In Memory of Eric Heinemann

Those of us in the animal cognition community were saddened to learn of the death of Eric Heinemann on July 9, 2006. Eric’s eventful life included escape from the Netherlands during the Nazi era and service as a pilot in the British and the U.S. air services in World War II. After the war he studied with Wolfgang K hler at Swarthmore (BA, 1949) and continued his work in perception with James Gibson at Cornell (PhD, 1952). After stints at Harvard, Vassar, and the New School, Eric settled in 1963 as Professor of Psychology at Brooklyn College, CUNY.