Links and information on famous old guys

Overview

1. History of Psychology: Descartes to James

2. Milestones in Neuroscience.
3. Early neurosurgery: The lobotomy

4. Biographies and links (page at Muskingum college)

Individuals

1. Leibniz (1646-1716), early linguist, major philosopher, and co-inventor of calculus

2. Descartes (1596-1650)
3. Julien Offray de la Mettrie (1709-1751)
4. Paul Broca (1824-1880)
5. Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (1821-1894)
6. William James (1842-1910) -- an overview.
7. William James His papers and life

8. Jean Piaget(1896-1980)

9. Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934)>>
10. Vannevar Bush (1890-1974) (text of his 1945 "As we may think")
11. Alan Turing (1912-1954)
12. J.B. Watson (1878-1958) (o.k. infamous, too)
13. Not here? Try finding them here! (A & E's biography website)

14. Abraham Maslow (Student of Harlow, and author of a number of papers on nonhuman primates, as well as his more noted "humanistic" psychology.