17 results for group: lifetime-achievement-winners
2019: Camilla Benbow and David Lubinski
ISIR awarded Professors Camilla Benbow and David Lubinski the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Intelligence. Congratulations to them both.
Professors Camilla Benbow and David Lubinski are best known for leading the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY). This study is globally unique: five cohorts of intellectually talented youth identified over 25 years (1972-1997) and longitudinally tracked throughout their lifespan. Their work has identified educationally efficacious interventions for meeting the learning needs of gifted youth, which also contributes to their occupational success and ...
2017: James Flynn
The 2017 winner for ISIR's Lifetime Achievement Award was Professor James (Jim) Flynn.
Professor Flynn is a renowned Political Scientist. His work on cognitive ability and IQ incorporates his background in philosophy and political science. He is best known for his discovery that IQ has been increasing across most of the last century in the West. Always ready to improve his, and our, understanding of the causes and consequences of cognitive ability in society, his lifetime award speech addressed the possibility that, while IQ is still rising in the developing world, it may now be declining, especially at the highest levels, in multiple countries in ...
2016: K. Warner Schaei
The 2016 awardee for ISIR's Lifetime Achievement Award was Professor K Warner Schaie, founder of the Seattle Longitudinal Study.
Professor Schaie's work link gerontology with social and psychological science. Realizing the need for longitudinal research, he founded the Seattle Longitudinal Study. Since the 1950s, this work has revealed complex patterns of preservation, decline, and advance, alongside links to lifestyle and social factors. Alongside the ISIR award, Schaie has been honoured by the Gerontological Society of America, APA, and Mensa.
2015: John Loehlin
The 2015 awardee for ISIR's Lifetime Achievement Award was Professor John Loehlin.
Professor Loehlin has contributed to statistics (he has a multi-edition book on structural equation modeling), computational modeling (he wrote some of the earliest simulations in psychology, twin research - he still publishes actively in this field, and, of course in intelligence. He assembled one of the first large twin studies, and over decades now, has contributed some of the most innovative, rigorous, courageous, and poetic work in differential psychology.
2014: Ian Deary
The 2014 awardee for ISIR's Lifetime Achievement Award 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 cognitive abilities. There are still many miles to go on that road. My research changed a lot in the 1990s, when we stumbled on the Scottish Mental Surveys’ data. Since then, I’ve assembled research teams to try to ...