Tuesday, January 1, 2019

Gregory Razran

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'''Gregory H. Razran''' (1901, [[Slutsk]]-1973) was an [[Russian American]] leading authority on Russian psychological research.<ref name="NYT">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> He left Russia in 1920 and studied at [[Columbia University]] gaining a doctorate in 1933.<ref name="NYT"/> He moved to [[Queens College, City University of New York]] in 1940 where he became a professor and headed the Psychology department there from 1945 to 1966.<ref name="NYT"/> He received a [[Guggenheim Fellowship]] in 1948.<ref name="NYT"/>

He regarded the work of [[Ivan Pavlov]] as a "[[Trojan horse]]" in the [[Soviet Union]] as he saw it as being incompatible with [[Marxism-Leninism]]. In 1950 he published a short piece about the Soviet [[behaviorism|behaviourist]], [[Emmanuil Enchmen]], a loyal Stalinist whose scientific views had been proscribed since 1923.<ref name="Windholz">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>

He moved to [[St Petersburg, Florida]] where he was professor at [[Eckerd College]]. He drowned while swimming at the age of 72.<ref name="NYT"/>
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