Boynton, Robert M.

Robert Boynton was born in 1924 in Evanston, Illinois. He received his doctorate of philosophy from Brown University in 1952. That same year he started teaching as an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Rochester in New York. Boynton founded the Center for Visual Science in 1963 where he continued his work studying color vision using psychophysics. He joined the faculty at the University of California, San Diego in 1974. Boynton continued working on physiological optics there until he retired in 1991.

From the guide to the Robert Boynton papers, 1957-1990, (Center for the History of Psychology)