Biography of Edward Irving

A Review Of Geraldine Jonçich's The Sane Positivist: A Biography Of Edward L. Thorndike.

Very little in the published histories of psychology prepares us for the giant that emerges from the pages of Geraldine Jonçich’s The Sane Positivist: A Biography of Edward L. Thorndike (1968). In his history of experimental psychology, Boring (1950) devotes two pages to the man, sandwiched in among other notes on ‘‘Columbia’s Functional Psychology.’’ But Thorndike himself had been almost equal...

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His current research interests include computer vision, pattern recognition and special architectures for vision and image processing. He is a student member of IEEE. both in computer science. He is currently a Ph.D. student at Michigan State University. His current research interests include pattern recognition, machine vision and their applications in robotics. India. He has also been a consu...

Laurence Irving: an appreciation.

Laurence Irving (1895-1979) contributed significantly over five decades to the development of environmentally oriented physiological studies. He is best known for his investigations of the physiology of diving mammals, the respiratory properties of fish blood, and cold adaptation and acclimatization in poikilotherms and homeotherms, including man. Beyond his own research contributions, Irving b...

Grafton E . Burke and Irving

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