Abraham Harold Maslow (1908 - 1970)
Abraham Maslow earned all of his degrees at the University of Wisconsin, where he did research on primate behavior. He spent a brief, one and a half year period at Columbia University. From 1937 – 1951 he served on the faculty of Brooklyn College. In 1951 he joined the department of psychology at Brandeis University, where he stayed until 1969. Maslow became a resident fellow of the Laughlin Foundation in Menlo Park, California from 1969 until his death in 1970. He has been called a leading spokesman for the so-called "third force" in psychology: humanistic psychology.
Maslow’s studies focused on the inner nature of man and the realization of human potential. He originated three new concepts in this area: metaneeds, traits of self-actualizing individuals, and peak experiences.