Åke Hellström Stockholm University, Sweden Our very distinguished member, Professor Hannes Eisler, Stockholm University, has left us. He died on May 28, 2015, at the age of 91. He was a member…
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William M. Petrusic (1939-2014)
Craig Leth-Steensen and Jordan Schoenherr Carleton University, Ottawa Steven Carroll St. Mary’s University, Halifax William M. (“Bill”) Petrusic received a BA in psychology from the University of British Columbia in 1961, an…
Douglas Vickers (1940 – 2004)
Stephen Link University of California, San Diego Douglas Vickers, age 64, died suddenly at his home in Adelaide, Australia, on October 31, 2004. He is survived by his wife Yvonne, children Marc…
Fechner Day 2015, Québec, Canada, August 17–21
Fechner Day 2015 31st Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics The 31st meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics (ISP) was held in Québec, Canada, 17th – 21st of August, 2015. For details please…
Anna D. Eisler 1937-2011
Åke HellströmStockholms universitet, Stockholm Anna D. Eisler was born near Bratislava in former Czechoslovakia. In 1968 she came to Stockholm. Educated as an economist, she became employed as a bank clerk. After…
R. Duncan Luce (1925-2012)
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…
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…