Alfred Kinsey

While there Kinsey became interested in biology botany and zoology. The data publiAlfred Kinseyd in Sexual Behavior in the Human Male and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953) remains well-regarded in the scientific and psychiatric communities. Kinsey was the eldest of three children.

Alfred Charles Kinsey (June 23 1894 – August 25 1956) was an American biologist professor of entomology and zoology and sexologist who in 1947 founded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University now known as the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex Gender and Reproduction. He is best known for writing "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" (1948) and "Sexual Behavior in the Human Female" (1953) also known as the Kinsey Reports as well as the Kinsey scale.