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Dr.
Neal Miller
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4 November 2000, the millennial ANDP Award in Neuroscience Education was
presented to Neal E. Miller.
Professor Miller was born in Milwaukee in
1909. He received a B.S. degree from the University of Washington
(1931), an M.S. from Stanford University (1932), and a Ph.D. degree in
Psychology from Yale University (1935). He was a social science
research fellow at the Institute of Psychoanalysis in Vienna for one
year (1935-36) before returning to Yale as a faculty member in 1936.
He spent 30 years at Yale University (1936-1966), where he became the
James Rowland Angell Professor of Psychology, and 15 more years at
Rockefeller University (1966-1981) before becoming Professor Emeritus at
Rockefeller (1981-) and Research Affiliate at Yale (1985- ).
Professor Miller has been a celebrated
scientific investigator for decades; he is certainly among the most
accomplished behavioral neuroscientists of the 20th century. He
has been acclaimed for his pioneering studies of motivation, learning
and reward, and also for his monumental contributions to the study of
learned changes in visceral responding and the application of
biofeedback to behavioral medicine. He was elected a member of the
National Academy of Science in 1958 and a Fellow of the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences in 1961. Throughout his career his scientific
achievements have been recognized in numerous prestigious awards, most
notably the National Medal of Science, the highest scientific honor
given in the U.S. which he received from President Lyndon Johnson in
1964. His achievements also were recognized in many other ways by
his peers, who showed their appreciation of his wisdom and leadership
skills by selecting him as a member of the Board of Scientific
Counselors at three separate institutes of the NIH, by selecting him to
chair the NAS/NRC committee on brain sciences that led to the formation
of the Society for Neuroscience, and by electing him President of the
American Psychological Association (1960-61) and of the Society for
Neuroscience (1971-72).
In his 45 years at Yale and Rockefeller
Universities, Professor Miller inspired ~150 graduate students,
postdoctoral fellows, and undergraduate students who worked with him in
his lab. Among his extended scientific family are three members of
the National Academy of Science: Gordon Bower, a former graduate
student; Bruce McEwen, a former postdoctoral fellow who was president of
the ANDP and of the Society for Neuroscience; and Leslie Ungerlieder, a
former student of a former student (Ted Coons).
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