He was study director for the Gallup Organization from 1958 to 1977.
John Petersen, the college's environmental studies director, checked out the house's wiring.
"He was the chief architect of the study," said Dr. William B. Kannel, who succeeded Dr. Dawber as the study director in 1966.
"The Afghan community is extremely divided, largely along ethnic lines," said Barnett Rubin, studies director at New York University's Center on International Cooperation.
Dr. Larry Spruill, a historian, museum curator and social studies director for the Mount Vernon Public Schools, received the John Henry Harmon History Award, named for an African-American historian and economist.
Great Lakes water levels are near historic lows, approaching the low point of a natural cycle that Ted Yuzyk, a study director for Canada, is still not yet well understood.
I met with Roland Griffiths, professor of behavioural biology and of neuroscience and the study director at the BPRU, after each day's battery of tests.
"It's an insider's view," said Joann Sorra, senior study director at Westat, a private research company, who led the A.R.H.Q.
Correction: January 10 , 2002 Thursday An article in Science Times on Dec. 25 about research into the lives of people who live to age 100 misstated the years that the study director, Dr. Thomas T. Perls, held a geriatrics fellowship at Harvard.
His academic career began with a history degree and PhD at Cambridge and took him eventually to New York University, where he was the Erich Maria Remarque professor in European studies, director of the Remarque Institute and a renowned teacher.
