Lerner, Daniel, 1917-1980

found: RLIN, 2/17/98(hdg.: Lerner, Daniel; Lerner, Daniel, 1917- ; usage: Daniel Lerner)

found: Contemporary authors, New Revision series, v. 6(b. Oct. 30, 1917, d. May 1, 1980)

found: Wikipedia, 7 April 2017(Daniel Lerner; Daniel Lerner (1917 - 1980); Daniel Tom Lerner; was an American scholar and writer known for his studies on moderization theory; influential in launching the study and practice of media development and development communication; writer and academic; B.A. and Ph.D., New York University)

found: Shah, H. The production of modernization, 2011:pages 26-28 (Daniel Tom Lerner; was born in Brooklyn, New York, on October 30, 1917; enrolled in Johns Hopkins University (1934) intending to become a physician; left Johns Hopkins when his father died; enrolled at New York University and earned a Bachelor's degree in English (1939); taught coursees in the English Department at NYU and took classes in Russian and Arabic, adding to a multilingual backgournd that included French, Yiddish and German; served in the U.S. Army during World War II; after returning from the war, took a position at the Hoover Institute for War, Revolution, and Peace, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California); research director for a project called Revolution and the Development of International Relations (RADIR); while at Stanford, accepted visiting positions at Columbia University; durning summer 1953, he got a position at MIT in the new Center for International Studies (CENIS); retired from MIT (1977) at age fifty-nine; took a position as adjunct professor of Sociology at University of California-Santa Cruz (early 1978) passing away seventeen months later on May 1, 1980)