Philip Ewart Vernon (1905–1987).

Presents an obituary for Philip Ewart Vernon. One of Britain's eminent scientist-scholars, Vernon earned universal respect for his many contributions to educational and differential psychology and psychometrics. His unremitting devotion to scholarly work throughout a long and distinguished career was interrupted only by death (from cancer), on July 28, 1987, in Calgary. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Vernon Wellington Sparks, Sr. (1920-2002).

Reports the death of Vernon Wellington Sparks, Sr. (1920-2002). The authors discuss his contributions to the evolution of clinical psychology as well as his various personal and professional accomplishments. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Mark Philip Bryden: 1934-1996.

Reports that Mark Philip Bryden, PH.D., F.R.S.C., Professor of Psychology at the University of Waterloo, former editor of the Canadian Journal of Psychology (1980-1984), died suddenly of a heart attack in Montreal in August 1996, while attending the International Congress of Psychology. Phil's academic career will be remembered for his tireless efforts to explicate the implications of perceptual and perceptual-motor asymmetries in normal intact individuals for models of cerebral hemispheric functional specialization. What is noteworthy about his participation in this enterprise is that he was never one to eschew complexity nor one to espouse a too facile acceptance of the modal models of the day. Moreover, he had the utmost respect for data and an uncanny knack of devising experiments that could reveal the fragility of theory and of the means available to test it. Phil brought a rare clarity of thought, keen intellect, love of numbers, and honesty to all he did. But among those who knew him well, he will also be remembered for his personal interest in and nurturing of younger scientists. He will be sorely missed by the scientific community, and the many of us fortunate to have known him and to have worked closely with him. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Philip Hunter DuBois (1903-1998): Obituary.

Reports the death of Philip Hunter DuBois (1903-1998). The author discusses the chronology of his life. His accomplishments and contributions to the field of psychology and mathmatics. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Philip Brickman (1943-1982).

Presents an obituary for Philip Brickman, whose distinguished career in social psychology focused on issues such as justice, happiness, pain, inequality, helping, and coping. From 1968 to 1978, he was a faculty member in the psychology department at Northwestern University. In 1979, he went to the University of Michigan, where he joined the faculty as professor in the Psychology Department and director of the Research Center for Group Dynamics at the Institute for Social Research. By the time of his death, Brickman had published over 50 articles and book chapters, many of them very well known and widely cited. In addition to his published work, he enriched the field through his participation in several professional societies. He had served on the Council of APA's Division 9 (The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues; SPSSI) and on the Executive Committee of Division 8 (Personality and Social Psychology), where he provided valuable leadership during the crisis in research funding that occurred during the early years of the first Reagan administration. Brickman passed away in 1982. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

E. Lowell Kelly (1905–1986).

Presents an obituary for E. Lowell Kelly. Kelly was an innovator, an iconoclast, a public-spirited individual, and an enemy of pretension. He constantly helped people solve their problems, from personal counseling in his early professional years to later work with many graduate students as they labored through their dissertations. Early in World War II, when he learned that lives were lost in night training because naval aviation cadets crashed into the planes ahead of them, he realized that the cadets could not judge their distance from a plane with only one tail light, and he introduced the simple notion of having two lights a standard distance apart. At the organizational level, Lowell worked for the Veterans Administration for a decade, while also carrying out his academic responsibilities at the University of Michigan. His service to the American Psychological Association included chairing the Executive Committee for the Boulder Conference on Graduate Training in Clinical Psychology (1948-1949), a conference that left its mark on the field for decades to come. He served on the Board of Directors for APA for six years and was president of both the Division of Consulting Psychology and the Division of Clinical Psychology. He was elected president of the Association and served in that role from 1954 to 1955. Throughout his career, Kelly's scientific interests and contributions centered on assessment. He tackled the problem of evaluating performance on the job, confronting the difficulty that criterion measures of such performance do not agree well with each other. Longitudinal research was Kelly's other focus. Throughout his scientific career, Kelly studied such varied phenomena as synaesthesia, graphology, pharmacology, and apparent movement. Kelly passed away in 1986. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Philip S. Holzman.

The American Psychological Foundation (APF) Gold Medal Awards recognize distinguished and enduring records of accomplishment in 4 areas of psychology. The 1997 recipient of the Gold Medal Award for Life Achievement in the Application of Psychology is Philip S. Holzman. This article discusses Holzman's life and contribution to psychology especially in schizophrenia and psychopathology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Philip S. Holzman (1922-2004).

Philip S. Holzman died of a stroke on June 1, 2004, in Boston, Massachusetts, at the age of 82. As a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, as one of the researchers who first probed the meaning of individual differences in perception and cognition, and as the founder of a field of research central to the pathophysiology and genetic vulnerability for schizophrenia, he was one of the most remarkably accomplished scientist-clinicians of our time. Holzman was the Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Harvard University, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and director of the Psychology Research Laboratory at McLean Hospital. This obituary discusses Holzman's life, his research, practice, teaching career, and his many achievements. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Early Career Awards for 1978: Philip M. Groves.

Philp M. Groves earned an Early Career Award for his outstanding research and theoretical contributions to biological psychology. Groves's early work with Thompson on the neuronal mechanism of habituation and sensitization in the spinal cord and his later empirical and theoretical extensions of this work to the intact animal constitute a major advance in our understanding of the neuronal mechanisms underlying these simple forms of animal learning. His recent conceptualization of a new mechanism of action of amphetamine and the antipsychotic drugs illustrates a high degree of creativity, flexibility, and independence of thought. This work is a significant contribution to our knowledge of the synaptic mechanisms underlying the effects of amphetamine on the brain. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Distinguished contribution to education and training in psychology: Philip R. Laughlin.

Presents a brief overview of the career of Philip R. Laughlin. Philip R. Laughlin has made an outstanding contribution to the education and training of professional psychologists through his leadership in the Veterans Administration. As Chairperson for the Psychology Representation Training Committee, he has advised the VA on policy, affiliated programs, distribution of funds budgeted for psychology interns, and related matters. As Chair of the Committee on Psychology Training of the Association of VA Chief Psychologists and as a member of a number of VA committees and task forces, he has been a strong and articulate voice for psychology training in the VA system. He has also served as a member of the APA Committee on Accreditation, the Executive Committee of the Association of Psychology Internship Centers, and as recorder at the National Internship Training Conference in 1987. In all these roles, as well as in his work as Executive Officer for the Iowa Psychological Association, he has worked for the strengthening of support for, and excellence of, internship training in psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards for 1978: Philip Teitelbaum.

Philip Teitelbaum was presented a Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award for his highly original and creative concepts of how the brain works to yield behavior, based on the soundest empirical data collected in his own ingenious experiments. A common thread of ideas runs through his work ranging from hypothalamic control of feeding and motivation, and their sensory control, to the operant control of reflexes and the nature of voluntary response. All are tied together in a conceptualization of the hierarchical organization of nervous system structure and function, revealed in phylogeny, ontogeny, and the effects of brain lesions, and integrating sensory and motor control mechanisms operating at all levels of complexity. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

J. E. Keith Smith (1928-2002).

This obituary reviews the life and work of J. E. Keith Smith (1928-2002). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

McCay Vernon: Award for Distinguished Senior Career Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest.

Presents a citation for McCay Vernon, who received the Award for Distinguished Senior Career Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest "for fifty-five years of distinguished contributions toward improving the lives of both deaf and deaf-blind individuals." Accompanying the citation are a brief profile and a selected bibliography, as well as Vernon's award address, The APA and Deafness (see record 2006-21079-030). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Merle E. Meyer (1928-2005).

Presents an obituary for Merle E. Meyer (1928-2005). Upon receiving his master's degree, Merle moved to Whitman College, where he advanced and served as the chair of the Department of Psychology. In 1966 he moved to Western Washington University, where he became chair in 1967. In his final move, Merle came to the University of Florida as chair in 1972. He spent the rest of his career in Gainesville, continuing as chair until 1988. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Award for distinguished senior career contributions to psychology in the public interest: Philip G. Zimbardo.

Presents the citation, biography, and selected bibliography for Philip G. Zimbardo one of the 2008 recipients of the American Psychological Association's Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Helmut E. Adler (1920-2001).

Memorializes Helmut E. Adler, known for his research on spatial orientation in birds and for his writings on the history of psychology. In the 1960s with the help of his son Barry, he used computer simulations to study bird migration patterns, a highly innovative technique for the time. His most notable work in the field of the history of psychology was his translation of Volume 1 of Fechner's Elemente der Psychophysik in 1966. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Philip G. Zimbardo: Distinguished Contributions to Education in Psychology Award for 1975.

Presents a brief biography of Dr. Philip Zimbardo on the occasion of his receiving the Distinguished Contribution to Education in Psychology Award from the American Psychological Foundation in 1975. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Felix E. Goodson II (1922-2007).

Provides an obituary for Felix E. Goodson II, a psychologist who focused mainly on evolutionary psychology and who passed away on May 17, 2007. In his teaching and writing, Felix emphasized the historical and theoretical roots of psychology, as can be seen in the four chapters he wrote for Theories in Contemporary Psychology (2nd ed., 1976), co-authored with Melvin Marx. His book The Evolutionary Foundations of Psychology: A Unified Theory (1973) grew out of almost two decades of seminars and empirical studies with DePauw students and colleagues. However, his magnum opus, 30 years in the making, was The Evolution and Function of Cognition (2003), published when Felix was 81 years old, 18 years after his formal retirement. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Enrico E. Jones (1947-2003).

Reports the obituary of Enrico E. Jones (1947-2003), clinician, psychoanalyst, and researcher. Recipient of the Kenneth and Manie Clark Award, a National Research Council Fellowship, and a National Science Foundation Fellowship to work at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris, Jones left an impact whose integrity and loyalty to his many friends, colleagues and students were cherished gifts to those who knew him. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)