Renowned neuroscientist Mortimer Mishkin, best known for his work with cognitive and behavioral memory, died at his home in Bethesda, Maryland on October 2. He was 94.
Born December 13, 1926 in Massachusetts to Russian immigrants, Mishkin dropped out of high school to join the Navy during World War II. The Washington Post reports that the officer training program brought him to Dartmouth College, where he obtained a degree in business management in 1946. After his service, he was free to pursue his interest in psychology—a passion ignited by reading the works of Sigmund Freud in his youth, Mishkin explained in a 2001 interview. He attended McGill University in Montreal for his master’s degree in 1949, staying at the school for his PhD, which he received in 1951.
In 1955, Mishkin joined the National Institutes of Health (NIH), where he worked to understand the primate brain, bridging the gap between ...
