17 results for group: lifetime-achievement-winners
2013: Linda Gottfredson
ISIR's 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award winner was Professor Linda Gottfredson, professor emeritus of educational psychology at the University of Delaware and co-director of the Delaware-Johns Hopkins Project for the Study of Intelligence and Society. She is best known for her work on the relationships between intelligence and health, everyday life, social inequality, and employment testing and job aptitude demands, and for writing the 1994 letter "Mainstream Science on Intelligence".
2012: Timothy Salthouse
The 2012 awardee of ISIR's Lifetime Achievement Award 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: 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.
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.
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 ...