The International Society for Psychophysics

Craig Leth-Steensen* Carleton University, Canada     Our very distinguished and long-standing member, Professor William (“Bill”) M. Petrusic has left us. He died on Dec. 12, 2014, at the age of 75….

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

 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…

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…

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…