14 results for group: lifetime-achievement-winners
2006: Arthur Jensen
The 2006 awardee of ISIR's Lifetime Achievement Award was Professor Arthur Jensen.
Art Jensen was professor of educational psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. Author of over 400 scientific papers and half a dozen books, he was best known for his research in psychometrics, educational psychology and academic achievement, mental chronometry, and the role of genetics in human behavior. He sat on the editorial boards of the journals Intelligence and Personality and Individual Differences.
The field of intelligence research lost Arthur Jensen in 2012. In his obituary, James Flynn best summed up his contributions:
"The question ...
2007: Doug Detterman
The 2007 awardee of ISIR's Lifetime Achievement Award was Professor Douglas K. Detterman.
Doug researches intelligence and mental retardation. A professor at Case Western Reserve University, he founded the journal Intelligence, and remains editor in chief. He also founded this society and was its President until 2011.
2009: Earl “Buz” Hunt
ISIR's 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award was given to Earl B. Hunt. Professor Hunt was best known for his research on the implications of individual differences in intelligence in a high-technology society. During his long and productive career, he held professorships at Yale, UCLA, University of Sydney and the University of Washington, where he spent the majority of his career and where he co-founded the computer science department. His book Will We be Smart Enough? A Cognitive Analysis of the Coming Workforce, which described demographic projections and psychometric research as they relate to predictions of possible future workplaces, received the ...
2010: Tom Bouchard
The 2010 awardee of ISIR's Lifetime Achievement Award 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.
2011: Robert Plomin
The 2011 awardee of ISIR's Lifetime Achievement Award 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 his students now also occupy research positions, working in individual differences.