John D. Bransford died in 2022. He was an intellectual giant. His seminal work in educational psychology was recognized by Division 15 of the American Psychological Association with their Career Achievement Award in 2001. This paper is an introduction to the man. It traces his intellectual development from cognitive psychology to educational psychology to the learning sciences. It is written as a first-person narrative to echo the perspective he often adopted in his surprisingly accessible papers. This paper also describes the intellectual community he built around himself, one that was remarkably successful in generating novel ideas, supporting collaborative research, and training generations of young researchers who would go on to make their own marks. Finally, it portrays what it was like to work alongside a man who saw just a little further down the road than the rest of us.

约翰·D·布兰斯福德 (John D. Bransford) 于 2022 年去世。他是一位知识巨人。他在教育心理学方面的开创性工作获得了美国心理学协会第 15 部的认可，并于 2001 年颁发了职业成就奖。本文是对这位人物的介绍。它追溯了他从认知心理学到教育心理学再到学习科学的智力发展。它以第一人称叙述的方式写成，以呼应他在其令人惊讶的通俗易懂的论文中经常采用的观点。本文还描述了他围绕自己建立的知识分子社区，该社区在产生新颖想法、支持合作研究以及培训一代又一代的年轻研究人员方面取得了巨大成功，他们将继续创造自己的成就。最后，它描绘了与一个比我们其他人看得更远的人一起工作的感觉。