George Armitage Miller - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

George Armitage Miller - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

"George Armitage Miller (February 3, 1920 – July 22, 2012)[4][5] was the author of one of the most highly cited papers in psychology, "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two"[6][7][8][9] This paper suggests that seven (plus or minus two) is the magic number that characterizes people's memory performance on random lists of letters, words, numbers, or almost any kind of meaningful familiar item.
According to a widely cited multi-method empirical study, Miller was the 20th most historically important psychologist of the 20th century.[10]"

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