Roger Russell
Roger Wolcott Russell was a biological psychologist who worked in both the UK and the USA.
Russell was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1914. He obtained a BSc followed by an MSc at Clark University where he worked with Walter Samuel Hunter.
He then proceeded to the University of Virginia where he earned his PhD in 1939.
He taught briefly at the University of Nebraska and Michigan State College but when the United States entered the war he joined the United States Air Force where he held a number of teaching and research positions.
After the war, he returned to the US and held a post at the University of Pittsburgh. He then was awarded a Fulbright Program scholarship to the Institute of Psychiatry in London and was named Professor and Head of the Department of Psychology at University College London where he stayed for seven years before returning to the USA.
In London he became active in the International Union of Psychological Science. When he returned to the USA he was first elected to the executive committee of the IUPsyS and then became its secretary-general.Awards
