The Macy Conferences
Sponsored by the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, in 1942 and from 1946 to 1953.
Original members (with birth dates)
at the crucial meeting of March 8-9, 1946
(from Steve Heims, 1991; pp. 285-286):
- Gregory Bateson, social science (1904)
- Julian H. Bigelow, engineering (1913)
- Gerhardt von Bonin, neuroanatomy (1890)
- Lawrence K. Frank, social science (1890)
- Frank Fremont-Smith, medicine (1895)
- Ralph W. Gerard, neurophysiology (1900)
- Molly Harrower, psychology (1906)
- George Evelyn Hutchinson, ecology (1903)
- Heinrich Kluver, psychology (1897)
- Lawrence S. Kubie, psychiatry (1896)
- Paul Lazarsfeld, sociology (1901)
- Kurt Lewin, social psychology (1890)
- Rafael Lorente de No, neurophysiology (1902)
- Warrren McCulloch, neurophysiology (1899)
- Margaret Mead, anthropology (1901)
- John von Neumann, mathematics (1903)
- Filmer S. C. Northrop, philosophy (1893)
- Walter Pitts, mathematics (1923)
- Arturo Rosenblueth, physiology (1900)
- Leonard J. Savage, mathematics (1917)
- Norbert Wiener, mathematics (1894)
Later members and guests included: Heinz von Foerster,
W. Ross Ashby, Claude E. Shannon, W. Grey Walter,
Jerome B. Wiesner, and others.
Revised 04 July 2002 by Ralph Abraham,
<abraham@vismath.org>
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