Bernice Levin Neugarten

(1916-2001) born in Norfolk. Psychologist, educator, author, considered founder of academic field of adult development and aging, and the first to receive a doctorate in 1943 in human development, she became recognized for her interdisciplinary approach to her field and her investigations of attitudes toward the physiology and psychology of menopause; authored or co-authored eight books, 150 articles, and many scientific and public lectures; recipient of more than 25 awards and honors, and elected to Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, in 1982. Consult Agnes O'Connell and Nancy Russo, Women in Psychology: A Bio-Bibliographic Sourcebook (Greenwood Press, 1990) 256-265 and Dail A. Neugarten ed, The Meanings of Age: Selected Works of Bernice Neugarten (University of Chicago Press, 1996) and Biographical Dictionary of Psychology (Routledge, 1997) 423-424 and New York Times obituary, July 20, 2001, p. B-6.

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