Edwin Boring

“Mr. Psychology”

Edwin Garrigues (Gary) Boring (October 23, 1886 – July 1, 1968) was an American experimental psychologist, Professor of Psychology at Clark University, and at Harvard University. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and grew up in a Quaker family interested in science. Boring studied engineering and psychology at Cornell University, receiving his Ph.D. in the latter in 1914.

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arXiv.org

The popular preprint server arXiv.org, where physicists, mathematicians and computer scientists routinely upload manuscripts to publicly share their findings before peer review, now holds more than 1 million research articles.

ArXiv (pronounced archive) is a public server repository that hosts electronic e-prints of research output primarily from the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics.

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