biography
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| (1914–45)
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| biography:
| British experimental psychologist. He studied at Edinburgh and Cambridge, and spent much of World War 2 on applied military research on topics which included servo-mechanisms and ‘human factors’ in design. In 1944 he was appointed director of the new Unit for Research in Applied Psychology at Cambridge. He pioneered the psychological school of thought in which the mind is considered as a complex example of an information-processing system. He died tragically young following a cycling accident. |
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