The International Colour Vision Society is pleased to announce
that the Verriest Medal will be awarded at the biennial meeting
in Cambridge, England to Donald I. A. MacLeod, Professor of
Psychology at the University of California, San Diego. This award
is bestowed by the Society to honor long-term contributions to the
field of color vision. Dr. MacLeod's empirical and theoretical
contributions include some of the most striking advances in
vision science in the second half of the twentieth century.
Among his many contributions, MacLeod (with Boynton, 1979)
developed a constant luminance cone excitation chromaticity space.
The MacLeod-Boynton chromaticity diagram is widely used, and has
become the preferred way of expressing chromatic discrimination
data. The Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage will include
a version of the MacLeod-Boynton chromaticity diagram in its new
physiologically based colorimetric system. With Eisner (1980), he
provided experimental evidence that the S-cones do not contribute to
flicker photometric sensitivity. With Williams and Hayhoe (1981),
MacLeod psychophysically mapped the S-cone distribution in the fovea.
With Webster (1983, 1987), MacLeod analyzed individual differences
in cone receptoral spectral sensitivities before molecular
genetics provided a cellular basis fori functional polymorphism.
The conclusions of the Webster-MacLeod analysis are concordant with
modern molecular genetic studies.
The selection committee members were: Samir S. Deeb, Joel M. Pokorny,
Andrré Roth, Luiz Carlos Silveira, Shoko Tanabe, Francoise Viénot
and John S. Werner
-- Ken Knoblauch General Secretary International Colour Vision Society--------- About this list: http://www.visionscience.com/vsList.html
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