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Paul Lazarsfeld
Paul Felix Lazarsfeld was an Austrian-American sociologist and mathematician. The founder of Columbia University's Bureau of Applied Social Research, he exerted influence over the techniques and the organization of social research. "It is not so much that he was an American sociologist," one colleague said of him after his death, "as it was that he determined what American sociology would be." Laz…
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science · Austrian-American sociologist (1901–1976) · sociologist · professor · psychologist · mathematician · physicist · educator · mathematics teacher · also Paul Lazarsfeld, Paul Felix Lazarsfeld, Lazarsfeld
Born 13 February 1901 · Died 30 August 1976 · Q94037
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uchile: Grettel Navas recibe premio Paul Lazarsfeld de la U. de Viena por su aporte a la justicia ambiental
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2022· 1 entry
Kurier: Die ungenauen Umfragen der Paul-Lazarsfeld-Gesellschaft
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1976· 3 entries
Died 1976-08-30.
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“Communication Research and Its Applications: A Postscript”
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“[My goal] is to produce Paul Lazarsfelds.”
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1972· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of Paris Descartes University (1972).
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1962· 1 entry
Career landmark: President of the American Sociological Association (1962–1962).
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1956· 1 entry
Was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association
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1949· 1 entry
Patricia Kendall, he had a son, Robert Lazarsfeld (born 1953), who was professor of mathematics at Stony Brook University, and who published Positivity in Algebraic Geometry (Springer) in 2004
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1948· 1 entry
“Mass Communication, Popular Taste, and Organized Social Action”
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1937· 1 entry
First tried to have the project moved to Newark, and when that request was turned down, split his time between the project and his institute in Newark
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1935· 1 entry
With a return to Vienna made untenable by the political climate, Lazarsfeld decided to remain in America, and secured an appointment as the director of student relief work for the National Youth Administration, headquart
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1930· 1 entry
And married his colleague Herta Herzog in 1936
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1901· 1 entry
Born 1901-02-13.
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