Richard Gregory royal institution

Will you please tell me who is the Richard Gregory at the Royal Institution? Provide me the biography of him?

[Kiran Chandar]

Richard Langton Gregory CBE FRS FRSE was a British psychologist and Emeritus Professor of Neuropsychology at the University of Bristol. He was the son of Christopher Clive Langton Gregory.


Date and place of Birth, Parents (English)

24th July 1923. London. Son of Christopher Clive Langton Gregory (Astronomer; first Director of the University of London Observatory), and Helen Patricia (née Gibson)

Education

1931-40
King Alfred School, Hampstead.

1941-47
Served in the R.A.F. during the War. (Signals.)

1946
Posted by the Air Ministry to explain radar and communication systems to the public - in Oxford Street, John Lewis bomb site (4 million visitors in six months).

1947-50
Cambridge University. Downing College. Read Philosophy and Experimental Psychology (by scholarship from the RAF, by "Forces Preliminary" examination).

Honorary Posts

1981-91
Chairman of Trustees and Hon Science Director of the Exploratory.

1991-99
President of the Exploratory.

1989-91
First President of ECSITE. (European Consortium of Science Industry and Technology Exhibitions.) Life member of International Board.

1990-
Member of Board of Management of the McDonnell-Pew Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, Oxford.

1993-
Life Member of Experimental Psychology Society.

1996-
Board of Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Bristol.

1996-99
Member of the Library Committee of the Royal Society.

1996-
Member of the Advisory Board, The British Library.

1997-98
Member At-Bristol Board.

Consultantships (include)

1980-81
Designed the Perception Gallery for the Human Biology exhibition (set up by Roger Miles) the Natural History Museum, South Kensington.

1985-88
Member of the planning committee for 'Launch Pad' Hands-on gallery, the Science Museum, London.

1998-99
"Godfather" to the Mind Zone of the Millennium Dome, Greenwich.

2000-
Wolfsburgh Science Centre, Germany.

Books
Recovery from Early Blindness: A case Study. With Jean Wallace. (1963) Exp. Soc. Monogr. No.2. Cambridge: Heffers
Eye and Brain: The Psychology of Seeing (1966). London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. [In twelve languages]. Second Edition (1972). Third Edition (1977). Fourth Edition (1990). USA: Princeton University Press; (1994) Oxford: Oxford University Press.; Fifth Edition (1997) Oxford University Press and (1998) Princeton University Press.
The Intelligent Eye (1970). London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. [In 6 languages].
Illusion in Nature and Art. (1973). Edited with Sir Ernst Gombrich. London: Duckworth.
Concepts and Mechanisms of Perception (1974) London: Duckworth. [Collected papers].
Mind in Science: A History of Explanations of Psychology and Physics (1981). London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson; USA: CUP. Paperback, Peregrine (1984). (Macmillan Scientific Book Club choice). Transl. Italian, La Mente nella, Scienze, Mondador (1985).
Odd Perceptions [Essays]. (1986). London: Methuen. Paperback (1988) Routledge. (2nd edition 1990-91).
Hands-On Science: an introduction to the Bristol Exploratory (1986). London: Duckworth. (Forward by Sir George Porter, PRS. Contributions by Francis Evans and James Dalgety).
Creative Intelligences (1987). Edited with Pauline Marstrand. London: Francis Pinter.
Oxford Companion to the Mind (1987). Oxford: OUP. [Translated into Italian, French, Spanish. In TSP Softbacks, and other Book Clubs]. Paperback 1998.
Evolution of the Eye and Visual System (1992) Edited with John R Cronly-Dillon. Vol 2 of Vision and Visual Dysfuction. London: Macmillan.
Even Odder Perceptions (1993). [Essays]. London: Routledge.
The Artful Eye (1995) Edited with J.Harris, P.Heard and D. Rose. Oxford: OUP
Mirrors in Mind (1997). Oxford: W.H.Freeman/Spektrum. (1998) Penguin.
The Mind Makers (1998). London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
Oxford Companion to the Mind (2nd Edition) (2004) Oxford: OUP
Seeing Through Illusions (2009) Oxford: OUP