Victor H. Denenberg (April 3, 1925 – July 19, 2008) was an American developmental psychobiologist. He obtained his

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in 1953 from

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, where he became

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and remained through 1969. In 1969 he became a professor at the

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at Storrs, in the newly formed program in Biobehavioral Sciences, of which he was the head from 1984 to 2000. After his retirement in 2000, he became a professor emeritus at the

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. Denenberg published over 400 scholarly papers and book chapters and trained over 70 M.S. and Ph.D. students. He was an academic icon of his era.

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