POLITICAL SCIENTIST

Sidney Verba

1932 - 2019

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Sidney Verba (May 26, 1932 – March 4, 2019) was an American political scientist, librarian and library administrator. His academic interests were mainly American and comparative politics. He was the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard University and also served Harvard as the director of the Harvard University Library from 1984 to 2007. Verba was educated at Harvard College and Princeton University, and served on the faculty of Princeton, Stanford University, and the University of Chicago, before returning to Harvard, where he would spend the rest of his career. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sidney Verba is the 40th most popular political scientist (down from 37th in 2019), the 9,550th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,843rd in 2019) and the 16th most popular American Political Scientist.

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Among POLITICAL SCIENTISTS

Among political scientists, Sidney Verba ranks 40 out of 46. Before him are Marfa Boretskaya, Karl Deutsch, Carl Joachim Friedrich, Alexis Herman, Adam Przeworski, and Olivier Roy. After him are Cass Sunstein, Katharine Hayhoe, Pippa Norris, Alena V. Ledeneva, Claudine Gay, and Bruce Gilley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Sidney Verba ranks 460. Before him are Aladár Kovácsi, Vasily Belov, Els Borst, Alma Cogan, Gösta Sandberg, and Dániel Magay. After him are Marguerite Pindling, Joe Arpaio, Peter Blake, Dany Carrel, Max Streibl, and Kenneth Appel. Among people deceased in 2019, Sidney Verba ranks 454. Before him are Erik Hartsuiker, Heather Harper, Peter Tork, Ivan Bortnik, Julie Gibson, and Sergio Obeso Rivera. After him are Donald Kalpokas, Borka Pavićević, Stanton T. Friedman, Russi Taylor, Jed Allan, and Johannes Schaaf.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sidney Verba ranks 9,552 out of 20,380. Before him are Curtis Fuller (1934), Julee Cruise (1956), Tim Powers (1952), Kenneth Marshall (1950), Daniel Pipes (1949), and Christie Brinkley (1954). After him are Philander C. Knox (1853), George Inness (1825), Elizabeth J. Feinler (1931), Simon Guggenheim (1867), Veronica Hamel (1943), and Ben Lyon (1901).

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Among POLITICAL SCIENTISTS In United States

Among political scientists born in United States, Sidney Verba ranks 16. Before him are Charles Murray (1943), Norman Finkelstein (1953), William Graham Sumner (1840), Robert D. Putnam (1941), Robert Keohane (1941), and Alexis Herman (1947). After him are Cass Sunstein (1954), and Claudine Gay (1970).

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