Paul Lazarsfeld

Paul Felix Lazarsfeld was an Austrian-American sociologist and mathematician. The founder of Columbia University's Bureau of Applied Social Research, he exerted influence over the techniques and the organization of social research. "It is not so much that he was an American sociologist," one colleague said of him after his death, "as it was that he determined what American sociology would be." Lazarsfeld said that his goal was "to produce Paul Lazarsfelds". He was a founding figure in 20th-century empirical sociology.

13 February 1901

Born on the same birth day (13 February): Carlos Cotto • Fonzworth Bentley • Jaden Ivey • Jeanne Demessieux • Joseph Devlin • Karoline Krüger • Lord Randolph Churchill • Marian Dawkins • Pernilla August • Sonia (singer) • Thomas Robert Malthus • Vera Baird • William Sleator

Born in the same month (February 1901): Brian Donlevy • Chester Morris • Frank Buckles • Jascha Heifetz • Louis Kahn • Marino Marini (sculptor) • René Dubos • Yoshikazu Okada • Zeppo Marx