Immanuel Wallerstein
Sign in to saveAmerican sociologist and economic historian (1930–2019)
Person
- Born
- 1930-09-28
- Died
- 2019-08-31
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- Total plays
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5 total works indexed
- Many-body physics with ultracold gases
· 2008 · cited 7,001x
- Quantum phase transition from a superfluid to a Mott insulator in a gas of ultracold atoms
· 2002 · cited 5,022x
- Dimensionality reduction for visualizing single-cell data using UMAP
· 2018 · cited 4,808x
- Critique of Pure Reason
· 1998 · cited 2,815x
- Quantum simulations with ultracold quantum gases
· 2012 · cited 1,911x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1930-09-28 ) September 28, 1930, New York City , U.S.
- Died
- August 31, 2019 (2019-08-31) (aged 88), Branford, Connecticut , U.S.
- Known for
- World-systems theory
- Spouse
- Beatrice Friedman
- Children
- Katharine Wallerstein, Robert Morgenstern, Susan Morgenstern
- Alma mater
- Columbia University (BA: 1951, MA: 1954, PhD: 1959)
- Thesis
- The Emergence of Two West African Nations: Ghana and the Ivory Coast (1959)
- Doctoral advisor
- Hans L Zetterberg [ sv ] , Robert Staughton Lynd
- Discipline
- Sociologist , Historian
- Sub discipline
- Historical sociology , Comparative sociology , World-systems theory
- Institutions
- Columbia University , McGill University , Binghamton University , École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales , Yale University
Key dates
- Born
- 28 September 1930
- Died
- 31 August 2019
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Maurice
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New York City
- Place of death
- Branford
- Educated at
- Columbia University
- Employer
- Yale University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
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Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (/ˈwɔːlərstiːn/ also /ˈwɔːlərstaɪn/; September 28, 1930 – August 31, 2019) was an American sociologist and economic historian. He is perhaps best known for his development in sociology of world-systems approach. He was a Senior Research Scholar at Yale University from 2000 until his death in 2019, and published bimonthly syndicated commentaries through Agence Global on world affairs from October 1998 to July 2019.
He was the 13th president of International Sociological Association (1994–1998).
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