Stanley Smith Stevens 1906-1973

Abstract

S. S. Stevens, professor of Psychophysics in Harvard University was born in Ogden, Utah on 4 November 1906, and died in Vail, Colorado on 18 January 1973. He was, without question, the strongest voice in psychophysics since G. T. Fechner. Indeed, Stevens’ Law and Fechner’s Law represent the most widely known quantifications of stimulus-response relations in all of experimental psychology.