Background
Zuckerman, Harriet was born on July 19, 1937 in New York City.
( Scientific Elite is about Nobel prize winners and the w...)
Scientific Elite is about Nobel prize winners and the well-defined stratification system in twentieth-century science. It tracks the careers of all American laureates who won prizes from 1907 until 1972, examining the complex interplay of merit and privilege at each stage of their scientific lives and the creation of the ultra-elite in science. The study draws on biographical and bibliographical data on laureates who did their prize-winning research in the United States, and on detailed interviews with forty-one of the fifty-six laureates living in the United States at the time the study was done. Zuckerman finds laureates being successively advantaged as time passes. These advantages are producing growing disparities between the elite and other scientists both in performance and in rewards, which create and maintain a sharply graded stratification system.
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sociologist university professor
Zuckerman, Harriet was born on July 19, 1937 in New York City.
Harriet Zuckerman received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Vassar College and Doctor of Philosophy from Columbia University.
She is Senior Vice President of the Andrew West. Mellon Foundation and professor emerita of Columbia University. She was professor of sociology at Columbia and chaired the department in 1978–1982. In 1991, she joined the Andrew West. Mellon Foundation, of which she is the Senior Vice President.
Zuckerman"s research has focused on the social organization of science and scholarship.
She is the author of the 1979 book, Scientific Elite: Nobel Laureates in the United States. This book, in addition to being a study of a scientific elite, constitutes a fascinating introduction to the phenomenon of multiple discovery, particularly in science and technology.
Zuckerman was married to the late sociologist of science, Robert K.
( Scientific Elite is about Nobel prize winners and the w...)
Board director Social Science Research Council, 1974-1976, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1980-1984, Women's Forum, 1989-1991. Trustee Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, 1976-1988, 89-2001, 03—09. Member educational advisory board John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1986-1993, member committee on selection, 1989-1991.
Member American Philosophical Society (councillor 1997-1903, since 2005, vice president since 2006,chairman Class III membership committee 2002-2005), American Academy Arts and Sciences (chairman class III membership committee 1991-1994), Society Social Studies Science (president 1989-1991), The Century Association, Council on Foreign Relations.
Daughter of Harry and Anne D. (Wiener) Z. Married Robert K. Merton, 1993.