Famed social psychologist Robert Zajonc has died. Here is the NYT obit:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/07/education/07zajonc.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries

Here's something you probably didn't know about him:
"In 1939, after the Nazis invaded Poland and headed toward [Zajons' 
hometown of] Lodz, he and his parents fled to Warsaw. There, the 
building in which they were staying was bombed, and Robert’s parents 
were killed. Robert woke up in a hospital, seriously injured. He 
attended an underground university in Warsaw before being dispatched to 
a labor camp in Germany. He escaped and, recaptured, was sent to a 
political prison in France. Escaping again, he joined the French 
Resistance and studied at the University of Paris. Reaching England in 
1944, he worked as a translator for American forces in the European 
campaign."

Chris
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Christopher D. Green
Department of Psychology
York University
Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
Canada

 

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