Rather sorry today to learn of the death of George Miller, a legendary scientist in the field of psychology who most people know for his formulation of the 7 +/- 2 chunks in short-term memory storage capability. He did far more than this, including excellent work on reading and writing, and the nature of information but it’s that ‘law’ for which he will always be known. I remember reading him as an undergraduate and later discovering all the other areas of work where he had made significant contributions (and I don’t mean he published a paper or two on eclectic topics, he really shaped whole areas of work). There’s a decent obit in today’s NYT that covers the life but he was a great scholar, a man of real impact, the kind we rarely see these days in the rat-race for citations. Coming so soon after the passing of Ulrich Neisser, it seems a generation of true greats is leaving us.