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The Macy Conference Attendees
ABOUT THIS SUMMARY   On this webpage we provide:

  • A set of names, fields, and available photographs for the original core group, consisting of the 1942 Cerebral Inhibition Meeting attendees and others added in 1946.
  • A similar set of citations and available photographs for subsequent members of the core group
  • A summary listing of the 40+ guests who attended and/or made presentations at the 10 Macy Conferences.
     
The
'Core Group'
Original Members
From the 1942 Meeting

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Frank Fremont-Smith
Medicine / Macy
 


Lawrence K. Frank
Social Science
Warren McCulloch
Neuropsychiatry
Margaret Mead / Gregory Bateson
Anthropology / Anthropology
Arturo Rosenblueth
Physiology
 
The
'Core Group'
Additional Members
 
Scholars Joining the 1942 Group to Form the Macy 'Core Group'
julian bigelow
Electrical Engineering
Rafael Lorente de Nó
Neurophysiology
Walter Pitts
Mathematics
Ralph W. Gerard
Neurophysiology
 
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Gerhardt von Bonin
Neuroanatomy

Molly Harrower
Psychology
 


George Evelyn Hutchinson
Ecology
Heinrich Klüver
Psychology
Paul Lazarsfeld
Sociology
Kurt Lewin
Psychology
 
Lawrence S. Kubie
Psychiatry
 
Filmer S. C. Northrop
Philosophy
 
John von Neumann
Mathematics
Leonard J. Savage
Mathematics
Norbert Wiener
Mathematics
The
'Core Group'
Later Members

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Alex Bavelas
Social Psychology
 
Donald Marquis
Psychology
 


Henry Brosin
Psychiatry
Heinz von Foerster
Electrical Engineering
Theodore Schneirla
Comparative Psychology
Hans Lukas Teuber
Psychology
Guest Attendees
at the
Macy Conferences
 

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Final Conference
  • Harold Abramson
    (Medicine)
     
  • Nathan Ackerman
    (Psychiatry)
     
  • Vahe Amassian
    (Neurophysiology)
     
  • W. Ross Ashby
    (Psychiatry)
     
  • Yehoshua Bar-Hillel
    (Mathematical Logic)
     
  • Morris Bender
    (Neurophysiology)
     
  • Herbert Birch
    (Animal Psychology)
     
  • John Bowman
    (Sociology?)
     
  • Frederick Bremer
    (Neurophysiology)
     
  • Yuen Ren Chao
    (Linguistics)
     
  • Eilhardt von Domarus
    (Neuropsychiatry)
     
  • Max Delbrück
    (Biophysics)
     
  • Jan Droogleever-Fortuyn
    (Neuropsychology)
     
  • Erik Erikson
    (Psychoanalysis)
     
  • Leon Festinger
    (Social Psychology)
  • Frederick Fitch
    (Logic)
     
  • Roman Jakobson
    (Linguistics)
     
  • Clyde Kluckhohn
    (Anthropology)
     
  • Wolfgang Köhler
    (Psychology)
     
  • Dorothy Lee
    (Anthropology)
     
  • Joseph Licklider
    (Psychology)
     
  • Howard Liddell
    (Psychology)
     
  • Donald Lindsley
    (Psychology)
     
  • William Livingston
    (Medicine)
     
  • David Lloyd
    (Neurophysiology)
     
  • John Lotz
    (Linguistics)
     
  • Duncan Luce
    (Psychology)
     
  • Donald MacKay
    (Physics)
     
  • Turner McLardy
    (Neuropsychiatry)
     
  • Frederick Mettler
    (Anatomy)
  • Marcel Monnier
    (Medicine)
     
  • Charles Morris
    (Linguistics)
     
  • Henry Quastler
    (Medicine)
    (Computer Engineering)
     
  • Juan Garcia Ramos
    (???)
     
  • Antoine Remond
    (Neurophysiology)
     
  • David M. Rioch
    (Psychiatry)
     
  • Ivor Richards
    (Literary critic)
     
  • Claude Shannon
    (Engineering)
     
  • John Stroud
    (Psychology)
     
  • Mottram Torre
    (Personnel Management)
     
  • William Grey-Walter
    (Neurology)
     
  • Heinz Werner
    (Developmental Psychology)
     
  • Jerome Wiesner
    (Computer Engineering)
     
  • John Z. Young
    (Neuroanatomy)
   
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