Donald Benjamin Benjamin Lindsley

Background

Lindsley, Donald Benjamin was born on December 23, 1907 in Brownhelm, Ohio, United States. Son of Benjamin Kent and Mattie Elizabeth (Jenne) Lindsley.

Education

AB, Wittenberg College (now University), 1929. Honorary Doctor of Science, Wittenberg College (now University), 1959. Master of Arts, University Iowa, 1930.

Doctor of Philosophy, University Iowa, 1932. Doctor of Science (honorary), Brown University, 1958. Doctor of Science (honorary), Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, 1965.

Honorary Doctor of Science, Loyola University Chicago, 1969. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, West Germany, 1977.

Career

Instructor psychology, University of Illinois, 1932-1933; National Research Council fellow, Harvard University Medical School, 1933-1935; research associate, Western Reserve U. Medical School, 1935-1938; assistant professor psychology, Brown U. also director psychological and neurophysiology laboratory, Bradley Hospital, 1938-1946; director war research project on radar operation, Yale, Office of Scientific Research and Development, National Defense Research Committee, Camp Murphy and Boca Raton Air Force Base, Florida, 1943-1945; professor psychology, Northwestern University, 1946-1951; professor psychology, physiology, psychiatry and pediatrics, University of California at Los Angeles, 1951-1977; professor emeritus, University of California at Los Angeles, since 1977; member Brain Research Institute, University of California at Los Angeles, since 1961; department chairman psychology, University of California at Los Angeles, 1959-1962; William James lecturer, Harvard, 1958; University Research lecturer, University of California at Los Angeles, 1960; Phillips lecturer, Haverford College, 1961; Walter B. Pillsbury lecturer psychology, Cornell Univercity, 1963; visiting lecturer, Kansas State University, 1966; visiting lecturer, Texas A & M U., 1980. Member science advisory board United States Air Force, 1947-1949. Undersea warfare committee National Research Council, 1951-1964;consultant National Science Foundation, 1952-1954.

Member mental health study section National Institute of Mental Health, 1953-1957. Neurological study section National Institute Neurological Diseases and Blindness, 1958-1962;consultant Guggenheim Foundation, 1963-1970, member educational advisory board, 1970-1978. Chairman behavioral science training committee National Institute General Medical Sciences, 1966-1969.

Member behavioral biology advisory panel AIBS-National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1966-1971. Member space science board NAS, 1967-1970. Member committee space medicine, 1969-1971.

Member California Legislation Assembly Science and Technology Council, 1970-1971.

Achievements

• Donald Benjamin Lindsley has been listed as a noteworthy physiological psychologist, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Trustee Grass Foundation, 1958-1995, emeritus trustee, since 1996. Member International Organization of Psychophysiology (Century award 1998), National Academy of Sciences (chairman committee long duration missions in space 1967-1972, member space science board), American Psychological Association (Distinguished Science Contribution award 1959), American Physiological Society, Society Experimental Psychologists, American Electroencephalographic Society (president 1964-1965, honorary member since 1980, Herbert Jasper award 1994), American Association for the Advancement of Science (vice president 1954, chairman section J. 1977), Midwest Psychological Association (president 1952), American Academy Cerebral Palsy, We. Society Electroencephalography (honorary member with great distinction, president 1957, Wilder Penfield award and lecturer 1996), We.

Psychological Association (president 1959-1960), American Academy Arts and Sciences, International Brain Research Organization (treasurer 1967-1971), Society Neuroscis. (Donald B. Lindsley prize in behavioral Neuroscience established in his name), Finnish Academy of Science and Letters (foreign member), Sigma Xi, Alpha Omega Alpha, Gamma Alpha, Phi Gamma Delta.

Interests

• Music, photography, gardening, golf, traveling

Connections

Married Ellen Ford, August 16, 1933. Children: David Ford, Margaret, Robert Kent, Sara Ellen.

Father:

Benjamin Kent Lindsley

Mother:

Mattie Elizabeth (Jenne) Lindsley

Spouse:

Ellen Ford

child:

Margaret Lindsley

child:

Sara Ellen Lindsley

child:

Robert Kent Lindsley

child:

David Ford Lindsley