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Psychiatry professor and colleague Theo C. Manschreck described Maher as a “pioneer in the field” of psychopathology research and said his book “The Principles of Psychopathology: An Experimental Approach” changed the field of schizophrenia research. Published during a time when most research was focused on description and rating of individual patients, Maher encouraged the use of more systematic experimental psychology methods to study schizophrenia...
...daughter's death, perversely, made his career. His anger spurred an obsession with celebrity justice and helped him pioneer a new genre of journalism--one that was part memoir, part editorial, part fact. He came to love the smell and ambiance of the courtroom and had the ability to put it into your head. During the O.J. Simpson trial, I had dinner with one of the many reporters covering the case. The guy said he was ready to give up. When I asked him why, he replied, "Because Nick's here...
...should he. Bloom is a pioneer when it comes to worker buyouts, in which the employees of a faltering firm buy an ownership stake to prevent plant closings or job losses. The idea of an economy of worker cooperatives may seem utopian, and the notion of using the tools of modern finance to do so absurd. But Bloom and his mentor at Lazard, Eugene Keilin, helped prove it possible—and did so with no less than the largest airline in the nation: United...
Meanwhile, Wilson joined the Harvard faculty a year before Watson in 1955 in the Biology Department, and has since continued as a pioneer in the discipline, discovering scores of insect species over the course of his 60-year career...
Lewis is arguably the pioneer of the telethon - an indelibly American tradition that has since been adapted around the world to benefit various charities. But the first telethons managed to do without Lewis' particular brand of boosterism for a good four years after their debut in 1951, when a "television fund-raising marathon" - you can see why the name was shortened - aired to help raise money for victims of cerebral palsy. The event pulled in the then whopping amount of $276,408 and marked the creation of United Cerebral Palsy Inc. and its annual Weekend with the Stars telethons...