Heinz Werner (psychologist) - Later Life

Later Life

For three years, Werner was funded by a grant at the University of Michigan. For a brief year, Werner accepted a position as a visiting professor at Harvard, but returned to Michigan the following year as a senior research psychologist at the Wayne County Training School. While at these two positions, Werner's work remained spread across several interests including: contour, metacontrast, binocular perception of depth, aesthetics, and developmental comparisons between normal functioning children and children with mental retardation. Following the death of his wife, he left the University for his first teaching position in the United States at Brooklyn College working on the effects of brain damage in 1942. Five years later, he left the University to take a more prestigious position at Clark University in the Department of Psychology and Education. His research at the University, as many of his other positions, focused primarily on perception and language, and collaborated with his colleagues Seymour Wapner and Bernard Kaplan on several projects. This was the position he held for the longest, remaining at the University for 17 years.

Awards -1955: Ford Foundation Grant of $5,000 -1956: Elected to Clark chapter of Phi Beta Kappa Society -1956: Membership to American Academy of Arts and Sciences -1957 Awarded title of Ordentlicher Professor Emeritus at University of Hamburg -1960 Awarded title of Professor Emeritus at Clark University