Charles Bachman Moore (1920–2010)

Charles W. Bachman: Database Software Pioneer

Charles W. Bachman was born in Manhattan, Kansas, in 1924 but did not stay there long. His father, a Hall of Fame football coach, moved their family several times before settling in East Lansing, Michigan, for a long spell working at what was then Michigan State College. The younger Bachman retained a lifelong interest in sports, playing on several teams during high school. He earned strong gra...

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Charles Spence

Working at the Crossmodal Research Laboratory in Oxford, Charles Spence tries to apply the latest insights from our growing neuroscience understanding of the rules governing multisensory integration to the design of better products, packages, places, interfaces, and foods, an area that can perhaps best be captured under the title of neuroscience-inspired multisensory design.

Charles Spearman

Few would dispute the claim that Charles Edward Spearman (1863-1945) is Britain’s premier psychologist and indeed one of the enduring figures in the history of behavioral science. Some twenty years ago, I asked a number of psychologists to list the names of whomever they considered to be the five or six most important persons in the history of psychological testing. Among all the nominations, o...

Charles Lyell

Pergamon Press, which has in recent years taken interest in matters neurophysiological, has collected the writings of 56 authors, from many countries, dealing with biochemical, physiological, pharmacological and behavioral aspects of nervous function. Most of the material is a succinct compilation of previously published observations; but some of it, such as the study by Smith, Stacey and Young...