Wolfgang Kohler
(1887-1967)
Kohler was born in Estonia, and earned is PhD from the University of Berlin in 1909. From 1910 to 1913 he collaborated with Koffka and Wertheimer on what would become the foundations for the Gestalt Theory. From 1913 to 1920 he was director at a research station in Canary Islands where he studied animal behavior. In 1925, Kohler was a visiting professor at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Later in 1934, he came back to the United States as a Lecturer at Harvard University and professor of psychology at Swarthmore College. In 1935 he was also visiting professor at the University of Chicago (Cooper, 2009). Kohler continued his research in the United States and became world renowned for his contributions to science and psychology. Later in life Kohler received many honors and awards (Neisser, n.d.). He is best know for his book The Mentality of Apes (1925) and his ideas about insight in learning.
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