William Albert Hugh Rushton was a British physiologist who made important contributions to our understanding of color vision and perception. He is perhaps best known now for his development of the principle of univariance.
Rushton was born in London on 8 December 1901. He entered Cambridge University as a medical student in 1921 and obtained a degree in physiology in 1925. He received a PhD degree in 1928 working under Prof. E.D. Adrian for his research investigating the flow of current in and around nerves to determine the portion of the current responsible for excitation. As a result of this work he won the Stokes Studentship at Pembroke College in 1929. He spent 2 years at the Johnson Foundation in Philadelphia before returning to a Research Fellowship at Cambridge University. He went to University College Hospital in 1931 to study clinical medicine before obtaining a Lectureship at Cambridge University in 1935 after which he produced a prodigious body of work; he published 37...
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Rushton, W.A.H.: The time factor in electrical excitation. Biol. Rev. 10, 1–17 (1935)
Rushton, W.A.H.: A theory of excitation. J. Physiol. Lond. 84, 42P (1935)
Campbell, F.W., Rushton, W.A.H.: The measurement of rhodopsin in the human eye. J. Physiol. Lond. 126, 36P–37P (1954)
Campbell, F.W., Rushton, W.A.H.: Measurement of scotopic pigment in the living human eye. J. Physiol. Lond. 130, 131–147 (1955)
Rushton, W.A.H.: The difference spectrum and the photosensitivity of rhodopsin in the living human eye. J. Physiol. Lond. 134, 11–29 (1956)
Rushton, W.A.H.: A cone pigment in the protonope. J. Physiol. Lond. 168, 345–359 (1963)
Rushton, W.A.H.: A foveal pigment in the deuteranope. J. Physiol. Lond. 176, 24–37 (1965)
Baker, H.D., Rushton, W.A.H.: An analytical anomaloscope. J. Physiol. Lond.168, 31P–33P (1963)
Rushton, W.A.H.: Pigments and signals in colour vision (Review Lecture). J. Physiol. Lond. 220, 1P–31P (1972)
Further Reading
Barlow, H.B.: William Rushton. 8 December 1901–21 June 1980. Biograph. Mem. Fellows R. Soc. 32, 422–426 (1986)
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Westland, S. (2016). Rushton, William A. H.. In: Luo, M.R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Color Science and Technology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8071-7_345
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