Biography

Ging-hsi Wang or Ching-hsi Wang, Chinese neurophysiologist (Tsinan, Shantung 07 July 1897 – 1968)

Discovered a circumscribed area on the gyrus compositus posterior of cat which could induce constriction of both pupils (1931), described several years later by Barris

With Bartley presented evidence to show that the latent period of the cortical potential varies according to that of the retinal potential (1934)

With Bartley and independently from Kornmuller and Fischer first to describe the action potentials in the superior colliculus produced by light stimulation of the retina (1934-7)