic depth perception. Journal of the Optical Society of America, 57, 1073-1081.
• Ogle, K. N., & Wakefield, J. M. (1967). Stereoscopic depth and binocular rivalry. Vision Research, 7, 89-98.