Roger Brown

Roger William Brown, who lived from 1925 to 1997, was an American psychologist known for his work in social psychology and in the language development of children. He taught at Harvard University from 1952 to 1957 and again from 1962 to 1994, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1957 to 1962. His books include Words and Things, Social Psychology, Psycholinguistics and A First Language: The Early Stages. He mentored many researchers who went on to shape the study of child language and psycholinguistics, among them Steven Pinker, Eleanor Rosch and Ursula Bellugi, and a 2002 survey in Review of General Psychology ranked him the thirty fourth most cited psychologist of the twentieth century.