PSYCHOLOGIST

Alexander Luria

1902 - 1977

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Alexander Romanovich Luria (Russian: Алекса́ндр Рома́нович Лу́рия, IPA: [ˈlurʲɪjə]; 16 July 1902 – 14 August 1977) was a Soviet neuropsychologist, often credited as a father of modern neuropsychology. He developed an extensive and original battery of neuropsychological tests during his clinical work with brain-injured victims of World War II, which are still used in various forms. He made an in-depth analysis of the functioning of various brain regions and integrative processes of the brain in general. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Luria has received more than 425,498 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Luria is the 55th most popular psychologist (down from 54th in 2019), the 257th most popular biography from Russia (down from 237th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Russian Psychologist.

Luria is most famous for his work in neuropsychology. He is considered one of the founders of cognitive psychology. He was a Russian-born psychologist who studied the effects of brain damage on the human mind.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Alexander Luria ranks 55 out of 235. Before him are Sabina Spielrein, Bruno Bettelheim, Albert Ellis, Kurt Koffka, Martin Seligman, and Aaron T. Beck. After him are Fritz Perls, Stanley Milgram, Pierre Janet, Solomon Asch, Roger Wolcott Sperry, and Geert Hofstede.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Alexander Luria ranks 36. Before him are André Michel Lwoff, Alva Myrdal, Juscelino Kubitschek, Marcel Breuer, Harold Lasswell, and Émile Benveniste. After him are Theodore Schultz, Reinhard Gehlen, Günther Anders, Prince George, Duke of Kent, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, and Alexandre Kojève. Among people deceased in 1977, Alexander Luria ranks 26. Before him are Princess Charlotte, Duchess of Valentinois, Clarice Lispector, Andreas Baader, Archibald Hill, Howard Hawks, and Bing Crosby. After him are Henri-Georges Clouzot, Edgar Adrian, Peter Finch, Gudrun Ensslin, Groucho Marx, and Sergey Ilyushin.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Luria ranks 257 out of 3,761. Before him are Johann Georg Hamann (1730), Pharnaces II of Pontus (-95), Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (1863), Dmitry Ustinov (1908), Boris Shaposhnikov (1882), and Fyodor Tolbukhin (1894). After him are Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia (1847), Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia (1891), Yevdokiya Lopukhina (1669), Alexander Blok (1880), Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia (1553), and Nikolai Yudenich (1862).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Russia

Among psychologists born in Russia, Alexander Luria ranks 2. Before him are Sabina Spielrein (1885). After him are Vladimir Bekhterev (1857), Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay (1846), Aleksei N. Leontiev (1903), Urie Bronfenbrenner (1917), Endel Tulving (1927), Victor Skumin (1948), and Natalia Bekhtereva (1924).

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