Donald George Marquis (June 22, 1908 – February 17, 1973) was an American psychologist and a past president of the

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(APA). He was best known for his tenure as a department chair and professor at the

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Early life

Marquis was born in Two Harbors, Minnesota. His father taught at Bellingham State Teachers' College in Bellingham, Washington, and Marquis attended the college for a year. He completed an A.B. at

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in 1928. Marquis pursued graduate study at Stanford for two years, before his advisors, Calvin Perry Stone and Lewis Terman, encouraged him to finish his graduate education at another institution. He transferred to

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. In 1931, Marquis married Dorothy Postle, a postdoctoral fellow at Yale. He completed a Ph.D. at Yale in 1932.

Career

Before he assumed his role at the University of Michigan, Marquis was a professor and department chair at Yale and he worked for the

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. Marquis co-wrote ''Theories of Learning'' with

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in 1940. He took over as chairman of the psychology department at Michigan in 1945. That year he gave the first congressional testimony from an APA officer; he was serving as secretary and speaking in favor of a piece of neuropsychiatric legislation. Marquis served as APA president in 1948. With

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, he co-wrote a textbook, ''Psychology: A Study of Mental Life''. With Hilgard, he also wrote ''Hilgard and Marquis' Conditioning and Learning''.

Later life

In 1969, Marquis joined the faculty of the

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. He became the David Sarnoff Professor of Technology Management in the

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in the fall of 1972. He died of a heart attack on February 17, 1973. He was survived by a wife and two children. The Marquis Award is given to the University of Michigan doctoral student with the best dissertation in psychology. The D.G. Marquis Behavioral Neuroscience Award is given for the best paper each year in the journal '' Behavioral Neuroscience''.

Selected publications

* Hilgard, Ernest Ropiequet, and Donald George Marquis. ''Conditioning and learning.'' (1940). * Gruber, William H., and Donald G. Marquis, eds. ''Factors in the Transfer of Technology.'' (1969). * Myers, Summwe, and Donald G. Marquis. ''Successful industrial innovation.'' Institute of Public Administration, 1969. Articles, a selection: * Marquis, Donald G. "The anatomy of successful innovations." ''Innovation'' 1.7 (1969): 28-37.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Marquis, Donald 1908 births 1973 deaths Presidents of the American Psychological Association Stanford University alumni Yale University alumni Yale University faculty University of Michigan faculty 20th-century American psychologists