Background
Guttman was born in New York City on February 10, 1916 and grew up in the Jewish community of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
mathematician statistician university professor
Guttman was born in New York City on February 10, 1916 and grew up in the Jewish community of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Guttman received both his Bachelor in 1936 and Master of Arts in 1939 at the University of Minnesota, and his Doctor of Philosophy in Social and Psychological Measurement in 1942.
He founded and was the scientific director of the Israel Institute of Applied Social Research, later renamed the Guttman Institute before finally becoming the Guttman Center (part of the Israel Democracy Institute). From 1941 to 1947 Guttman was professor of sociology at Cornell University, while as part of the World World War II effort, he also served as an Expert Consultant to the United States Army’s Research Branch. In 1956 he was elected Stanford University: Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
Other awards were:
1978 Israel Prize in the social sciences
1984 Educational Testing Service Measurement Award from Princeton University.
Guttman died on October 25, 1987, while on sabbatical in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in the United States.
He was member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and foreign Honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and President of the Psychometric Society. In 1962 he received the Rothschild Prize and in 1971 Science included Guttman in a list of the 62 most important contributors to scientific research in the social sciences since the beginning of the 20th century. 1974 Regents of the University of Minnesota - Outstanding Achievement Award.
Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
