For the World War II flier, see Laurence Stark.Lawrence W.
Stark (February 21, 1926 – October 22, 2004) was a neurologist and a recognized authority in the use of engineering analysis to characterize neurological systems.
He was a longtime professor of physiological optics and engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.
Stark was born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York.
His father Edward Stark was a chemical engineer trained at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Lawrence credited his early interest in engineering to him.