Melvin Seeman (February 5, 1918[2] – January 31, 2020) was an American social psychologist and emeritus professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
[5] Seeman was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and received his Ph.D. from Ohio State University in 1947.
He subsequently taught at Ohio State for several years, and eventually became an associate professor there.
He also served as the director of Ohio State's Operations Research Group from 1956 to 1958.
[7] In 1996, Seeman received the Cooley-Mead Award from the American Sociological Association's Section on Social Psychology.