Barry Lee obtained a B.A. in Physiology and Psychology at Oxford University in 1967 and a Ph.D. in Physiology from the Faculty of Medicine, University of London in 1971. He was an M.R.C. Scholar in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology at the National Institute for Medical Research, London (1967-1970), a Teaching Assistant at University College London (1968-1969), a Research Associate in the Center for Brain Research at the University of Rochester, New York (1971-1973), a Welcome Travelling Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen (1974-1975), a Staff Member and then Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry (1975-present), and a Professor of Biological Sciences at the State University of New York, College of Optometry (2000-present).
.Barry Lee has been working with one of the most important aspects of visual system organization: information transfer through retinal ganglion cells. Most of his work has been performed in the primate retina in catarrhines and platyrrhines, the so-called “Old World and New World monkeys”, respectively. His works helped to establish the physiological basis for the red-green, blue-yellow, and black-white dimensions of color vision.
