# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-richard-miles
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:17:59.521Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-richard-miles"
name: "Walter Richard Miles"
slug: "walter-richard-miles"
description: "Walter Richard Miles was an American psychologist and a president of the American Psychological Association (APA). He best known for his development of the two-story rat maze, his research on low dose alcohol, the preservation and study of early Muybridge works, the development of red night vision goggles for aviation pilots, and the reduction of performance in aging individuals. The theme of his academic career was his fascination with apparatuses to measure behavior. C. James Goodwin (2003) noted that Miles \"never became a leading figure in any particular area of research in psychology... but drifted from one area to another, with the direction of the drift determined often by the presence of a particular type of apparatus or an apparatus-related problem that intrigued him\"."
tagline: "American psychologist (1885–1978)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Walter_Richard_Miles_AAAS_1947.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1885-03-29"
deathDate: "1978-05-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             12.37804878048781
  historical:           5.471058666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "والتر ریچارد میلس"
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    title: "والتر ريتشارد مايلز"
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    title: "والتر ريتشارد مايلز"
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    title: "Майлз, Уолтер Ричард"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_R._Miles"
    title: "Walter R. Miles"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Richard_Miles"
    title: "Walter Richard Miles"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump