Profile: Richard Robertson

Your personal background.
Prof. Emeritus, psychology, Northeastern Univ. Chicago, Il. Ph.D. Human Development, U. Chicago, 1960. Graduate of U. Chicago college '48. Acquired interest in all the sciences through Hutchins Plan integrated science courses. Special interests: cosmology, space exploration, control-theory pschological research.

Editor/author, "Introduction to Modern Psychology: the Control Theory View," 1990, Benchmark Publications; Author, "Perception of Reality and the Fate of a Civilization," 2003, Ex Libris.

Born, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, 1926 Served USN 1944-1946.
Age, 79. Father of four, grandfather of nine. Wife, Vivian D. Maki

Hobbies: sailing, tennis, writing, classical music, theatre, travel.

Opinion: I think the U.S. in danger of losing its leadership role in world betterment. Also think wider acquaintance with Perceptual Control Theory will ultimately contribute to clearer thinking about problem solving of major problems.
Your opinions about Einstein@Home
1. It's little enough to contribute my free ram to any possible progress in science.
2. Don't know much about it yet. I'm a Seti-at-home contributor of the now exiting program.
3. None yet. Just glad to be a small part of it
Your feedback on this profile
Recommend this profile for User of the Day:I like this profile
Alert administrators to an offensive profile:I don't like this profile
Account dataView
CsapatSemmi


Return to Einstein@Home main page

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant NSF-0200852 and by the Max Planck Gesellschaft (MPG). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the investigators and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF or the MPG.

Copyright © 2009 Bruce Allen for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration