Background
Willerman, Lee was born on July 26, 1939 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Israel and Anna Willerman.
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Willerman, Lee was born on July 26, 1939 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Israel and Anna Willerman.
Willerman received Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees from Roosevelt University in 1961 and 1964 respectively, and his Doctor of Philosophy from Wayne State University in 1967. After a three-year stint at the National Institutes of Health, Willerman completed a post-doctoral year at the University of Michigan in the Department of Human Genetics.
In 1971 he took a position at the University of Texas at Austin, where he remained until his death. In 1974, Willerman joined the American Eugenics Society, at a time when this society had already moved away from eugenics and towards the study of medical genetics, behavior genetics, and social biology. His first study examined intelligence quotient and birth weight differences between identical twins, finding that the twin who had been heavier at birth tended to be higher in intelligence quotient. Willerman worked with Joseph M. Horn and John C. Loehlin on a major study of adoptive families, the Texas Adoption Project.
Much of his work involved psychometrics and research into neuroanatomical predictors of intelligence.
In 1994 he was one of 52 signatories on "Mainstream Science on Intelligence," an editorial written by Linda Gottfredson and published in the Wall Street Journal, which declared the consensus of the signing scholars on issues related to intelligence research in relation to the controversy in the wake of the publication of the book The Bell Curve.
Fellow American Psychological Association, International Society Twin Studies. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, Society Study Social Biology, Behavior Genetics Association.
Married Benne Secter, January 21, 1962. Children: Raquel, Amiel.
