2014 Lifetime Achievement Award: Ian Deary
The Lifetime Achievement Award is ISIR’s highest honor, reserved for individuals who have, over their professional lifetime, substantially advanced the field of intelligence.
The 2014 awardee was Professor Ian Deary
Interviewed for the award, Professor Deary summed up his work as follows:
"I feel like four different people in intelligence research,” says ISIR’s Lifetime Achievement Award winner for 2014, Ian Deary. “I started by being, and still am, intrigued by the fact that simple-seeming measures of processing speed correlate strongly with higher-level cognit...
2013 Lifetime Achievement Award: Linda Gottfredson
The Lifetime Achievement Award is ISIR’s highest honor, reserved for individuals who have, over their professional lifetime, substantially advanced the field of intelligence.
The 2013 awardee was Professor Linda Gottfredson.
2012 Lifetime Achievement Award: Timothy Salthouse
The Lifetime Achievement Award is ISIR’s highest honor, reserved for individuals who have, over their professional lifetime, substantially advanced the field of intelligence.
The 2012 awardee was Professor Timothy Salthouse
His work has transformed our understanding of cognitive development, especially cognitive ageing. As with many of our lifetime awardees, he has been an influential communicator, and his students have taken prestigious positions, further advancing and shaping the direction of his field.
2011 Lifetime Achievement Award
The Lifetime Achievement Award is ISIR’s highest honor, reserved for individuals who have, over their professional lifetime, substantially advanced the field of intelligence.
The 2011 awardee was Professor Robert Plomin
Robert has worked extensively in twin research, perhaps most notably leading the TEDS project. More recently he has contributed to molecular genetic work on intelligence. He has authored numerous books, nearing 1000 articles, and presented numerous invited and public talks and debates, advancing the scientific study of intelligence. Several of ...
2010 Lifetime Achievement Award: Tom Bouchard
The Lifetime Achievement Award is ISIR’s highest honor, reserved for individuals who have, over their professional lifetime, substantially advanced the field of intelligence.
The 2010 awardee was Professor Tom Bouchard.
Tom pioneered adopted-apart studies on intelligence, and consistently championed and advanced the scientific study of the genetics of IQ. His work with the Minnesota adoption and twin studies lead to multiple landmark papers in Journals such as Science. He also supervised students who have gone on to considerable achievements in their own right.
