ISPG Lifetime Achievement Award winner
Irving I. Gottesman (iig@virginia.edu)
Sun, 26 Oct 1997 12:40:53 -0700
An international committee of the International Society for Psychiatric
Genetics has selected Irving I. Gottesman of the University of Virginia,
where he is the Sherrell J. Aston Professor of Psychology, as the
recipient of their 1997 Lifetime Achievement Award. Gottesman, a
founding Fellow of APS, is the first psychologist to receive the award,
given biannually. The first three scientists were Seymour S. Kety, M.D.
of the NIMH and Harvard University Medical School, George Winokur, M.D.
of the University of Iowa School of Medicine, and Ming Tsuang, M.D. of
Harvard University Medical School. The award [was given] at the meeting
held in Santa Fe, New Mexico October 22. Gottesman, a 1960 Ph.D. in
clinical psychology from the University of Minnesoa, has been involved
in behavioral genetics for the past 40 years.