Conrad Taeuber

Irene B. Taeuber and Conrad Taeuber were leading figures in American demography for nearly 50 years. For most of her life, Irene Taeuber worked at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., and was also a staff member of the Office of Population Research, Princeton University. Her major interest afficher plus was in the demography of East Asia, and her masterpiece The Population of Japan has been widely acclaimed as the best volume on the demography of one country ever produced. Conrad Taeuber was one of the able professionals attracted to Washington in the early days of the Roosevelt administration; he served in the Department of Agriculture from 1935 to 1946, at the United Nations from 1946 to 1951, and at the Bureau of the Census from 1951 to 1973, where he was associate director and the major architect of the 1960 and 1970 censuses, The Changing Population of the United States and People of the United States in the Twentieth Century. Together, their work went far toward establishing demography as a scientific discipline and as a source of information crucial to modern government. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins