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Benson Ginsburg (Benson Earl Ginsburg) was born on 16 July, 1918 in Detroit, Michigan, is an American geneticist. Discover Benson Ginsburg's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 98 years old?

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Age 98 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 16 July, 1918
Birthday 16 July
Birthplace Detroit, Michigan
Date of death 17 August, 2016
Died Place Storrs, Connecticut
Nationality United States

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His wife is Pearl Miner (m. 1941-1998)

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Children Faye Ginsburg Judy Meyer Deborah Szajnberg

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1918

Benson Earl Ginsburg (July 16, 1918 – August 17, 2016) was an American behavior geneticist who taught at the University of Chicago and the University of Connecticut.

He was a co-founder of the Behavior Genetics Association.

Ginsburg was born on July 16, 1918, in Detroit, Michigan.

His parents, Sonia and Morris Ginsburg, were both recently arrived Jewish immigrants from Russia.

He received his undergraduate education at Wayne State University, where he was originally a journalism major, before switching to majoring in English, and then becoming a biology major in the second semester of his junior year.

1939

He graduated from Wayne State cum laude in 1939, and received his master's degree from there in 1941.

1941

Ginsburg married Pearl on August 29, 1941; they were married until her death in 1998.

They had three children: Judy, Deborah, and Faye.

1943

He then enrolled in a summer class in zoology at the University of Chicago, where he received his Ph.D. in 1943 under the supervision of Sewall Wright.

1946

Ginsburg joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in 1946, where he helped develop an undergraduate natural science program, of which he was later the chair.

Also in 1946, he and his family began taking summer trips to Bar Harbor, Maine, and he began conducting research at the Jackson Laboratory in mice and rabbits.

1956

Ginsburg was a two-time fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences: once in 1956 and once in 1965.

He was also a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Society, the Animal Behavior Society, and the International Society for Research on Aggression.

1963

In 1963, he was appointed the William Rainey Harper Professor of Biology at the University of Chicago, a position he held until leaving the university's faculty in 1968.

1969

That year, he joined the faculty of the University of Connecticut, where he co-founded the Department of Biobehavioral Sciences in 1969.

He headed this department from 1969 to 1985.

1971

He played a major role in founding the Behavior Genetics Association, and hosted its first meeting on the University of Connecticut's campus in 1971.

1980

He continued to conduct research at the Jackson Laboratory every summer until the 1980s.

In 1980, he received the Dobzhansky Memorial Award from the Behavior Genetics Association.

1997

He retired from the University of Connecticut in 1997, after which he became an emeritus professor there; he remained an active researcher even after his retirement.

Ginsburg conducted research in many different animal species, including fruit flies, dogs, mice, and humans.

Early in his career, while at the University of Chicago, he began researching the behavior genetics of mice before moving to research coyotes and subsequently wolves.

His initial goal was to breed wolves that did not display the aggressive behavior characteristic of their wild counterparts.

He subsequently continued this research at the University of Connecticut, where he started the Wolf Project in a protected enclosure on the university's campus.

This nine-year project aimed, among other things, to assess the behavioral factors that underlie mating dynamics in wolves.

2001

In 2001, he received the International Behavioral and Neural Genetics Society's Award for pioneering and continuing contributions to the field.

2016

Benson Ginsburg died on August 17, 2016, in Storrs, Connecticut, at the age of 98.