| Activity | Date of Birth: 28/03/1926 Date of Death 27 January 2018
Place of Birth: Philadephia, USA
University and Professional Training:
Swarthmore College, BA (Highest Hons) 1949
Oxford University, MSc. 1950
Harvard University, PhD 1953
Professional career:
Part-time Lecturer, Tufts University, 1952
Teaching Assistant, Harvard University, 1952-1953
Research Associate, Inst. of Living, 1952-1955
Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, US National Research Council, 1955-1956
Research Associate, University of Cambridge, 1956-1961
Senior Member, King's College Cambridge, 1960-
Assistant Director of Research, University of Cambridge, 1961-1966
Reader in Physiological Psychology, University of Cambridge, 1966-1967
Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge, 1964-1967
Professor of Psychology, Oxford University, and Fellow, Magdalen College, Oxford 1967-1993
Emeritus Professor, Oxford University, 1993-
Other honours and awards:
Fellow, Royal Society, 1980
Sir Frederick Bartlett Memorial Lecturer, 1980
Kenneth Craik Award, Cambridge 1976
Ferrier Lecturer, Royal Society, 1989
Hughlings Jackson Lecturer/Gold Medallist, Royal Society of Medicine, 1990
Donald Hebb Lecturer, Dalhousie University, 1996
James Drever Memorial Lecturer, Dundee University, 1987
Harry Camp Memorial Lecturer, Stanford University, 1997
Werner Heisenberg Lecturer, Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich 1998
Herbert H.Reynolds Lecturer in History and Philosophy of Science, Baylor University, 1999
John P.McGovern Award Lecturer/Medallist, American Association for Advancement of Science, Boston 2002
J.Z.Young Memorial Lecturer, Oxford, 2002
William James Award, American Psychological Association, 1992
Honorary Doctorate, University of Tilburg, Netherlands, 1997
Involvement with BPS and/or other societies and organisations:
Founding President of the European Brain and Behaviour Society (EBBS) 1969-1970, President EBBS, 1994-1996,
Honorary Member EBBS, 1999-
Member, Council of Royal Society, 1988-1989
Member, US National Academy of Sciences, 1987
Member, Academia Europaea, 1990
Member, International Commission for Bio-Science Grant Program, Tokyo,1988
Member, Science Council, Fyssen Foundation, Paris, 1982-1989
Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich,1985-1989
Delegate, Oxford University Press, 1983-1993
Honorary President, European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 1992-1999
President, Association for Scientific Study of Consciousness, 2001-2002
Honorary Member (past President), Experimental Psychology Society (nd).
Sources: L Weiskrantz's CV.
Compiled by Mike Maskill, BPS Archivist for the History of Psychology Centre. |