A Conversation with Jacob Nachmias
| Autor: | David H. Brainard, Jacob Nachmias, J. Anthony Movshon, Brian A. Wandell |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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05 social sciences Art history Nazism Biography Spatial frequency channels 050105 experimental psychology 03 medical and health sciences Ophthalmology 0302 clinical medicine 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Conversation Neurology (clinical) 030217 neurology & neurosurgery media_common |
| Zdroj: | Annual Review of Vision Science. 5:1-13 |
| ISSN: | 2374-4650 2374-4642 |
| DOI: | 10.1146/annurev-vision-011019-111539 |
| Popis: | We are sad to report that Professor Jacob (Jack) Nachmias passed away on March 2, 2019. Nachmias was born in Athens, Greece, on June 9, 1928. To escape the Nazis, he and his family came to the United States in 1939. He received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University and then an MA from Swarthmore College, where he worked with Hans Wallach and Wolfgang Kohler; his PhD in Psychology was from Harvard University. Nachmias spent the majority of his career as a Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. He made fundamental contributions to our understanding of vision, most notably through the study of eye movements, the development of signal detection theory and forced-choice psychophysical methods, and the psychophysical characterization of spatial-frequency-selective visual channels. Nachmias' work was recognized by his election to the National Academy of Sciences and receipt of the Optical Society's Tillyer Award. |
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