Talk:Wolfgang Köhler
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[edit]No mention of Kohler's other activities while on Tenerife? Like his covert work for the German government during WWI?
Didn't he do a lot more?
- Obviously the article can be expanded, that's why it's tagged as a stub. Re the espionage stuff, my general sense is that the evidence is substantial but not totally airtight. However, I haven't really studied it. The allegations were considered sensational when they first came out. See: http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=1927565 (the article is also in JSTOR) for a cite to Ley's book and some discussion that took place afterwards. Found by google search that gets 27,900 hits. 67.117.130.181 01:35, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
Could somebody add his perceptual experiment involving squint-glasses?
Bouba/kiki effect
[edit]The Bouba/kiki effect cites Kohler as the creator of the experiment. There is no mention of it here. Kingturtle (talk) 13:31, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
The Teuber with whom Koehler was first involved was actually named Eugen Teuber. When World War 1 finally ended, Koehler was able to return to Germany after having been interned on Tenerife Island for the duration. He brought a very bright chimpanzee named Sultan back to Germany and installed him in the Berlin Zoo where Eugen Teuber was a curator. The current wikipedia entry incorrectly uses the name of Eugen's son, Hans-Lukas Teuber who had only just been born in 1916. This fact could have been very easily checked by just googling on Hans-Lukas Teuber. Many decades later after World War 2, Hans-Lukas Teuber was first a professor at New York University and then he became the founding head of the department at MIT. The connection was maintained when Hans-Lukas Teuber hosted Wolfgang Koehler as a visitor to his laboratory and the favor was returned at Koehler's retirement home in New Hampshire. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.210.151.36 (talk) 19:28, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
Unnecessary condescension
[edit]The article says, "they had experienced an insight (also sometimes known as an “aha experience”)". This isn't Oprah; if a reader doesn't know what an insight is, he can follow the link. No need for childish vocabulary. Boldly deleted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Iain.dalton (talk • contribs) 20:52, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
Karl Planck
[edit]"dismissal of Karl Planck, a well-known experimental physicist"
Um.... is this supposed to be Max Plank, mentioned in the paragraph before? Ehgarrick (talk) 01:30, 18 October 2016 (UTC)
- Max was a theoretical physicist.96.248.101.32 (talk) 00:56, 19 January 2018 (UTC)Tyrone Carter
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