• John C. Baird (June 24, 1938 – June 8, 2011)

     Timothy Hubbard John C. (“Jack”) Baird received his bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth in 1960 and his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1964. He served as a Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College from 1967 until he retired in 2000, and from 2000 until his death served as an Adjunct Professor of Medicine…

  • Joseph Charles Stevens (1929-2014)

    Larry Marks John B. Pierce Laboratory and Yale University A leader in sensory psychophysics during the second half of the 20th century, Joe Stevens died unexpectedly but peacefully at his home on February 7, 2014, three weeks shy of his 85th birthday. Born and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Joe attended Calvin College, where…

  • Reflections on the Life and Work of Bertram Scharf (1931-2011)

    Robert & Martha TeghtsoonianSmith College Northampton, Massachusetts We first met Bert in September, 1955, when all three of us were part of the incoming class of graduate students in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. For us, his most distinctive feature was the black beret that he always wore outdoors, and sometimes indoors…

  • Lorraine Allan (1940-2012)

    Scott Parker American University, Washington, DC Lorraine was a longstanding and dedicated member of the ISP, and was a member of the Executive Board in 1996 and 1997. Born in Toronto, she did her undergraduate work at the University of Toronto and her graduate work at McMaster University. After receiving her Ph.D. she remained…

  • Jacques Kornbrot 1938 -2014

    To all my good friends in ISP, sad to inofrm you of death of Jacques on 6th Nov. He was my unfailing support in all my work for ISP, so any achievements and contributions of mine are also his. See http://wp.me/PYt7T-6W