title: Richard Michael Suzman (1942-2015).
abstract: Presents an obituary for Richard Michael Suzman, who died on April 16, 2015. Suzman was trained as a sociologist and anthropologist, but he was attracted to the approaches of demography and economics. He came to know a great deal about diverse fields of science, including health, physiology, psychology, genetics, and economics. He was a scientific leader who was on a quest to develop new transdisciplinary fields and to mobilize the best scientists to work in them. Suzman's passion for transdisciplinary science was fully expressed in his greatest achievement: the famous Health and Retirement Survey (HRS), which he initiated in 1988 and continued to guide and inspire. (PsycINFO Database Record
authors: Princeton University.
authors: Daniel
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authors: Kahneman
mesh_terms: D000883:Anthropology / Q000266:history; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D011584:Psychology / Q000266:history*; D012961:Sociology / Q000266:history