Harold Leonard Nieburg

November, 1927 (age 73)

Philadelphia, United States

He served briefly in the United States. Air Force during the Korean War, reaching the rank of corporal, and as a reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer and for the Chicago Sun-Times. Later he taught at Illinois State University, Case Institute of Technology, and the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee before accepting a position at State University of New York-Binghamton in 1970. He retired in 1995 to the Fort Myers, Florida region. He was considered an international expert on political conflict and the Cold War, and was a confidant of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Paul Simon. He wrote numerous books, including Nuclear Secrecy and Foreign Policy (1964), Political Violence: The Behavioral Process (1969), and Culture Storm: Politics and the Ritual Order (1973). He also wrote hundreds of scholarly articles His most influential work was In the Name of Science (1966). The book focused on the political uses to which science is put with an emphasis on defense spending on science. Later in his career he focused on political journalism and political polling, and was an early advocate of the use of computers in political science. This last interest eventually led him to write for computer magazines such as Computer Shopper. He was also an amateur photographer. He died on 27 September 2001 of an aneurysm.

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Born in 1927 in Philadelphia, he attended the University of Chicago, earning a Ph. B. (1947), Master of Arts (1952), and Doctor of Philosophy (1960) in political science.

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He served briefly in the United States. Air Force during the Korean War, reaching the rank of corporal, and as a reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer and for the Chicago Sun-Times. Later he taught at Illinois State University, Case Institute of Technology, and the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee before accepting a position at State University of New York-Binghamton in 1970. He retired in 1995 to the Fort

Myers, Florida region.

He was considered an international expert on political conflict and the Cold War, and was a confidant of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Paul Simon. He wrote numerous books, including Nuclear Secrecy and Foreign Policy (1964), Political Violence: The Behavioral Process (1969), and Culture Storm: Politics and the Ritual Order (1973).

He also wrote hundreds of scholarly articles His most influential work was In the Name of Science (1966).

The book focused on the political uses to which science is put with an emphasis on defense spending on science.

Later in his career he focused on political journalism and political polling, and was an early advocate of the use of computers in political science. This last interest eventually led him to write for computer magazines such as Computer Shopper. He was also an amateur photographer.

He died on 27 September 2001 of an aneurysm.

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