Srully Blotnick ( – ) was an American

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and

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.Thomson Gale (April 26, 2006). Biography - Blotnick, Srully (D.) (1941-). ''Contemporary Authors'' Notable books include ''Getting Rich Your Own Way,'' ''Computers Made Ridiculously Easy,'' ''The Corporate Steeplechase: Predictable Crises in a Business Career,'' ''Otherwise Engaged: The Private Lives of Successful Career Women,'' and ''Ambitious Men: Their Drives, Dreams and Delusions.''

Education

An expert swimmer, Blotnick first attended the

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, but he later transferred to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for math. After receiving his BS degree, he attended the

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, and then

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, where he received his MA in math and physics, with honors. His interest in mathematical models in sociology took him to

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where a survey was being conducted, funded by the

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and he joined a team of researchers. The head of the project died suddenly and the team was left leaderless, unfunded, so Blotnick joined a Wall Street firm for the next 7 years as a research analyst, but his interest in the study continued and he began to write books on the topics. He became a business psychology columnist for ''

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'' magazine and began writing social science books.

Later life

Srully was admitted as a graduate student to the cell biology program at

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, the oldest graduate student ever accepted, and received his PhD in cell biology in 1994. While there he published several peer-reviewed contributions to the biomedical field,Peoples GE et al
T lymphocytes that infiltrate tumors and atherosclerotic plaques produce heparin-binding epidermal growth factor-like growth factor and basic fibroblast growth factor: A potential pathologic role.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Vol. 92, pp. 6547-6551, July 1995 Immunology. and subsequently was a post-doctoral fellow. Blotnick died of pulmonary fibrosis in 2004, in

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References

External links

Review of Srully Blotnick's books
by Harley Hahn. {{DEFAULTSORT:Blotnick, Srully 1941 births 2004 deaths University of Miami alumni Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni Princeton University alumni Columbia University staff Harvard Medical School alumni 20th-century American male writers