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PSYCHOLOGIST

Alexander Luria

1902 - 1977

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Alexander Romanovich Luria (Russian: Алекса́ндр Рома́нович Лу́рия; 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 395,837 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Alexander Luria is the 54th most popular psychologist (down from 52nd in 2019), the 238th most popular biography from Russia (down from 226th 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 54 out of 183Before him are Stanley Milgram, Geert Hofstede, Solomon Asch, Fritz Perls, Raymond Cattell, and Sabina Spielrein. After him are Wolfgang Köhler, Martin Seligman, Sándor Ferenczi, Leon Festinger, Roger Wolcott Sperry, and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Alexander Luria ranks 33Before him are Harold Lasswell, Marcel Breuer, Mikhail Suslov, Alva Myrdal, Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, and Reinhard Gehlen. After him are Theodore Schultz, Émile Benveniste, Juscelino Kubitschek, André Michel Lwoff, Mitsuo Fuchida, and Felix Wankel. Among people deceased in 1977, Alexander Luria ranks 24Before him are Ernst Bloch, Francis Gary Powers, Howard Hawks, Princess Charlotte, Duchess of Valentinois, Bing Crosby, and Clarice Lispector. After him are Groucho Marx, Andreas Baader, Edgar Adrian, Clementine Churchill, Lee Miller, and Ali Shariati.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Luria ranks 238 out of 3,262Before him are Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia (1847), Olga Constantinovna of Russia (1851), Ivan Goncharov (1812), Sabina Spielrein (1885), Boris Shaposhnikov (1882), and Oleg Antonov (1906). After him are Vasily Blyukher (1889), Gustav Bauer (1870), Boris Berezovsky (1946), Lyudmila Putina (1958), Pyotr Kapitsa (1894), and Vasily I of Moscow (1371).

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Russia

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