Humanities & Social Sciences
- Francis Dvornik, Moravia-born, authority on Byzantine history, Slavic history and civilization.
- Saul Friedländer, Prague-born, award-winning historian, currently a professor of history at UCLA.
- Ales Hrdlicka, founder of American physical anthropology.
- Paul Felix Lazarsfeld, of Moravian ancestry, founder of modern empirical sociology.
- Richard Neustadt, of Bohemian ancestry, political scientist at Harvard; first director of J.F. Kennedy Inst. of Politics.
- Beardsley Ruml, of Czech immigrant father, economist, devised plan to collect taxes at their source by means of a payroll deduction system, on a pay as you go basis.
- Joseph Alois Schumpeter, Moravia-born, notable economist at Harvard University.
- Jan Švejnar, Prague-born, notable economist.
- Frank William Taussig, of Czech ancestry, economist and educator, credited with creating the foundations of modern trade theory.
- René Wellek, of Czech father, founder of literary criticism and comparative literature.
- Max Wertheimer, a Czech-born psychologist who was one of the founders of Gestalt psychology.
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