Education
Gage was born Nathaniel Lees Gewirtz in Union City, N.J. in 1917; his eventual name change is explained below. He attended the City College of New York and the University of Minnesota. At the University of Minnesota, he had a job working for the youthful psychologist B.F. Skinner. His duties included making food pellets for laboratory rats.
He graduated magna cum laude in 1938 with a bachelor's degree in psychology, but was rejected by 10 graduate schools before being admitted to Purdue University. According to David Berliner, the many rejections were due to anti-Semitism. Gewirtz then changed his last name to Gage.
During World War II, Gage spent two years in the Army, where he developed aptitude tests for choosing navigators and radar observers. Gage earned a Ph.D. in psychology from Purdue University in 1947.
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