Released album “Come What May”.
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Wolfgang Köhler
Wolfgang Köhler was a German psychologist and phenomenologist who, like Max Wertheimer and Kurt Koffka, contributed to the creation of Gestalt psychology.
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science · German-American psychologist and phenomenologist · psychologist · university teacher · philosopher · film producer · director · scientist · also Wolfgang Köhler, Köhler
Born 21 January 1887 · Died 11 June 1967 · Q213672
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Released album “The Bottom End - Big Bottom, No End”.
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2011· 1 entry
Published “The ERA‐Interim reanalysis: configuration and performance of the data assimilation system” in Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society — cited 20,719 times.
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2007· 1 entry
Released album “Duo Divan”.
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2002· 1 entry
Ranked Köhler as the 50th most cited psychologist of the 20th century
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1975· 1 entry
Published “Continuous cultures of fused cells secreting antibody of predefined specificity” in Nature — cited 13,446 times.
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1967· 2 entries
Died 1967-06-11.
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The Association planned to give him its gold medal, but he died before it could be awarded
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1962· 1 entry
Won Wilhelm Wundt Medal (1962).
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1959· 1 entry
Career landmark: President of the American Psychological Association (1959–1959).
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1956· 2 entries
Awarded APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology (1956).
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Became a research professor at Dartmouth College
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1947· 1 entry
Won Howard Crosby Warren Medal (1947).
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1935· 1 entry
Left the country for the United States, where Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania offered him a professorship
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1933· 2 entries
The Nazi government demanded that professors begin their lectures by giving the Nazi salute
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Köhler wrote an article titled "Gespräche in Deutschland" (Conversations in Germany)
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1927· 1 entry
Married Lili Harlemann by whom he had a daughter, Karin (born 1928)
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1920· 1 entry
And was appointed the acting director, and then (as Carl Stumpf's successor) professor and director of the Psychological Institute at the University of Berlin, where he remained until 1935
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1913· 1 entry
Köhler left Frankfurt for the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands, where he had been named the director of the Prussian Academy of Sciences anthropoid research station
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1909· 1 entry
Studied at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, doctorate (1909).
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1887· 1 entry
Born 1887-01-21.
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