ABSTRACT
Meeting Mats Björkman in Stockholm in 1965 was not what I expected. Instead of a stately, formal Swedish professor immersed in the intricacies of long-forgotten psychophysics, the first thing I saw when I was ushered into Mats’s office was a wire and glass model of Brunswik’s Lens Model! Mats knew I would be astounded and he greeted my astonishment with a big grin and then a hearty laugh; Mats likes a good joke. So then we sat down and had a good talk about Brunswik. It may be fair to say that he was the lone Brunswikian in Europe, I the lone Brunswikian in the U.S.; iconoclasts who discover one another always have much to talk about. I soon discovered that I had a valuable ally: a determined, independent thinker who not only held strong views but had a great deal of technical competence, and very high standards of research and scholarship. He was a good man to know.
