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Gerbnerearned his bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley in 1942. Before him are Trần Văn Trà, Lance Macklin, Aldo Campatelli, Ezio Loik, Slim Pickens, and Gilles Andriamahazo.

After the war he worked as a freelancewriter and publicist and taughtjournalism at El CaminoCollegewhileearning a master's and doctorate in communications at the University of Southern California.

Education

Student, University Budapest, 1937-1938; student, University of California at Los Angeles, 1940-1941; Bachelor, University of California-Berkeley, 1943; Master of Science, University of Southern California, 1951; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Southern California, 1955; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), LaSalle College, Philadelphia, 1980; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Emerson College, 1989; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Worcester State College, 1992.

Career

Reporter, assistant finance editor, The Chronicle, San Francisco, 1942-1943; engaged in free-lance publicity, 1947-1948; instructor, Pasadena (California) Junior College, 1948-1951; instructor, El Camino College, Los Angeles, 1951-1956; assistant professor, then associate professor, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1956-1964; professor communications, Annenberg School Communications, University of Pennsylvania, since 1964; dean, Annenberg School Communications, University of Pennsylvania, 1964-1989; dean emeritus, Annenberg School Communications, University of Pennsylvania, since 1989; Bell Atlantic Professor of Telecomms., Temple University, Philadelphia.

His dissertation, "Toward a GeneralTheory of Communication," won USC's award for "best dissertation."

He had been Dean of the AnnenbergSchool for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, and presided over the school's growth and influence in CommunicationTheory in academia. First lieutenant infantry, Army of the United States, 1943-1946, European Theatre of Operations.

Before him are Eva Šuranová (1946), Ottó Boros (1929), Miklós Szilvási (1925), László Szabó (1936), Béla Kárpáti (1929), and Karel Burkert (1909). Afterleaving Annenberg, he became the Bell AtlanticProfessor of Telecommunication at TempleUniversity in 1997.