Michael Rutter
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir Michael Rutter FBA (b. 1933) has been described as the "father of child psychology" [1].
Born in Lebanon, he is an emeritus professor at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. He has published over 38 books and over 400 scientific papers and chapters. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1987, and he was knighted in 1992. He won the Castilla del Pino prize in 1995, the Helmut Horten Foundation prize in 1997, and the Ruane prize in 2000. He has honorary degrees from the Universities of Leiden, Louvain, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Chicago, Minnesota, Ghent, Jyväskylä, Warwick, and East Anglia. The Michael Rutter Centre for Children and Young People, based at the Maudsley Hospital, is named after him. He is well known for the Isle of Wight study which gave us an enormous epidemiological resource.
Cambridge University awarded him an honorary Doctor of Science degree in June 2005.
[edit] External links
 |
This biography of a United Kingdom academic is a stub. You can help by expanding it. |
