Samuel Jacob Beck (1896–1980[1]) was an American psychologist who worked on personality assessment and the Rorschach test.
[2] He graduated from Harvard in 1926 and then attended Columbia University, where received his M.A.
He received the Bruno Klopfer Award in 1965.
[2] He was the first person in America to write a research paper on the Rorschach test, with a publication in 1930, and was a foremost expert on the topic.
In 1947 he assisted Douglas Kelley in the interpretation of Rorschach test results from Nazi leaders taken by Kelley during the Nuremberg War Trials.