Jozef B. Cohen: 1921-1995

Macbeth Award winner, Matrix R discoverer and psychophysicist Joseph Cohen died on Aug 18, 1995 just before the completion of his lifetime research in vision science. Cohen started his work in vision science as a Susan Linn Sage Fellow at the Cornell University where he became interested in vision a...

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Published in:The American journal of psychology 1998-06, Vol.111 (2), p.295-299
Main Authors: Evans, Rand B., Worthy, James
Format: Article
Language:English
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Cohen
Cohen, Jozef B
History of medicine
History, 20th Century
Psychology, Experimental - history
United States
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Summary:Macbeth Award winner, Matrix R discoverer and psychophysicist Joseph Cohen died on Aug 18, 1995 just before the completion of his lifetime research in vision science. Cohen started his work in vision science as a Susan Linn Sage Fellow at the Cornell University where he became interested in vision and tristimulus representations of color mixtures. He developed the Matrix R formula when he related the mathematician's projector matrix to color vision and the representation-independent color theory.
ISSN:0002-9556
1939-8298