Demographer warren thompson biography definition
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Thompson, Warren S.
(1887–1973)
Warren Simpson Thompson received his Ph.D. in sociology from Columbia University in 1915. As a student of the sociologists Alvan A. Tenney and Franklin Giddings, and the statistician Robert E.
Chaddock, he developed an early interest in international population trends and in problems associated with rapid population growth. In his dissertation, Population: A Study in Malthusianism (1915), he argued that U.S.
population growth rates directly responded to changes in the food supply.
Demographer warren thompson biography definition
In the early 1920s, Edward W. Scripps, the newspaper publisher, grew concerned about population and sought out Thompson on the basis of his dissertation. After a tour of Asia aboard Scripps's yacht, Thompson agreed to head the first foundation exclusively focused on the study of population.
The Scripps Foundation for Research in Population Problems, located at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, in Scripps's home county of Butler, was established in 1922. Pascal Kidder W