Changing the title because this is about footnotes, not about How to search.

And trimming tails, while I am at it.

On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 7:34 AM, Paul Mike Zender <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
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> While working on a book about icons this fall I looked up a reference by a
> new author (to me), Paul Kolers, who wrote "Some Formal Characteristics of
> Pictograms" in 1969 in American Scientist. He was a celebrated scientist
> that until then I was unfamiliar with (shame on me). With a bit more
> digging I learned that Paul had co-authored a book with Merald Worlstad,
> founding editor of Visible Language, the journal I edit. That's what I mean
> by making new friends and encountering old ones, which to me, is great fun,
> one of the best parts of scholarship.
>

​Nice note.I was a good friend of his at my first job after the PhD -- at
Harvard in the years 1962-66 (when I moved to UC San Diego). Paul was
brilliant.

Alas, it is too late to become friends with Paul. He died in 1986. Was he
difficult? Yes, to people who he thought unworthy.

(Is there such a thing as a "stupid" question. I say no. Paul instead would
say, "Stuoid questions?" They are all stupid. My question is, is there such
a thing as a deep, good question?")


I liked him. We started to rite several papers together. Never finished any
of them. We should have.

Don

Roediger, H. L. III, & Craik, F. I. M. (1987). Paul A. Kolers
(1926–1986). *American
Psychologist, 42*(9), 873.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/h0092053
<http://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/h0092053>


r Paul A. Kolers (1926–1986). Paul A. Kolers died of lung cancer in Toronto
on January 27, 1986. He was born August 14, 1926, in New York City and
obtained his BA degree from Queen's College in 1951, and his PhD degree
from New York University in 1957. After holding several teaching and
research positions, including posts at Bell Labs, Harvard University, and
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he joined the Department of
Psychology at the University of Toronto in 1970, a position he held until
his death. Kolers's intellectual interests were wide ranging, both within
psychology and across neighboring disciplines. He was deeply committed to
the world of ideas--a commitment that made him a stimulating colleague, but
often made him impatient with lines of work he considered misguided. His
penetrating critical abilities were expressed in acerbic commentaries on
various "information-processing" approaches. His own thinking was
independent, but was connected to important historical streams in
philosophy and psychology; he was an ingenious experimentalist and a
creative theorist. In social situations he was a warm and amusing
companion. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)



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