路特(1933-)，英国发展变态心理学家，主要从事对自然和教养在个体发展过程中的相互作用的研究，并运用自然实验来检验基因和环境在心理发展中所起的作用。1987年当选为英国皇家协会成员，1995年获美国心理学会颁发的杰出科学贡献奖。
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Michael Rutter was born in the Lebanon to English parents in 1933,
coming to England in 1936, but spending the war years of 1940-1944 in
the United States. He went to Birmingham University Medical School,
graduating in 1955. After postgraduate posts in neurology, pediatrics
and cardiology, he undertook training in psychiatry at the Maudsley
Hospital in London, qualifying with distinction in 1961 before going to
spend a year on a research fellowship at Albert Einstein College of
Medicine in New York. On his return he joined the Medical Research
Council (MRC) Social Psychiatry Unit, remaining until appointed as
Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry in London in 1966,
subsequently reader and then, in 1973, Professor of Child Psychiatry and
Head of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
From 1984 to 1998 he was Honorary Director of the MRC Child Psychiatry
Research Unit and from 1994 to 1998 he was also Honorary Director of the
Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, both of
which he set up at the Institute of Psychiatry. Since 1998 he has held
the position of Professor of Developmental Psychopathology. His research
has spanned an unusually wide range, including epidemiology, long-term
longitudinal studies, investigations of school effectiveness, tests of
psychosocial risk mediation and studies of interviewing techniques, as
well as quantitative and molecular genetics. His clinical research foci
have included autism, neuropsychiatric disorders, depression, antisocial
behavior, reading difficulties, deprivation syndromes and hyperkinetic
disorder. He has published some 38 books and over 400 scientific papers
and chapters.
He was elected to the Royal Society in 1987, was knighted in 1992, and
was a founder member of both the Academia Europaea and the Academy of
Medical Sciences. He is a foreign member of the US Institute of
Medicine, and is currently president of the Society for Research into
Child Development. He won the Helmut Horten Foundation prize in 1997,
the Castilla del Pino prize in 1995, and the Ruane prize in 2000. He has
honorary degrees from the Universities of Leiden, Louvain, Birmingham,
Edinburgh, Chicago, Minnesota, Ghent, Jyvaskyla, Warwick and East
Anglia.
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