Reg B. Bromiley
Reginald B. Bromiley was an experimental psychologist who played a prominent role in the establishment of psychology as a discipline in Canada after the Second World War.
Academic career
Bromiley received a BA in psychology from the University of British Columbia and then he proceeded to Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine from which he received a PhD in 1939. His thesis was subsequently publishedWith the outbreak of the Second World War he enlisted in the Canadian Armed Forces in which he rose to the rank of Major. He was posted to Europe and for a period worked in the Psychological Laboratory, University of Cambridge and with the military Operational Research Group. He then served in military operations and was captured and was a prisoner-of-war in Germany 1944-1945.
After the war he returned to North America and took up the post of Assistant Professor of Physiology at Johns Hopkins University followed by a similar post at the Yerkes Laboratories of Primate Biology Yale University.
He returned to Canada in 1951 where he was initially Head of the Applied Experimental Psychology Section, Human Factors Wing, Defence Research Medical Laboratories in Toronto. In 1957 he took over as Superintendent of the Human Factors Wing where he remained for the remainder of his career.