ABSTRACT
Dr McFarland was born in Denver, Colorado, in 1901, and was raised in Missouri. He received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan in 1923, and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1928 in Physiological Psychology. He pursued an academic career of research and teaching. As a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge in England from 1927 and 1928, Dr McFarland showed how the lack of oxygen during simulated flights could impair the behavior of RAF student pilots, giving rise to lack of insight and loss of judgment.
