Walter Mischel

Walter Mischel (1930–2018) was born in Vienna and fled with his family to New York at the age of eight to escape the Nazis. He earned a doctorate in clinical psychology and began teaching at Harvard University in 1958. He later worked at Stanford University, where he first conducted the marshmallow experiment, and from 1983 at Columbia University in New York. His scientific work received numerous awards, including the Ludwig Wittgenstein Prize in 2012.