| Code | BPS/GB/199 |
| Name | Miller; George Armitage (1920-2012); Professor |
| Title | Professor |
| Forenames | George Armitage |
| Surname | Miller |
| Dates | 1920-2012 |
| Parallel Name | G.A.Miller |
| Gender | Male |
| Nationality | American |
| DatesAndPlaces | New York, , 1968
Princeton University, 1969- |
| Address | New York |
| Activity | Born February 3, 1920, in Charleston, West Virginia.
Died: July 22, 2012 in Plainsboro, New Jersey.
University:
BA, University of Alabama 1940
Ph.D. in Psychology from Harvard University, 1946
Career:
The Rockefeller University in New York, Professor of Experimental Psychology, 1968
Princeton University, University Professor of Psychology, 1969- Emeritus.
Established the Princeton Cognitive Science Laboratory, 1986
Program Director of the McDonnell-Pew Program in Cognitive Neuroscience, 1989 to 1994
Consultant to the Sloan Foundation (nd)
Awards and Honours:
“The Science of Words,” won the William James Book Award from Division 1 of the American Psychological Association, 1990
The National Medal of Science awarded by President Bush, 1991
Elected President of the American Psychological Association., 1969
Elected to the National Academy of Science,1962.
Sources: http://www.kurzweilai.net/george-a-miller
Compiled by Mike Maskill, BPS Archivist for the History of Psychology Centre. |
| PublishedWorks | Selected Publications:
Miller, G. A. (1956). "The magical number seven, plus or minus two: Some limits on our capacity for processing information". Psychological Review 63 (2): 81–97 |
| Source | http://www.kurzweilai.net/george-a-miller |
| Conventions | International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN ISBN 0-9696035-3-3
National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 |
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