Henry Riecken, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American psychologist
Date of Birth: 11-Nov-1917
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Date of Death: 27-Dec-2012
Profession: psychologist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Henry Riecken
- Henry William Riecken (November 11, 1917 – December 27, 2012) was an American psychologist. Riecken was born on November 11, 1917, and was raised in Brooklyn.
- He obtained a bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1939, and completed a master's degree in psychology from the University of Connecticut in 1941.
- Following his service in the United States Army Air Forces in the midst of World War II, Riecken earned a doctorate from the Harvard University Department of Social Relations in 1949.
- He began teaching at Harvard upon finishing his doctoral studies and later joined the University of Minnesota faculty.
- Riecken left Minnesota for Washington, D.
- C.
- in 1958, where he became the first director of the social science division of the National Science Foundation.
- Between 1966 and 1968, Riecken was vice president of the Social Science Research Council, and succeeded Edward Pendleton Herring as president in 1968, serving in that position until 1971.
- The next year, Riecken joined the University of Pennsylvania faculty.
- He taught at Penn as the Francis Boyer Professor of Behavioral Sciences until 1985.
- Riecken returned to Washington D.
- C.
- as adviser to the Council on Library Resources and other nonprofit, educational organizations.
- He was a fellow of the American Psychological Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.Riecken was married to Frances Manson Brown from 1955 to her death in 2011.
- The couple had three children.
- Henry Riecken died of intestinal cancer on December 27, 2012, at an assisted living facility in Washington, D.
- C.
- He was 95.
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