Forrest Lee Dimmick papers, 1911-1968.

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Forrest Lee Dimmick papers, 1911-1968.

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Professional papers include correspondence with Karl M. Dallenbach, Edwin G. Boring, and other participants from the Inter-Society Color Council concerning his research in vision, particularly color vision, night vision, visual acuity, and color aptitude testing; newsletters, color swatches, and testing materials concerning his work (1940+) with Carl Foss and other members of the Inter-Society Color Council on the development of the Color Aptitude Test (CAT), a project sponsored by the Federation of Societies for Paint Technology; correspondence, minutes and pamphlets, 1955-1967, concerning the work that Dimmick, Foss, and Deane B. Judd did as members of the Committee on Uniform Color Scales of the Optical Society of America and for the National Bureau of Standards; correspondence, notes, and reports, 1964-1967, concerning his retirement activities as a consultant for the Biological Science Communications Project; papers concerning Dimmick's color specifications research based on "Just Noticeable Differences of Hue;" papers concerning his biographical research on his former professor, Edward Bradford Titchener; letters from Titchener to Dimmick and Mrs. Dimmick; recorded interview with Harry P. Weld, a Titchener colleague, and genealogical tables of the Titchener family. Personal papers include family letters; photographs; and other material belonging to Dimmick or his wife, Claire Comstock Dimmick.

7 cubic ft.

Cornell University Library

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Cornell University Library

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Boring, Edwin Garrigues, 1886-1968

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Boring taught psychology at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Edwin Garrigues Boring, 1919-1969 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972982 ...

Weld, Harry Porter (1877-1958).

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Judd, Deane Brewster, 1900-1972

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Dallenbach, Karl M., 1887-1971

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Psychologist, professor. Cornell University Ph.D. 1913; Karl M. Dallenbach taught at Ohio State University from 1915 to 1916, and at Cornell from 1916 to 1948. He left Cornell, and taught at the University of Texas until his retirement in 1969. He became editor of the American Journal of Psychology in 1926 and remained editor until 1967. Dallenbach authored more than 400 articles and monographs on such subjects as sensation, attention, perception, cutaneous sensibility, ...

Titchener, Edward Bradford, 1867-1927

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Professor of Psychology, Cornell University. From the description of Edward Bradford Titchener papers, 1887-1940. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63933942 ...

Foss, Carl E.

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Dimmick, Claire Comstock.

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Federation of Societies for Paint Technology.

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Biological Science Communications Projects.

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Dimmick, Forrest Lee.

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Psychologist. Forrest Lee Dimmick, Cornell University Class of 1915, Ph.D. 1920, was a psychologist and a professor at the University of Michigan, 1921-1925. He taught at Hobart College from 1925-1947, and was head of the Vision Branch of the Naval Medical Research Laboratory, Groton, Connecticut, 1947-1963. From the description of Forrest Lee Dimmick papers, 1911-1968. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 77010624 ...

Inter-Society Color Council

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The Inter-Society Color Council was organized on February 26, 1931 to coordinate the activities of leading technical societies relating to the description, specification, and standardization of color and promote the practical application of this knowledge in science, art, and industry. There are currently more than 30 national associations and technical societies participating in the ISCC. The delegations appointed by these member-bodies represent the fields of science and technolog...