Ruth Noller, Ed.D (1922 - 2008) has been a pioneer throughout her entire professional life and is known for her work as a scholar in creative studies. Dr. Noller was a Navy veteran of World War II, mathematician, and Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at State University of New York. Stationed as a Navy WAVES at Harvard University as a Mathematics-Engineering Officer, she began programming work on the IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (also known as the Mark I) computer a month after it went into operation and a week after her colleague Grace Hopper began working with the machine.
Dr. Noller turned next to training young minds first as a mathematics professor (20 years) at the State University of New York at Buffalo and then as a pioneering founder of the study of
creativity. She taught hundreds of undergraduates to helping discover that creative thinking can be deliberately encouraged. She applied her background as a former professor of mathematics to develop a formula describing the factors that produce creative behavior. In her formula, represented as C = ƒa(KIE), she indicated that creativity is generated by the interaction between Knowledge (K), Imagination (I), and Evaluation (E). Furthermore, she suggested that a crucial catalyst in this formula is the individual's attitude (A).
She also was a pioneer with the Creative Education Foundation and the Creative Problem Solving Institute (CPSI), providing decades of leadership to those organization beginning in 1964. The growth of creativity studies (and its applications today in both business and education) are the direct result of the seminal work of Dr. Noller and her colleague Sidney Parnes. Through their seminal work in the Creative Studies Research Project, these scholars proved the effectiveness of training in creativity and creative problem solving and the deliberate applications of this train in solving real-world problems.
Her articles and publications include "Mentoring: A Voiced Scarf, Scratching the Surface of Creative Problem Solving" and with Sidney Parnes, "The Guide to Creative Action and Creative Action Book." More information about her publications can be found here.
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