Eugene GalanterColumbia University I met Bob Bush at Dartmouth at the Social Science Research Council Mathematics meeting, in the summer of 1953. I also met Fred Mosteller, Leon Festinger, and Paul Lazarsfeld…
Category: In Memoriam
Forty years after the founding of the Society, it cannot be a surprise that a number of long-time members are now deceased. For many of us, there are still strong memories of those former colleagues with whom we discussed psychophysical issues and whose friendship we enjoyed. It was deemed beneficial to document their accomplishments on the Society’s website. This way, new members can gain insight into the work of their predecessors, while former members can be reminded of their former colleagues’ achievements. What follows are the names of those members and brief accounts of their careers.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…