17 results for group: lifetime-achievement-winners
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.
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 ...