Nathan Keyfitz

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Nathan Keyfitz (born June 29, 1913 in Montreal , Canada , † April 6, 2010 in Cambridge (Massachusetts) ) was a Canadian demographer . Keyfitz is considered to be the founder of mathematical demography.

Career

Keyfitz graduated from McGill University in 1934 with a degree in mathematics . His first job as a statistician was in 1936 at the Dominion Bureau of Statistics in Ottawa , which was incorporated into Statistics Canada in 1971. Keyfitz stayed for 23 years at the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, where he studied, among other things, the Canadian population development using mathematical models. In addition, Keyfitz did his doctorate at the University of Chicago on the fertility of the Canadian population and received a doctorate in sociology in 1951 .

In 1961 Keyfitz accepted his first academic position at the University of Toronto . This was followed by positions at the University of Montreal , the University of Chicago and the University of California before he became Professor of Demography and Sociology at Harvard University in 1972 . From September 1973 to January 1975 he headed the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies and was also a member of the Department of Population Sciences at the Harvard School of Public Health . In 1983 Keyfitz left Harvard and first became director and later president (until 1993) of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg .

Fonts (selection)

  • Introduction to the Mathematics of Population (Addison-Wesley, 1968)
  • World Population: An Analysis of Vital Data (with Wilhelm Flieger, Univ. Of Chicago Press, 1968)
  • Population: Facts and Methods of Demography (with Wilhelm Flieger, WH Freeman and Company, 1971)
  • Applied Mathematical Demography (Springer-Verlag, 1977)
  • Population Change and Social Policy (Abt Books, 1982)
  • World Population Growth and Aging: Demographic Trends in the Late Twentieth Century (with Wilhelm Flieger, Univ. Of Chicago Press, 1990)

Awards

Nathan Keyfitz received the title of Fellow a. a. from the Royal Society of Canada , the Royal Statistical Society , the American Statistical Society , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Sciences . In 1976 Keyfitz received the Mindel C. Sheps Award, followed in 1991 by the Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service. Nathan Keyfitz has received seven honorary doctorates over the course of his career. In 2013, a Symposium on Mathematical Demography was held in his honor at Ohio State University .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Professor Nathan Keyfitz dies at 96. In: Harvard Gazette. Retrieved October 24, 2015.
  2. ^ Nathan Keyfitz. Population Association of America . Retrieved October 24, 2015.
  3. ↑ harvard.edu, April 15, 2010: Nathan Keyfitz, pioneer in applying math to the study of populations, dies. Harvard School of Public Health . Retrieved August 18, 2018.
  4. ^ Nathan Keyfitz | Memorial Minute - Faculty of Arts and Sciences Harvard Gazette. Retrieved October 29, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Keyfitz, Nathan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian demographer
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreal , Canada
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 2010
Place of death Cambridge , Massachusetts