Benton J. Underwood

1915–1994 (age 79)

Psychologist

Biography

Benton J. Underwood was a psychologist who expanded the field's understanding of memory, language, and the ways people retrieve information from the mind's storehouse.

He inspired generations of students with the same clarity that guided his research, and colleagues remember him for generous mentorship as well as scholarly brilliance; he is buried in Maple Hill Cemetery.

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