Background
Halstead, Ward Campbell was born on December 31, 1908 in Sciotoville, Ohio, United States. Son of Ward Beecher and Fannie (Campbell) Halstead.
Halstead, Ward Campbell was born on December 31, 1908 in Sciotoville, Ohio, United States. Son of Ward Beecher and Fannie (Campbell) Halstead.
Student Miami University, 1925-1927. Bachelor of Arts, Ohio University, 1930. Master of Arts, Ohio State University, 1931.
Doctor of Philosophy, Northwesktern University, 1935.
National Research fellow, University of Chicago, 1935.
1 son, Mark Beecher. Instructor in experimental psychology, department of medicine, University of Chicago, 1936-1939. Assistant professor and associate member Otho South America Sprague Memorial Institute, University of Chicago, 1939-1943, associate professor, 1943-1946, professor experimental psychology, department of medicine, 1946-1969, director psychology section, chairman of the section biopsychology, 1953. Consultant in neurology and blindness National Institutions of Health, 1953-1969.
Visiting professor psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1947, Berkeley, 1949.
Special lectureships: Hixon Symposium on Brain Mechanisms, California Institute Technology, 1948. Nineteenth James Arthur lecture, American Museum of Natural History, 1950.
Member of committee on psychiatry, National Research Council, 1947-1953. Member American Psychological Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Physiological Society, American Neurological Association, Society of Biological Psychiatry, Midwestern Psychological Association Chicago Neurological Association Chicago Institute of Medicine.
Married Elizabeth Lee, December 6, 1932.