Bert Green *51

Bert Green, retired professor of psychology at Johns Hopkins University, died July 1, 2019 at age 91.

Green graduated from Yale with a degree in mathematics in 1949. In 1951, he earned a Ph.D. in psychology from Princeton. He worked as a staff member and then as a group leader at the Lincoln Lab at MIT; as a computer science consultant for the Rand Corp.; as professor of psychology and department head at Carnegie Mellon University; as a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavior Sciences; and as professor of psychology at Johns Hopkins from 1969 until retiring in 1998.

From 1990 to 1991, he took a sabbatical in Monterey, Calif., to work with the personal testing division of the Defense Manpower Center, continuing the work he had done from 1983 to 1989 on the performance of military personnel. Green had written more than 100 research articles, served as editor of Psychometrika from 1972 to 1980, and was president of the Psychometric Society in 1965 and Division 5 of the American Psychological Association in 1978.

He was honored by Division 5 for distinguished lifetime contributions in 1997, by the Association of Test Publications in 2001, and by the American Educational Research Association in 2001.

Green is survived by two sons, a grandson, and his former wife, Becki Gentry.

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