Kinesy~
Alfred
Charles Kinsey was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, June 23, 1894.
He attended Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine (1914-1916), graduating
magna cum laude with a B.S. in biology and psychology. He received
his Sc.D. in biology from Harvard University in September 1919,
and came to Indiana University as an assistant professor of zoology
in August 1920.
He
established a solid academic reputation for his biology tests
and his research in taxonomy and evolution. By 1937, American
Men of Science listed him as one of their "starred" scientists.
Then
in 1938, Kinsey took over coordination of the new marriage course
at Indiana University, and soon after began gathering case histories
of sexual behavior.
In
1940, President Wells gave Kinsey a choice: to continue either
with the marriage course or with his sexuality research project.
Kinsey and his staff collected over 18,000 interviews, and published
Sexual Behavior in the Human Male in 1948 and Sexual Behavior
in the Human Female in 1953.
He
died in 1956 at the age of 62.
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