Title: |
Robert M. Boynton papers |
Repository: |
Drs. Nicholas and Dorothy Cummings Center for the History of Psychology
Phone: 330-972-7285 http://www.uakron.edu/chp |
Creator: |
Boynton, Robert M. |
Dates: |
1957-1990 |
Quantity: |
0.75 linear feet |
Abstract: |
Founder of the Center for Visual Science, Robert Boynton contributed work on physiological optics to the fields of psychology and visual perception. This small collection contains some of this work in the form annotated papers that Boynton authored as well as reports he completed for the U. S. Air Force. |
Identification: |
p15960coll10/id/61 |
Location: |
Boxes M3421-M3422 |
Language: |
The records are in English |
Robert Boynton was born in 1924 in Evanston, Illinois. He received his doctorate of philosophy from Brown University in 1952. That same year he started teaching as an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Rochester in New York. Boynton founded the Center for Visual Science in 1963 where he continued his work studying color vision using psychophysics. He joined the faculty at the University of California, San Diego in 1974. Boynton continued working on physiological optics there until he retired in 1991.
This very small collection consists of reports Boynton completed for the U.S. Air Force, his annotated visual science papers and reprints of papers that he published. Also of interest are histories Boynton wrote of institutions he was associated with, his autobiography, and other biographical information.
The researcher assumes full responsibility for observing all copyright, property, and libel laws as they apply.
There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes, and the collection is open to the public.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Cite as: [identification of item], [folder number, box number], Archives of the History of American Psychology, The Drs. Nicholas and Dorothy Cummings Center for the History of Psychology - The University of Akron
The Robert Boynton papers were acquired by the Center for the History of Psychology from Robert Boynton in 2001.