Sidney Verba
Comparative politics, Academic
1932 –
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Who is Sidney Verba?
Sidney Verba is an American political scientist, librarian and library administrator. His academic interests are mainly American and comparative politics. He was the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard University. He also served Harvard as the director of the Harvard University Library from 1984 to 2007. As he gave notice of his intention to retire in 2006, Verba observed: "Academics are the only people I can think of for whom this sentence makes sense: 'I'm hoping to get some time off so that I can get some work done.'"
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- Born
- May 26, 1932
New York City - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- PhD, Princeton University
Social science
( - 1959)
- PhD, Princeton University
- Employment
- Harvard University
- Lived in
- Massachusetts
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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