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R. Robert Holson
Robert Holson’s life can best be divided into four time periods, involving five countries (USA, England, India, Jordan and Mexico). Born to a professional soldier (Aden Allen Holson) who saw servic...view moreRobert Holson’s life can best be divided into four time periods, involving five countries (USA, England, India, Jordan and Mexico). Born to a professional soldier (Aden Allen Holson) who saw service along the Mexican border in search of Pancho Villa in the early 1900s, then in France in WWI and the Pacific in WWII, Robert was born on an army base in 1941, just prior to this country’s entry into WWII. Robert spent 3rd grade in the UK, where his father was stationed during the Berlin airlift, then lived in various parts of Southern California, where he graduated from High School in Barstow in 1959. He attended college at the University of California at Berkeley, obtaining a bachelor’s degree in Asian history. Robert then joined the Peace Corps and spent two years in India, where he met his wife Andrea, also a Peace Corps volunteer. Thereafter Robert worked for CARE, supplying very large scale school lunch programs and food for work projects in the then Indian States of Bihar, Orissa and West Bengal. Robert’s oldest son Seth was born in Patna, the then capital of Bihar. A second son, Ethan, was born stateside during this period. After 5 years in India, Robert went to Jordan with CARE for almost 3 years. As a consequence of the above, Holson is fluent in written and spoken Hindi, comfortable in scientific German and Spanish, and able to count to ten in Arabic, one of the world’s toughest languages! Robert then left CARE and returned to the US, where he obtained a PhD in psychology from the University of Washington in Seattle. Holson then conducted neuroscience research for some 13 years at the National Center for Scientific Research in Arkansas, followed by almost as many years as professor and researcher in the Department of Psychology at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro New Mexico, where he retired as departmental chair. During this second career Holson published over 80 scientific articles. After retirement he researched and wrote this book, while dividing his time between grandchildren in Seattle and homes in Socorro and the historic town of Alamos in Mexico.view less
Books by R. Robert Holson
The Uplift Project: Enhancing and Propagating Intelligence and Longevity