Frank L. Schmidt (April 29, 1944 – August 21, 2021)[1] was an American psychology professor at the University of Iowa known for his work in personnel selection and employment testing.
Schmidt was a researcher in the area of industrial and organizational psychology with the most number of publications in the two major journals in the 1980s.
[2] He was also winner of the first Dunnette Prize, the most prestigious lifetime achievement award given by the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology "to honor living individuals whose work has significantly expanded knowledge of the causal significance of individual differences through advanced research, development, and/or application".
Schmidt was the Gary C. Fethke Chair in Leadership emeritus, Department of Management and Organizations in the Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa, where he has taught since 1985.
In 1994 he was one of 52 signatories on "Mainstream Science on Intelligence," an editorial written by Linda Gottfredson and published in the Wall Street Journal.