Blackwell, H. Richard (Harold Richard), 1921-

H. Richard Blackwell was born on January 16, 1921 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He earned a B.S. in philosophy from Haverford College in 1941, an A.M. in psychology from Brown University in 1942, and a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Michigan in 1947.

H Richard Blackwell became a resident psychologist at the Polaroid Corporation in 1943. He was selected through the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to head the Tiffany Foundation, a vision research project designed for military applications, from 1943 until 1945. He was awarded the Army-Navy Certificate of Appreciation in 1947 for this work. He also served as the executive secretary of the Armed Forces-National Research Counsel Vision Committee from 1945 until 1955. Blackwell became a faculty member at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1948 and developed the Vision Research Laboratory. In 1958, he left the University of Michigan and accepted a position at the Ohio State University, Columbus. Blackwell held the titles of Director of the Institute for Research in Vision, Professor of Biophysics, Professor of Physiological Optics in Optometry, and Research Professor of Ophthalmology at Ohio State. He retired in 1983 as professor emeritus in the College of Optometry.

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