Howard Gardner

  • Howard Gardner is born

  • At the age of 13 he became a skilled pianist

  • From 1958-1969 he teaches piano

  • Gardner recieves his B.A. summa cum laude in social relations from Harvard College

  • Gardner earns his Ph.D in psychology from Harvard University

  • Gardner is the recipient of a MacArthur Prize Fellowship

  • Gardner develops and introduces his theory of mulitple intelligences

  • He begins teaching at Harvard Graduate School of Education

  • He became the fist American to recieve the University of Louisville Grawemeyer Awrard in Education

  • He recieves a fellowship from the Johm S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

  • He is named Honorary Professor at East China Normal University in Shanghai

  • He is selected by Foreign Policy and Prospect magazines as one of the top 100 most influential public intellectuals in the world in the years 2005-2008

  • He won the Prince of Austrias Award in Social Sciences