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Name
  
Frank Notestein


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Died
  
February 19, 1983, Langhorne, Pennsylvania, United States

Education
  
Princeton University, Cornell University, College of Wooster

Organizations founded
  
Office of Population Research

Frank Wallace Notestein (August 16, 1902 – February 19, 1983) was an American demographer who contributed significantly to the development of the science. He was the founding director of the Office of Population Research at Princeton University, and later president of the Population Council. He was also the first director of the Population Division of the United Nations, 1946–1948.

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Education and career

Notestein attended Alma College, and received a BS from the College of Wooster in 1923. He went to graduate school at Cornell University, and received a PhD in economics in 1927.

Books

  • The Future Population of Europe and the Soviet Union: Population Projections, 1940–1970 (membership required for full access). with Irene B. Taeuber, Dudley Kirk, Ansley J. Coale, and Louise K. Kiser. Geneva: League of Nations. 1944. Retrieved 2008-06-29. 

    • Papers

  • Notestein, Frank W. 1953. "Economic problems of population change", in Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference of Agricultural Economists. London: Oxford University Press, pp. 13–31.[1]

    • References

    Frank W. Notestein Wikipedia
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