Arnold Zwicky

Arnold Zwicky
Born (1940-09-06) September 6, 1940
Allentown, Pennsylvania
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma mater
  • Princetown University,
  • MIT
SpouseAnn Daingerfield Zwicky
Scientific career
FieldsLinguistics
Institutions
  • Stanford University,
  • Ohio State University
Thesis Topics in Sanskrit Phonology  (1965)
Doctoral advisorMorris Halle
Websitehttps://web.stanford.edu/~zwicky/

Arnold Melchior Zwicky (born September 6, 1940) is an adjunct professor of linguistics at Stanford University and Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the Ohio State University. The Linguistic Society of America’s Arnold Zwicky Award, given for the first time in 2021, is intended to recognize the contributions of LGBTQ+ scholars in linguistics and is named for Zwicky, the first LGBTQ+ President of the LSA.