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Charles Maitland Fair (September 18, 1916 - July 28, 2014) was an American neuroscience researcher and writer.

Fair was born in New York City. His mother was the stage actress Gertrude Bryan. In 1963 he was a Guggenheim Fellow at UCLA's Brain Research Institute. He worked as a scientist for MIT's Neurosciences Research Program.[1][2]

Fair was a skeptic and early member of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.[3]

Publications

  • The Physical Foundations of the Psyche (1963)
  • The Dying Self (1969)
  • From the Jaws of Victory (1971)
  • The New Nonsense: The End of the Rational Consensus (1974)
  • Memory & Central Nervous Organization (1988)
  • Cortical Memory Functions (1992)

References

  1. ^ "Charles M. Fair Obituary". Legacy Obituaries.
  2. ^ "The Most Interesting Man I Never Met". Newsmax.
  3. ^ "In-Memoriam Segment from CSICON 2016". Skeptical Inquirer.
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