Max Wertheimer

Person · Open Library

Works

6

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing

   · 2012 · cited 24,605x

2. A smooth particle mesh Ewald method

   · 1995 · cited 21,521x

3. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

   · 2019 · cited 20,903x

4. Welcome to the Tidyverse

   · 2019 · cited 20,494x

5. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

   · 2001 · cited 18,622x

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Quotes

• “I stand at the window and see a house, trees, sky.”
• “Man is not only part of a field, but a part and member of his group. When people are together, as when they are at work, then the most unnatural behavior, which only appears in late stages or abnormal cases, would be to behave as separate Egos. Under normal circumstances they work in common, each a meaningfully functioning part of the whole.”
• “What is Gestalt theory and what does it intend? Gestalt theory was the outcome of concrete investigations in psychology, logic, and epistemology. The prevailing situation at the time of its origin may be briefly sketched as follows. We go from the world of everyday events to that of science, and not unnaturally assume that in making this transition we shall gain a deeper and more precise understanding of essentials.”
• “It has long seemed obvious — and is, in fact, the characteristic tone of European science — that “science” means breaking up complexes into their component elements. Isolate the elements, discover their laws, then reassemble them, and the problem is solved. All wholes are reduced to pieces and piecewise relations between pieces.”
• “Science is rooted in the will to truth. With the will to truth it stands or falls. Lower the standard even slightly and science becomes diseased at the core. Not only science, but man. The will to truth, pure and unadulterated, is among the essential conditions of his existence; if the standard is compromised he easily becomes a kind of tragic caricature of himself.”
• “Truth and falsity, indeed understanding, is not necessarily something purely intellectual, remote from feelings and attitudes.”

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Key facts

Born

April 15, 1880 ( 1880-04-15 ) , Prague , Austria-Hungary

Died

October 12, 1943 (1943-10-12) (aged 63), New Rochelle, New York , U.S.

Education

University of Würzburg ( PhD , 1904), University of Prague

Fields

Psychology

Institutions

Frankfurt University , The New School

Doctoral advisor

Oswald Külpe

Doctoral students

Rudolf Arnheim , Erika Fromm , Kurt Lewin

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