Wendell R. Garner (January 21, 1921 – August 14, 2008) was a Yale University psychology researcher credited with making significant contributions to the cognitive revolution, in which George Miller and others applied emerging research from the fields of artificial intelligence and computer science to test ideas about human mental processes.
[1] He met his spouse Barbara Ward Garner while working at Harvard's radar laboratory during World War II.
[2] In 1946, Garner moved to Baltimore to join the faculty of Johns Hopkins University and from 1954 to 1964 chaired the school's psychology department, also serving as director the Institute for Cooperative Research that existed at the time.
[1] Garner's research helped crystallize concepts like channel capacity as applied to the cognitive revolution.
[1] Garner won multiple awards during his career, including election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1965; the American Psychological Association's Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award; the American Psychological Foundation's Gold Medal for Science of Psychology; the Warren Medal from the Society of Experimental Psychologists; Yale's Wilbur Cross Medal; and an honorary degree from Johns Hopkins.