Walter Richard Miles

Walter Richard Miles (1885 to 1978) was an American psychologist and a president of the American Psychological Association. He is best known for the two-story rat maze he built for studies of learning, for research on the effects of low and moderate doses of alcohol on performance, and for preserving and studying the early photographic work of Eadweard Muybridge. His career ran from the Carnegie Nutrition Laboratory to Stanford University and then Yale, and a thread through it was his fascination with apparatuses for measuring behavior. At Stanford he also directed the Later Maturity Studies on psychological development in older age, and he developed red night vision goggles for aviation pilots.