Awards & Winners

Howard Gruber

Date of Birth 06-November-1922
Place of Birth Brooklyn
(United States of America, New York City, New York, New York-White Plains-Wayne, NY-NJ Metropolitan Division)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Howard E. Gruber, Howard Ernest Gruber
Profession Author, Psychologist
Howard Ernest Gruber, an American psychologist, was a pioneer of the psychological study of creativity. A native of Brooklyn, Gruber graduated from Brooklyn College with a degree in psychology, earned his Ph.D. from Cornell University, and went on to a distinguished academic career. He worked with Jean Piaget in Geneva and later co-founded the Institute for Cognitive Studies at Rutgers with Dorothy Dinnerstein. At Columbia University Teachers College, he continued to pursue his interests in the history of science, and particularly the work of Charles Darwin. Gruber's work led to several important discoveries about the creative process and the developmental psychology of creativity. His work on Charles Darwin entitled Darwin on Man: A Psychological Study of Scientific Creativity, became the groundwork of his methodological approach for the case study of evolving systems. This book was awarded Science Book of the Year for 1974 by Phi Beta Kappa. Key aspects of this approach are a radical focus on individuals as situated in a network of enterprise. The method uses a strong existential perspective as regards the "creative" individual who is said to act at all times with knowledge, purpose and affect. Creativity is purposeful work.

Awards by Howard Gruber

Check all the awards nominated and won by Howard Gruber.

1982


Nominations 1982 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Science (Paperback) Darwin on Man

1975


Nominations 1975 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for The Sciences Darwin on Man