He focused intently on categorizing and numbering his specimens, but longed to take his scientific investigation a step further.
From 1926 to 1929, he took field trips all over the country with his students, collecting tens of thousands of gall wasp specimens along the way. Shortly after earning his doctorate at Harvard, Kinsey accepted a job as a professor in the zoology department at Indiana University in Bloomington. A specialist in botany and insects, through his research, Kinsey established himself as the No. He met his future wife, Clara McMillan, at a zoology department picnic that same year. In 1920, Kinsey received a doctorate degree in biology from Harvard University. He worked to fund his undergraduate education while attending Bowdoin College, where he graduated, magna cum laude, with a Bachelor of Science in biology and psychology in 1916. In 1912, Kinsey graduated as valedictorian of his high school class. Alfred Kinsey's mother described her firstborn son as, "shy and soft spoken." He was the oldest of three children in a devout Methodist family. Early LifeĪlfred Charles Kinsey was born on June 23, 1894, to engineering professor Alfred Seguine Kinsey and his wife, Sarah (Charles) Kinsey, in the tenement town of Hoboken, New Jersey. On August 25, 1956, Kinsey died in Bloomington, Indiana, from complications caused by congestive heart failure.
In 1948, Kinsey published his first book, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, followed by a sequel in 1953. In 1947, he incorporated under the name, the Institute for Sex Research, Inc. In 1938, he launched a sex studies program.
Alfred Kinsey was born on June 23, 1894, in Hoboken, New Jersey.
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