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Frank Ambrose Beach, Jr. (April 13, 1911 – June 15, 1988) was an American ethologist, best known as co-author of the 1951 book ''Patterns of Sexual Behavior.'' ==Biography== Frank Ambrose Beach, Jr. was born in Emporia, Kansas, the first of three children to Frank Ambrose Beach and Bertha Robinson Beach.〔Dewsbury, Donald A. (2000) "Frank A. Beach, Master Teacher," ''Portraits of Pioneers in Psychology, Volume 4,'' p269-281〕 Although he respected his father, a distinguished Professor of Music at Kansas State Teachers College (now Emporia State University), Frank Beach Jr. often rebelled against him.〔 Beach began an English major at Emporia, but was sent to Antioch College for his sophomore year.〔 Beach graduated in 1932, and, unable to find a job, accepted a fellowship in clinical psychology at Emporia. Beach completed a thesis on color vision in rats.〔 He moved to the University of Chicago, where he met behaviorist Karl Lashley,〔〔Glickman, Stephen E. & Zucker, Irving (1994), ''Proceedings, American Philosophical Society,'' vol. 138, No. 1, p158-164〕 who had perhaps the strongest influence on Beach's professional life.〔 Financial difficulties forced Beach to leave Chicago, and took a high school teaching position in Yates Center, Kansas,〔 where he married his first wife. The union was short-lived.〔 Beach returned to the University of Chicago, and completed, under the supervision of Harvey Carr, a PhD thesis on the role the neocortex on innate maternal behavior in rats.〔 During this period, Beach married his second wife, Anna Beth Odenweller, with whom he had two children, Frank and Susan.〔〔 In 1936, Beach accepted a one-year position at Karl Lashley's Cambridge laboratory, where he continued his studies of animal sexual behavior.〔 The following year, he was employed by the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.〔 Beach was influential in advancing the study of neural and endocrinal influences on animal behavior. In 1946, Beach accepted an academic appointment at Yale University. There his research interest became focused on the reproductive behavior of dogs which he continued for the rest of his life. A sabbatical at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford began in 1957-58. In 1958, Beach accepted a position as Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. The research program on dogs that was initiated at Yale was expanded at Berkeley. Beach helped found the Field Station for Behavioral Research near the Berkeley campus. Beach, along with anthropologist Clellan S. Ford, co-authored the book ''Patterns of Sexual Behavior'' (1951), considered a "classic" of its field.〔George P. Murdock (1974) "Clellan Stearns Ford, 1909-1972," ''American Anthropologist'', New Series, Vol. 76, No. 1 (Mar., 1974), pp. 83-85〕 He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1953.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterB.pdf )〕 He also authored an edited version, ''Human Sexuality in Four Perspectives,'' in 1977.〔 Beach's second wife, Anna, died in 1971, and he thereafter married Noel Gaustad.〔〔 In the days prior to his death, Beach continued his work from a hospital bed, reading scientific literature and giving advice about a paper on reproductive behavior to be presented at an Omaha conference on June 12, 1988.〔 He died on June 15, 1988.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frank A. Beach」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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