Background
HELD, Richard was born on October 10, 1922 in New York, United States.
HELD, Richard was born on October 10, 1922 in New York, United States.
Bachelor, Columbia University, 1943; Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Columbia University, 1944; Master of Arts in Psychology, Swarthmore College, 1948; Doctor of Philosophy in Experimental Psychology, Harvard University, 1952; D of Ocular Science (honorary), New England College Optometry, 1977.
Research assistant department psychology, Swarthmore (Pennsylvania) College, 1946-1948;
New York Zoological Society research fellow, Jackson Hole (Wyoming) Wildlife Park, 1948;
research assistant, teaching fellow, postdoctoral National Institutes of Health fellow Department Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1949-1953;
instructor, assistant professor, associate professor to professor psychology, department chairman, Brandeis U., Waltham, Massachusetts, 1953-1962;
National Science Foundation senior research fellow, visiting professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1962-1963;
professor experimental psychology department brain and cognitive science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, since 1963;
department chairman psychology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1977-1986. Board directors Sinauer Associations, Inc., Transkinetics, Inc. Associate Neuroscis. Research Program, Boston, since 1978.
Executive Committee International Neuropsychology Symposium, 1976. Member McLean Hospital Science Advisory Committee, since 1979.
Served to Lieutenant United States Navy, 1944-1946. Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Academy Optometry, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Psychological Association (member committee 1970-1973, board science affairs 1967-1970, president Executive Committee 1977-1978), Eastern Psychological Association (board directors 1969-1972). Member Association of Mems. of Institute for Advanced Study, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Inc., International Brain Research Organisation, International Neuropsychol.
Symposium, International Society Developmental Psychobiology, National Academy Sciences, Psychonomic Society, Society Neuroscis., Society Experimental Psychologists, National Institutes of Health (experimental psychology study section chairman 1966-1968), Armed ForcesNat. Research Council (commission on vision since 1965), Sigma Xi.
M. Doris Bernays, June 29, 1951. Children: Lucas, Julia, Andrew.