Dorothy Shore Zinberg was an American scholar at

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and an Elected Fellow of the

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. Zinberg taught in the sociology department at Harvard and continued to lecture at the Kennedy School. She trained as a biochemist and sociologist, and was a founding member of the

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at the Kennedy School. Dorothy married Norman Zinberg, with whom she had two daughters, Annie and Sarah, in 1956 until his death in 1989. She maintained a close relationship with

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Biography

Zinberg was the daughter of Ernest and Esther Shore and attended Brookline High School. After graduating she received a

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in biology and chemistry, as well as a

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in sociology from

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. She graduated from

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with a PhD in sociology. She worked as a teaching and research assistant at

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and served as a visiting scholar at numerous international research institutions, including the Institute of Policy and Management at Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, and the National Institute for Science and Technology Policy in Tokyo. Zinberg died Tuesday, April 14, 2020 of congestive heart failure.

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