Brown University - Liber Brunensis Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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THE BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES are not restricted by any means, and Harold Schlossberg, Edgar J. Marston Professor of Psychol- oqy, is one of Brown's many experimental psychologists who have kept this mind science in the good graces of the older science. Dr. Schlossberg, who is also chairman of the Department, is infer- nationally known for his pioneer work in the conditioned reflex, his research on visual perception, and in the facial expression of emotions. In 1938 he and R S Woodworth published Experi- mental Peychology which s ' the Bible fo studenis in fhe field. Presently on the editorial boards of two reviews of psychol- ogy, Dr. Schlossberg has held high positions in several of the many learned organizations to which he belongs. Last summer he received a grant to study psychological laboratories in Russia. Working in the more acceptable' areas of biology, Dr. William Montagna, L. Herbert Ballou Professor, was cited as 'one of the leading anatomists in America' in 1960 by his alma mater Bethany College. His world-wide recognition derives from his research of problems in the biology of skin. He is known locelly by ol pre- meds for his Comp Anat' course and his work with apes and various related animals. Author of two major books and innumer able papers and editor of several more, he holds memberships in over fen important scientific organizations. and societies. He received the 1957 Award of the Society of Cosmetic Chemists for the most outstanding contribution in skin biclogy and the Gold Award of the American Academy of Dermatology and Siphilology.

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chaired faculty WIDELY RECOGNIZED in the field of experimental psychology, Dr. Carl Pfaffman's interests have lead him to pay particular attention to motiva tional studies of the nervous system and its reactions in relation to the senses of taste and smell. Because of his ex- cellent contributions to the field he became the 1961 recipient of the How ard Crosby Warren Medal. His various achievements have been further recog- nized and rewarded by the 960-6 Guggenheim Fellowship which will per- mit him a year of study in Europe. Born in Brooklyn, Professor Pfaffman received his Ph.D. from Brown in 1933 and, since, has done research work at New College, Oxford and Cambridge. After working at Brown for a few years, the war interrupted his teaching career and in 1942 he became an avistion psychologist in the navy. Returning in 45 he was named assistant professor and has been a full professor since 1951, adding distinction and credit o himself and his university. Also actively carrying on research in psychology, Dr. Lorrin A. Riggs left is another inter nationally known faculty member, Pro fessor Riggs has carried on extensive research in the study of the human eye, and was awarded the Howard Crosby Warren Medal in 1957, n 1933 D, Riggs graduated from Dartmouth, con- tinuing his studies at Clark University. Active in the navy during the war, he pursued his work in the field of vision. Since his return tfo Brown, he has writ- ten seversl important papers in pro- fessional journals,

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CANCER RESEARCHER J. Walter Wilson has been associated with Brown ever since his frech. man year in 1914, Since his nemination as Frank L Day Professor of Biology in 1944, he served ac Department chairman. n addition to being active in the LS Public Health Service, he was named by the U.S. Surgeon General fo the National Coun. cil on Health Research Facilities in 1956 and fo the National Advisory Cancer Council in 1960, He is largely responsible for the national reputation which the Biology Department enjove, Dr. Herman B. Chase, a recognized authority on the effects of radiation on living tissue, was named Robert P. Brown Professor of Bioloay in 1960, A member of the American Society of Zoologists, the Seclety for the Study of Development and Growth the Society for the Study of Evolution, the American Association for the advancement of Science and the Radiation Research Society, he has conducted extensive resesrch in radiation biology both in thic country and abroad.