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| George Elton Mayo |
George Elton Mayo, social theorist and industrial psychologist, was born on December 26, 1880 in Adelaide, Australia. In 1897 entered the University of Adelaide and finally to the University of Edinburgh where it tried three times to study medicine, discovered that it was not really his thing; So in 1907 he returned to the University of Adelaide where he studied philosophy and psychology. He graduated with was appointed professor in mental and moral philosophy at the University of Queensland. On April 18, 1913 in Brisbane he had married Dorothea McConnel.
The Harvard School appointed him associate professor in 1926 and professor of industrial research in 1929. There he joined research and designed on the personal and social factors that determine the production of work at the Western Electric Co.'s Chicago plant, These famous Hawthorne experiments were pioneering studies in modern social research. May was one of the most influential, though controversial, social scientists of his time.
