Louis Guttman

Louis ( Eliyahu ) Guttman ( born February 10, 1916 in Brooklyn, New York City; † October 25, 1987 in Minneapolis ) was a social researcher of Jewish origin, who was born in the U.S. and in 1947 emigrated to Palestine. He is the developer of the eponymous Guttman scale and the Kaiser- Guttman criterion.

Life

Guttman grew up in the Jewish community of Minneapolis on ( where he died during a holiday ). He studied at the University of Minnesota and received there in 1936, the academic title BA, 1939, MA and 1942 with a thesis on the sociological and psychological measurement method the Ph.D.. From 1941 to 1947 he was Professor of Sociology Cornell University. During the Second World War, he also worked as a consultant for the U.S. Army.

As a self-confessed Zionists immigrated Guttman and his wife Ruth in 1947, shortly before the creation of Israel, to Palestine. Since 1955, Guttman was a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he founded the Institute of Social Sciences, he served as director until his death. In 1978 he was awarded the Israel Prize.

Guttman is considered one of the great pioneers of empirical social research.

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