| DatesAndPlaces | MRC Applied Psychology Unit, Cambridge, 1950-1967
University Demonstrator then Lecturer, Dept.of Experimental Psychology, Cambridge,1953-1967
Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 1962-1967
Visiting Professor at University of California Los Angeles, 1963
Visiting Professor, MIT 1964
Visitng Professor, University of New York, 1966
University of Edinburgh, 1967-1970,
University of Bristol (funded by MRC), 1970-1988
Summer at Bell Telephone Laboratories, New Jersey, 1973
British Council Lecturer, Southern India, 1987
Professor Emeritus: University of Bristol, 1988
Osher Visiting Fellow, the Exploratorium, San Francisco, 1989
Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship, 1992-1994
Senior Research Fellow, University of Bristol, 1995-. |
| Activity | Date of Birth: 24/07/1923
Date of Death: 17/05/2010
University and Professional Training:
M.A. (Cantab), Downing College (by scholarship from RAF), 1947-1950
D.Sc. (Bristol), 1983
Honorary degrees:
D.Univ. Open, 1990
D.Univ. Stirling, 1990
LL.D Bristol, 1993
D.Sc. East Anglia, 1996
D.Sc. Exeter, 1996
D.Univ.York, 1998
D.Sc. U.M.I.S.T., 1998
D.Sc.Keele, 1999
D.Sc. Edinburgh
Professional career:
Served in the RAF, Signals, 1941-1947
Research Worker, MRC Applied Psychology Unit, Cambridge, 1950-1953
University Demonstrator then Lecturer, Dept.of Experimental Psychology, Cambridge,1953-1967
Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 1962-1967
Visiting Professor at University of California Los Angeles, 1963
Visiting Professor, MIT 1964
Visitng Professor, University of New York, 1966
Co-founder, Deaprtment of Machine Intelligence and Perception, in the University of Edinburgh, 1967-1970, Professor of Bionics, Department Chairman, 1968-1970
Professor of Neuropsychology, and Director of the Brain and Perception Laboratory, The Medical School, University of Bristol (funded by MRC), 1970-1988
Summer at Bell Telephone Laboratories, New Jersey, 1973
British Council Lecturer, Southern India, 1987
Retired from Personal Chair, 1988
Professor Emeritus: University of Bristol, 1988
Osher Visiting Fellow, the Exploratorium, San Francisco, 1989
Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship, 1992-1994
Senior Research Fellow, University of Bristol, 1995-
Other Honours and Awards:
Craik Prize for Physiological Psychology, St John's College, Cambridge, 1958
CIBA Foundation Senior International Research Prize, 1959
Waverley Gold Medal (for inventing Sold-Image Microscope), 1960
Fellow, Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1969
Freedom of the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers, City of London, 1979
Silvanus Thompson Medal, 1986
BAA Television Award, for presenting Byline: Blind to Science, 1989
Commander of The British Empire (CBE), HMQ, 1989
Capire International Prize, Prato-Firenze Italy, 1990
Primo Rovis Prize, Trieste Italy, 1991
Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of London, 1992
Royal Society, Michael Faraday Medal, 1992
Lord Crook Gold Medal, from the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers, 1996
Fellow, Institute of Physics, 1999
Hughling Jackson Gold Medal, from the Royal Society of Medicine, 1999
Simonyi Lecture, Deaprtment Public Understanding of Science, Oxford, 2000
Medawar Lecture (Royal Society Prize Lecture), 2000
Lecture to the Pontifical Council, the Vatican, 2000
Involvement with BPS and/or other societies and organisations:
Founder Member of the Experimental Psychological Society (1953)
President, 1981-2. Life Member, 1993 -
Member, Royal Institution of London., 1960, Manager, 1972-1975 , Member of Council 1991-1994, Vice President, 1992-1995
Chairman Humphry Davy Committee, 1975
President of Section 'J' (Psychology) British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1976
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. (Christmas Lectures (1970), 1980-1994
Fellow of the British Psychological Society, 1981
President of Section X (General Section) the BAA, 1986
Founder-President of Section Q (History of Science), the BAA, 1989
President of Section Q, the BAA (for second term), 1990
The Athenaeum, London, 1990
Elected Member of Royal Society Dining Club, 1994
Honorary Fellow of the British Psychological Society, 2000.
Sources: R L Gregory's CV.
Compiled by Mike Maskill, BPS Archivist for the History of Psychology Centre. |