Alfred Kinsey ( New Jersey , 23 as June as 1894 – Indiana , 25 as August as 1956 ) was an American psychologist and entomologist, famous for his studies of human sexuality.
Summary
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- 1 Biographical synthesis
- 1 Career path
- 2 Death
- 2 Sources
Biographical synthesis
He studied at Bowdoin College and Harvard University . He worked at Indiana University where he was appointed Professor of Zoology in 1929 . During those years he investigated mainly the taxonomy of the gall wasp.
Career path
In 1920 he worked as a professor at Indiana University, of which he was a professor nine years later. In the 1930s , he conducted several biological explorations around Mexico and Central America. These explorations provided him with the necessary material to carry out a great scientific work, of great international recognition, on the gall of the wasp of the genus Synips and the origin of the species.
In 1938 he changed the course of his research, as he was commissioned to carry out, for the Rockefeller Foundation, a profound investigation on sexuality in the human being, which took many years of study. A first study allowed him to publish the results obtained on research on male sexual behavior (1948), and later on female sexual behavior ( 1953 ). Both obtained great popularity, especially the first, with countless supporters and detractors of their theories, and today these publications are known as the Kinsey report.
Death
Alfred Charles Kinsey died on August 25 , 1956 in Bloomington, Indiana .
The Kinsey Institute, founded by him, edited additional work under the direction of his collaborators.
