PSYCHOLOGIST

Alfred Binet

1857 - 1911

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Alfred Binet (French: [binɛ]; 8 July 1857 – 18 October 1911), born Alfredo Binetti, was a French psychologist who together with Théodore Simon invented the first practical intelligence test, the Binet–Simon test. In 1904, Binet took part in a commission set up by the French Ministry of Education to decide whether school children with learning difficulties should be sent to a special boarding school attached to a lunatic asylum, as advocated by the French psychiatrist and politician Désiré-Magloire Bourneville, or whether they should be educated in classes attached to regular schools as advocated by the Société libre pour l'étude psychologique de l'enfant (SLEPE) of which Binet was a member. There was also debate over who should decide whether a child was capable enough for regular education. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alfred Binet has received more than 899,028 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Alfred Binet is the 28th most popular psychologist (down from 26th in 2019), the 429th most popular biography from France (down from 354th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular French Psychologist.

Alfred Binet was a French psychologist who is most famous for developing the first intelligence test.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Alfred Binet ranks 28 out of 235. Before him are Edward Thorndike, B. F. Skinner, Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, Gustav Fechner, and Karen Horney. After him are Hermann Ebbinghaus, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Hermann Rorschach, Howard Gardner, Gordon Allport, and Paul Ekman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Alfred Binet ranks 15. Before him are Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Alfonso XII of Spain, Henrik Pontoppidan, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, William Howard Taft, and Ruggero Leoncavallo. After him are Theo van Gogh, Eugen Bleuler, Alexander of Battenberg, Paul Doumer, Axel Munthe, and Andrija Mohorovičić. Among people deceased in 1911, Alfred Binet ranks 5. Before him are Gustav Mahler, Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Wilhelm Dilthey, and Francis Galton. After him are Joseph Pulitzer, Pyotr Stolypin, Paul Lafargue, Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, Georg Jellinek, Emilio Salgari, and Maria Pia of Savoy.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alfred Binet ranks 429 out of 6,770. Before him are Marc Bloch (1886), Pauline Bonaparte (1780), Pierre Gassendi (1592), Giambologna (1529), Eugène François Vidocq (1775), and Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908). After him are Jean Dubuffet (1901), Odilon Redon (1840), André Le Nôtre (1613), Alphonse de Lamartine (1790), Jean Monnet (1888), and Henri Moissan (1852).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In France

Among psychologists born in France, Alfred Binet ranks 3. Before him are Jacques Lacan (1901), and Gustave Le Bon (1841). After him are Princess Marie Bonaparte (1882), Pierre Janet (1859), Théodule-Armand Ribot (1839), Émile Coué (1857), Henri Wallon (1879), Françoise Dolto (1908), Boris Cyrulnik (1937), Jean Laplanche (1924), and Jacques-Alain Miller (1944).

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