Eugene Grebenik
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Eugene Grebenik | |
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Ukrainian SSR | |
Died | 14 October 2001 Oxford, England | (aged 82)
Nationality | British |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Demography |
Eugene Grebenik
Early life and education
Grebenik was born in
He attended the Xaverian College Catholic high school in Brighton.[1]
Grebenik went to the London School of Economics in 1935 aged sixteen, and graduated with a first-class degree in economics (with statistics and demography as his special subject) at eighteen.[1] He earned the Farr medal and prize.
Career
After a brief spell working in the
Promoted to lecturer in statistics in 1944, Grebenik was seconded to the Admiralty for the final year of
Grebenik worked with
In 1970 Grebenik was appointed the first principal of the Civil Service College at Sunningdale. He left the college in 1976 to conduct research at the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, working with Abraham Manie Adelstein and John Fox, where he remained until he retired in 1984.
Grebenik was secretary-general of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population from 1963 to 1973. He organised three of the IUSSP's four-yearly general population conferences, including the one held in Belgrade in 1965 in conjunction with the second United Nations world population conference. He was also president of the British Society for Population Studies from 1979 to 1981. Among other honours, In 1997, he was the first recipient of the Olivia Schieffelin Nordberg award from the Population Council in New York.
He and Virginia had three children: Michael, Peter and Catherine.
References
- ^ S2CID 45673315.
- ^ Biography of Virginia Grebenik, 2006, retrieved 18 February 2014
- ^ England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005, vol. 5d, United Kingdom: General Register Office, p. 865
Other sources
- Coleman, D. A. (2003). "Eugene Grebenik". S2CID 58847137.
- Kirk, Maurice (6 December 2001). "Eugene Grebenik: A versatile demographer in pursuit of truth". The Guardian.