What is Alfred de Grazia?
{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2021}} '''Alfred de Grazia''' (December 29, 1919 - July 12, 2014) was an [[Americans|American]] [[political scientist]] and author. He was born in [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]]. He developed techniques of computer-based social network analysis in the 1950s,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.grazian-archive.com/governing/Elite/Table%20of%20Contents.html |title=Discovering National Elites: Table of Contents |work=grazian-archive.com|access-date=July 16, 2014}}</ref> developed new ideas about personal digital archives in the 1970s,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.grazian-archive.com/projects/archvpt.html |title=THE PERSONAL ARCHIVE: ON RETRIEVING VALUABLE CULTURAL RESOURCES|work=grazian-archive.com |access-date=July 16, 2014}}</ref> and defended the [[catastrophism]] thesis of [[Immanuel Velikovsky]]. On December 31, 2013, Alfred was awarded the highest French distinction, being made a Chevalier of the [[Legion of Honor]] by decree of President [[François Hollande]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFTEXT000028416192 |title=Décret du 31 décembre 2013 portant nomination |work=legifrance.gouv.f |access-date=July 16, 2014}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Further reading== *''Quantavolution - Challenges to Conventional Science,'' Festschrift in honor of Alfred de Grazia's 90th birthday, compiled and edited by Ian Tresman, Knowledge Computing, UK (2010) ==Other websites== *[http://www.grazian-archive.com The Grazian Archive: archived works of Alfred de Grazia] *[http://www.americanstateofcanaan.com/home/index.html The American State of Canaan] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090827040641/http://www.americanstateofcanaan.com/home/index.html |date=August 27, 2009 }} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:de Grazia, Alfred}} [[Category:1919 births]] [[Category:2014 deaths]] [[Category:American historians]] [[Category:American political scientists]] [[Category:Scientists from Chicago]] [[Category:Writers from Chicago]] {{us-bio-stub}}