| Revision as of 20:59, 7 September 2010 editMotmit (talk | contribs)Autopatrolled, Extended confirmed users, Pending changes reviewers26,275 edits That sort of statement must have a citation← Previous edit | Revision as of 05:36, 5 October 2010 edit undoRjwilmsiBot (talk | contribs)Bots, Pending changes reviewers1,602,950 editsm →External links: Persondata completion using AWB (7216)Next edit → | ||
| Line 22: | Line 22: | ||
| * | * | ||
| {{Persondata <!-- Metadata: see ]. --> | |||
| | NAME = Sommerhoff, Gerd | |||
| | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | |||
| | SHORT DESCRIPTION = | |||
| | DATE OF BIRTH = | |||
| | PLACE OF BIRTH = | |||
| | DATE OF DEATH = | |||
| | PLACE OF DEATH = | |||
| }} | |||
| {{DEFAULTSORT:Sommerhoff, Gerd}} | {{DEFAULTSORT:Sommerhoff, Gerd}} | ||
| ] | ] | ||
Revision as of 05:36, 5 October 2010
Gerd Sommerhoff OBE (born Germany 1905, died Cambridge, England 2002-04-28), was a pioneer of theoretical neuroscience and a noted humanist.
A great-grandson of the German composer Robert Schumann, he was living in England at the onset of the Second World War. As a foreign national, he spent at least two years in an internment camp in Canada before returning to England where he took up a post teaching science at the Dragon School in Oxford. While there, he developed what was really an early form of CBT without computers, using boxes of numbered cards, containing questions, answers, tutorial material, or descriptions of experiments, on a variety of different subjects.
Sommerhoff later became a Research Fellow in Systems Theory at University College, London. In parallel with this position, he taught technology at Sevenoaks School. In 1984, he retired from teaching and moved to Trinity College, Cambridge.
Some of his students were Tim Hunt, John Paul Morrison, and Richard Veryard.
Works
- 1950. Analytical Biology
- 1974. Logic of the Living Brain
- 1990. Life, Brain and Consciousness
- 1994. An Account of consciousness in physical and functional terms: A target for research in the neurosciences. Integrative Physiology and Behavioral Science. With Karl F. MacDorman.
- 1996. In and Out of Consciousness. The intimate history of a search for certainties.
- 2001. Understanding Consciousness.
References
- Richard Brown Baker family papers
- Intellectual Autobiography by Richard Sorabji. In Metaphysics, Soul, and Ethics in Ancient Thought: Themes from the Work of Richard Sorabji, By Ricardo Salles. Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN 9780199261307.
- ^ J. Paul Morrison's autobiography. Accessed June 16, 2009.