Education
Born in Rocky Ford, Colorado, he earned a Bachelor of Surgery and a Doctor of Philosophy from Harvard in 1940 and 1947, respectively.
Born in Rocky Ford, Colorado, he earned a Bachelor of Surgery and a Doctor of Philosophy from Harvard in 1940 and 1947, respectively.
Following Kinsey"s death in 1956, Gebhard became the second director of the Kinsey Institute and served in that capacity from 1956 to 1982. He co-authored the second of the two Kinsey Reports. He has also claimed that the statistical bias in the data had not materially affected the results of either of the two reports.
He joined the Department of Anthropology of Indiana University in 1947, and retired in 1986.
Paul Gebhard was born to Paul Gebhard, Senior and Eva Baker, who worked as an elementary schoolteacher. Following a brief illness, Gebhard died near his home in Indiana on July 9, 2015, aged 98.
In the 2004 film Kinsey, actor Timothy Hutton stars as Gebhard.