Harriet Zuckerman

Harriet A. Zuckerman
Born(1937-07-19)July 19, 1937
New York City, US
Alma materVassar College, Columbia University
AwardsFellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1979) & American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1985).
Scientific career
FieldsSociology of science
InstitutionsColumbia University, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
External videos
video icon Harriet Zuckerman, 20th Anniversary Symposium—Exhibitions Research Teaching: The Bard Graduate Center at Twenty, November 14, 2013.

Harriet Anne Zuckerman (born July 19, 1937) is an American sociologist and professor emerita of Columbia University.[1]

Zuckerman specializes in the sociology of science.[2] She 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.

Zuckerman served as the Senior Vice President of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation from 1991 to 2010, overseeing the Foundation's grant program in support of research, libraries and universities. She 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.[3]

  1. ^ Reports of the President and of the Treasurer. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 1980. p. 116. Retrieved May 24, 2021.
  2. ^ Synonyms for the term "sociology of science" include "science of science" ("Science of Science Cyberinfrastructure Portal... at Indiana University" Archived February 19, 2013, at the Wayback Machine; Maria Ossowska and Stanisław Ossowski, "The Science of Science," 1935, reprinted in Bohdan Walentynowicz, ed., Polish Contributions to the Science of Science, Boston, D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1982, pp. 82-95) and the back-formed term "logology" (Christopher Kasparek, "Prus' Pharaoh: the Creation of a Historical Novel", The Polish Review, vol. XXXIX, no. 1, 1994, note 3, pp. 45-46; Stefan Zamecki, Komentarze do naukoznawczych poglądów Williama Whewella (1794–1866): studium historyczno-metodologiczne [Commentaries to the Logological Views of William Whewell (1794–1866): A Historical-Methodological Study], Warsaw, Polish Academy of Sciences, 2012, ISBN 978-83-86062-09-6, [English-language] summary, pp. 741-43). The term "logology" provides convenient grammatical variants not available with the earlier terms: i.e., "logologist", "to logologize", "logological", "logologically".
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Mellon was invoked but never defined (see the help page).