Henry Felix Kaiser

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Henry Felix Kaiser (born June 7, 1927 in Morristown , New Jersey, † January 14, 1992 in Berkeley , California) was a psychologist and educator who worked in the fields of psychometrics and statistical psychology. At the end of the 1950s, he developed the Varimax method for factor analysis .

life and work

Kaiser studied psychology at the University of California with an interruption due to military service , where he finally obtained his Ph. D. in 1956 with a focus on psychological and educational statistics (English for psychological and educational statistics). In 1957 he would be appointed assistant professor at the University of Illinois , where he became a professor in 1962. In 1965 he went to the University of Wisconsin as a professor of educational psychology. In 1968 he received a call to Berkeley, to the University of California, which he accepted and where he retired in 1984.

Kaiser made fundamental contributions to psychometrics and statistical psychology. His contributions to factor analysis were central. Kaiser was president of the Psychometric Society and the Society for Multivariate Experimental Psychology and editor of the journal Multivariate Behavioral Research

Kaiser was married and had two sons and a daughter.

literature

  • Arthur R. Jensen and Mark Wilson: Henry Felix Kaiser, Education, In: Academic Senate (Ed.): 1992, University of California: In Memoriam , University of California, Berkeley 1992, pp. 88-91, online text on cdlib. org
  • Arthur R. Jensen and Mark Wilson: Henry Felix Kaiser (1927–1992): Obituary. In: American Psychologist , Vol. 49 (12), December 1994, pp. 1085 ff .

Publications

Henry Kaiser: The varimax criterion for analytic rotation in factor analysis, Psychometrika , Springer, New York, Vol. 23 (3), September 1958

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arthur R. Jensen and Mark Wilson: Henry Felix Kaiser, Education, In: Academic Senate (Ed.): 1992, University of California: In Memoriam , University of California, Berkeley 1992, pp. 88-91, online text on cdlib .org
  2. ↑ Arthur R. Jensen and Mark Wilson: Henry Felix Kaiser (1927-1992): Obituary. In: American Psychologist , vol 49 (12), December 1994, pp. 1085 ff .
  3. ↑ Stanley A. Mulaik: Henry Felix Kaiser, Multivariate Behavioral Research , vol. 27 (1), page 159
personal data
SURNAME Kaiser, Henry Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American psychologist in the field of psychometrics and statistical psychology
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Morristown, New Jersey
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1992
Place of death Berkeley, California