Lazarsfeld Family
Lazarsfeld is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Paul Lazarsfeld (1901–1976), Austrian-American sociologist * Robert Lazarsfeld (born 1953), American mathematician * Sophie Lazarsfeld Sophie or Sofie Lazarsfeld (''née'' Munk, May 26, 1881 – September 24, 1976) was an Austrian-American therapist and writer, a student of Alfred Adler. Life Sophie Munk was born in Troppau on May 26, 1881. She married Robert Lazarsfeld, a lawy ...

Paul Lazarsfeld
Paul Felix Lazarsfeld (February 13, 1901August 30, 1976) was an Austrian-American sociologist. The founder of Columbia University's Bureau of Applied Social Research, he exerted influence over the techniques and the organization of social research. "It is not so much that he was an American sociologist," one colleague said of him after his death, "as it was that he determined what American sociology would be." Lazarsfeld said that his goal was "to produce Paul Lazarsfelds". The two main accomplishments he is associated with can be analyzed within two lenses of analysis: research institutes, methodology, as well as his research content itself. He was a founding figure in 20th-century empirical sociology. Austria Lazarsfeld was born to Jewish parents in Vienna: his mother was the Adlerian therapist Sophie Lazarsfeld, and his father Robert was a lawyer. He attended schools in Vienna, eventually receiving a doctorate in mathematics (his doctoral dissertation dealt with mathematica ...
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Robert Lazarsfeld
Robert Kendall Lazarsfeld (born April 15, 1953) is an American mathematician, currently a professor at Stony Brook University. He was previously the Raymond L. Wilder Collegiate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Michigan. He is the son of two sociologists, Paul Lazarsfeld and Patricia Kendall. His research focuses on algebraic geometry. During 2002–2009, Lazarsfeld was an editor at the '' Journal of the American Mathematical Society'' (Managing Editor, 2007–2009). In 2012–2013, he served as the Managing Editor of the ''Michigan Mathematical Journal''. Lazarsfeld went to Harvard for undergraduate studies and earned his doctorate from Brown University in 1980 under supervision of William Fulton. In 2006 Lazarsfeld was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. In 2015 he was awarded the AMS Leroy P. Steele Prize The Leroy P. Steele Prizes are awarded every year by the A ...
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