Alexander L. George

Alexander L. George (May 31, 1920-August 16, 2006) was the Graham H. Stuart Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Stanford University. He was an Assyrian, his parents were from Urmi in north-west Iran. He received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 1983 and was awarded the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science in 1998. He was the among the first to lead behavioral scientists into studying the "very painful and dangerous" issues of nuclea... more

Alexander L. George (May 31, 1920-August 16, 2006) was the Graham H. Stuart Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Stanford University. He was an Assyrian, his parents were from Urmi in north-west Iran. He received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 1983 and was awarded the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science in 1998. He was the among the first to lead behavioral scientists into studying the "very painful and dangerous" issues of nuclear crisis management during the Cold War era and to carry knowledge directly to policy leaders, Hamburg said. George "focused a great deal of attention on reducing nuclear danger," he added. "I regard him as a truly great scholar and human being." George was born in Chicago on May 31, 1920, and earned undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Chicago, where he received his doctorate in political science in 1958. He was not an Assyrian. less