Wayne Allen Wickelgren was a professor of psychology at Columbia University.
[1] Wickelgren attended Harvard University, graduating summa cum laude with the Class of 1960.
[2] In 1962, Wickelgren started as an assistant professor in the Psychology department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
[3] While there, he rose to full Professor and researched problem-solving, learning, and language.
[6] Wicklegren's work was used by James McClelland and David Rumelhart to develop the Wickelphone which is a sequence of 3 letters or symbols used together in a word.