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Johannes von Kries was a German physiological psychologist, or what might now be called a neuroscientist, and student of Helmholtz. In color science, he is known as the father of chromatic adaptation models for his work on the coefficient theory of adaptation.
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J. von Kries, Beitrag zur Physiologie der Gesichtsempfindugen (Physiology of visual sensations) (1878) [Translation: D.L. MacAdam, Sources of Color Science, (MIT Press, Cambridge, 1970)]
J. von Kries, Chromatic adaptation, Festschrift der Albrecht-Ludwig-Universität, (Fribourg) (1902) [Translation: D.L. MacAdam, Sources of Color Science, (MIT Press, Cambridge, 1970)]
J. von Kries, Die Gesichtsempfindungen, in Handbuch der Physiologie des Menschen, vol. 3, ed. by W. Nagel (Vieweg, Braunschweig, Germany, 1905), pp. 109–282
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Shamey, R., Fairchild, M. (2020). von Kries, Johannes Adolf 1853–1928. In: Pioneers of Color Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30811-1_49
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