Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.
Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA; email:
Annu Rev Vis Sci. 2019 Sep 15;5:1-13. doi: 10.1146/annurev-vision-011019-111539. Epub 2019 Jul 5.
We are sad to report that Professor Jacob (Jack) Nachmias passed away on March 2, 2019. Nachmias was born in Athens, Greece, on June 9, 1928. To escape the Nazis, he and his family came to the United States in 1939. He received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University and then an MA from Swarthmore College, where he worked with Hans Wallach and Wolfgang Kohler; his PhD in Psychology was from Harvard University. Nachmias spent the majority of his career as a Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. He made fundamental contributions to our understanding of vision, most notably through the study of eye movements, the development of signal detection theory and forced-choice psychophysical methods, and the psychophysical characterization of spatial-frequency-selective visual channels. Nachmias' work was recognized by his election to the National Academy of Sciences and receipt of the Optical Society's Tillyer Award.
我们沉痛地宣布，雅各布（杰克）·纳赫米亚斯教授于 2019 年 3 月 2 日逝世。纳赫米亚斯 1928 年 6 月 9 日出生于希腊雅典。为了躲避纳粹，他和家人于 1939 年来到美国。他本科毕业于康奈尔大学，后在斯沃斯莫尔学院获得硕士学位，期间师从汉斯·沃拉赫和沃尔夫冈·科勒；他的心理学博士学位则来自哈佛大学。纳赫米亚斯职业生涯的大部分时间都在宾夕法尼亚大学担任心理学教授。他通过研究眼球运动、发展信号检测理论和强制选择心理物理学方法，以及对空间频率选择性视觉通道的心理物理学特征进行研究，为我们对视觉的理解做出了基础性的贡献。纳赫米亚斯的工作得到了广泛认可，他当选为美国国家科学院院士，并获得了光学学会的蒂利尔奖。
