It had its foundations in the Gestalt psychology of Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Köhler, and Kurt Koffka, and in the work of Jean Piaget, who provided a theory of stages / phases that describe children's cognitive development.

They include mountain climbers ( Heidi Howkins, class of 1989, the only woman to lead expeditions to both Everest and K-2 ), authors ( such as Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, class of 1914, pen name Carolyn Keene ), astronomers ( including Annie Jump Cannon, class of 1884, who developed the well-known Harvard Classification of stars based upon temperature ), screenwriters, ( including Nora Ephron, class of 1962, famous for such films as When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle ), journalists ( Linda Wertheimer, class of 1965, Lynn Sherr, class of 1963, Diane Sawyer, class of 1967, and Cokie Roberts, class of 1964, being a few notable examples ), entrepreneurs ( including Robin Chase, class of 1980, the co-founder of ZipCar ), mathematicians ( Winifred Edgerton Merrill, class of 1883, was the first woman to ever receive a PhD in mathematics ), judges ( including Jane Bolin, class of 1928, the first African-American woman to become a judge, and current federal appeals judges Reena Raggi, Amalya Kearse, and Susan P. Graber ).

Max Wertheimer ( April 15, 1880 – October 12, 1943 ) was a Prague-born psychologist who was one of the three founders of Gestalt psychology, along with Kurt Koffka and Wolfgang Köhler.

In 1923, while teaching in Berlin, Wertheimer married Anna ( called Anni ) Caro, a physician ’ s daughter, with whom he had four children: Rudolf ( who died in infancy ), Valentin, Michael and Lise.

Wolfgang Köhler ( January 21, 1887 – June 11, 1967 ) was a German psychologist and phenomenologist who, like Max Wertheimer, and Kurt Koffka, contributed to the creation of Gestalt psychology.

Arriving with only ten dollars in his pocket, he received assistance from other Gestalt psychologists, including Max Wertheimer, who arranged for his appointment to the psychology faculty at the New School for Social Research.

Important as court Jews were also Samuel Oppenheimer, who went from Heidelberg to Vienna, and Samson Wertheimer ( Wertheimher ) from Worms.

Oppenheimer, who was appointed chief court factor, together with his two sons Emanuel and Wolf, and Wertheimer, who was at first associated with him, devoted their time and talents to the service of Austria and the House of Habsburg: during the Rhenish, French, Turkish, and Spanish wars they loaned millions of florins for provisions, munitions, etc.

Alain Wertheimer ( b. 1949 ) is a French businessman based in France who, with his brother Gerard own the controlling interest in the House of Chanel .< sup ></ sup > The son of Jacques Wertheimer and Eliane Fischer, it was his grandfather Pierre who co-founded the Chanel business.

The privately held company is run by Alain who has presided over the acquisition of several non-Chanel brands, including Eres Lingerie and beachwear, Tanner Krolle saddles and leather goods, and Holland & Holland, a British gunsmith. Based in France, the Wertheimer brothers own French vineyards like Rauzan-Segla in Margaux, France and Chateau Canon in Saint-Emilion, both of which have won rave reviews from oenophiles.

Both brothers are enthusiastic equestrians who also inherited and operate an important Thoroughbred horse racing stable they call La Presle Farm or Wertheimer farm for racing in the United States and is known as Wertheimer et Frère partnership in France.

His son-in-law, the above-named Eskeles, who ( although he resided in Vienna, being connected with his father-in-law's banking business there ) had succeeded his father, Gabriel Eskeles, as Landesrabbiner of Moravia, was appointed ( 1725 ) at Wertheimer's death his successor as Landesrabbiner of Hungary ( Kaufmann, " Samson Wertheimer ", p. 104, Vienna, 1888 ; Wurzbach, " Biographisches Lexikon ", s. v.

" She proclaimed that Pierre Wertheimer was " the bandit who screwed me.

Among those who have held positions in public life are Emanuel Wertheimer, select councilman and member of the state house of representatives ; Morris Einstein, select councilman ( 15 years ); Josiah Cohen, judge of the Orphans ' Court ; E. E. Mayer, city physician ; L. S. Levin, assistant city attorney.

The myth was debunked in 1912 by Wertheimer but persists in many citations in many classic and modern film-theory texts.

The insights of Poincaré and von Helmholtz were built on in early accounts of the creative process by pioneering theorists such as Graham Wallas and Max Wertheimer.

In 1924, Gestalt psychologist, Max Wertheimer identified this fact, stating ‘ There are entities where the behavior of the whole cannot be derived from its individual elements nor from the way these elements fit together ; rather the opposite is true: the properties of any of the parts are determined by the intrinsic structural laws of the whole ’ ( Wertheimer 1924, p.

Dan Egonsson, followed by Roger Wertheimer, argued that while it is conventional for people to equate dignity with ' being human ' ( Egonsson's ' Standard Attitude ', Wertheimer's ' Standard Belief '), people generally also import something other than mere humanness to their idea of dignity.

The phi phenomenon is an optical illusion defined by Max Wertheimer in the Gestalt psychology in 1912, in which persistence of vision formed a part of the base of the theory of cinema, applied by Hugo Münsterberg in 1916.

The Iscar plant and industrial parks built in the vicinity of Ma ' alot-Tarshiha by Stef Wertheimer are major sources of employment for the city's residents.

Robert Siegel, Linda Wertheimer, Ann Taylor, Steve Inskeep of NPR's All Things Considered report on the event against a performance of the score by the Virginia Symphony conducted by JoAnn Falletta.

As a business enterprise, Chanel S. A. is a privately held company owned by Alain Wertheimer and Gerard Wertheimer, grandsons of Pierre Wertheimer, an early business partner of Coco Chanel.

In 1925, he exhibited in the Berliner Sezession and went through a further formation in aesthetics, deeply influenced by Julius Meier-Graefe, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer and the Gestalt theory of Max Wertheimer.

Samson Wertheimer was succeeded as court factor by his son Wolf.

The beta movement is an optical illusion, first described by Max Wertheimer in 1912.

The first families to move were mostly workers at ISCAR Metalworking, a successful factory owned by Stef Wertheimer specialising in metal blades and high performance cutting tools.

It was founded in 1997 by longtime activist Fred Wertheimer, and is based in Washington, DC.

* " Adrafinil-induced Orofacial Dyskinesia " by S. Thobois, J. Xie, H. Mollion, I. Benatru and E. Broussolle of the Department of Neurology, Pierre Wertheimer Neurological Hospital, Lyon, France.

Bader had been instrumental in brokering the business connection by introducing Chanel to Pierre Wertheimer at the Longchamps races in 1922.

Today, his midrashim are normally printed in a combined two volume set edited by his grandson A. J. Wertheimer.

The company was founded by Jeremy Wertheimer, a computer scientist from the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and his partner Richard Aiken in 1996.

The title was occasionally conferred as a sign of distinction ; thus Samson Wertheimer received in 1717 from Emperor Charles VI.

After the War, Koffka returned to Frankfurt, while Kohler became the director of the Psychological Institute at the University of Berlin, where Wertheimer was already on the faculty.

From 1929 to 1933, Wertheimer was a professor at the University of Frankfurt.

For the remaining decade of his life, Wertheimer continued to teach at the New School, while remaining in touch with his European colleagues, many of whom had also emigrated to the U. S. Koffka was teaching at Smith College, Kohler at Swarthmore College, and Lewin at Cornell University and the University of Iowa.

In 1910-13, he was an assistant at the Psychological Institute in Frankfurt in which he worked with fellow psychologists Max Wertheimer and Kurt Koffka.

They collaborated on the founding of a new holistic attitude toward psychology called Gestalt theory ( from the German word for “ whole "), aspects of which are indebted to the earlier work of Stumpf ( Köhler ’ s teacher ) and Christian von Ehrenfels ( whose lectures at the University of Prague Wertheimer had attended ).

Koffka was already working at the University of Frankfurt when Max Wertheimer arrived in 1910 and invited Koffka to participate as a subject in his research on the phi phenomenon.

Wertheimer wrote his paper in the early days of motion pictures, and this may account for some of his findings, as people were unfamiliar with images moving at all.

At the age of 24 he received a Ph. D. from the University of Graz, for his innovative study of the causal structure of perception included the work on ' Thing and Medium ' which involved perception, and traveled to Berlin, where he worked at the Psychology Institute under Wolfgang Koehler, Max Wertheimer and Kurt Lewin.

For instance, Max Wertheimer did experiments with two stationary, flashing lights that at some interstimulus intervals appeared to the subject as moving instead of stationary.