Marion Webster Richardson (1896–1965) was an American educational psychologist and psychometrician.
[1] One of his most remarkable contributions was the introduction of the technique of multidimensional scaling.
His contribution is twofold: he applied the method for the first time—he applied scaling to similarities of colors obtaining a two dimensional representation—[2] and, additionally, he motivated the first algorithm to the problem, the seminal paper of Young and Householder.
[3] Sadly, his original paper was a conference proceeding from which only the abstract remains.
[4] This biography of an American psychologist is a stub.