14 Facts About Harriet Zuckerman

Harriet Anne Zuckerman was born on July 19,1937 and is an American sociologist and professor emerita of Columbia University.

Harriet Zuckerman is known for her work on the social organization of science, scientific elites, the accumulation of advantage, the Matthew effect, and the phenomenon of multiple discovery.

Harriet Zuckerman is known as an authority for her studies of educational programs, and her support of research universities, scholarship in the humanities, graduate educational programs, research libraries, and other centers for advanced study.

Harriet Zuckerman held a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship from 1958 to 1959.

Harriet Zuckerman returned to Columbia University an assistant professor of sociology in 1965, where she served as Project Director of the Bureau of Applied Social Research.

Harriet Zuckerman became an associate professor in 1972, and a Full Professor in 1978.

Harriet Zuckerman chaired the Sociology department from 1978 to 1982.

Harriet Zuckerman retired from the Vice Presidency in May 2010.

Harriet Zuckerman's research has focused on the social organization of science and scholarship.

Harriet Zuckerman is the author of the 1977 book, Scientific Elite: Nobel Laureates in the United States, which has been credited with defining the direction of work in the field for the next two decades.

The empirical data Zuckerman analyzed, along with work by Robert K Merton and others, documented ways in which women scientists were "systematically disadvantaged in educational attainment, productivity, funding, lab space, and recognition".

Harriet Zuckerman further examined conditions and processes influencing the introduction and adoption of scientific ideas in later work.

Harriet Zuckerman is a Fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Guggenheim Fellow, among others.

Harriet Zuckerman is a member of the American Philosophical Society.