1857 - 1911
Alfred Binet (French: [binɛ]; 8 July 1857 – 18 October 1911), born Alfredo Binetti, was a French psychologist who invented the first practical IQ test, the Binet–Simon test. In 1904, the French Ministry of Education asked psychologist Alfred Binet to devise a method that would determine which students did not learn effectively from regular classroom instruction so they could be given remedial work. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alfred Binet has received more than 861,227 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia. Alfred Binet is the 26th most popular psychologist (up from 29th in 2019), the 354th most popular biography from France (up from 402nd 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, Alfred Binet ranks 26 out of 183. Before him are Edward Thorndike, Melanie Klein, Anna Freud, Daniel Kahneman, Wilhelm Reich, and Irvin D. Yalom. After him are Lawrence Kohlberg, Hermann Ebbinghaus, Gustav Fechner, Karen Horney, Jerome Bruner, and Paul Ekman.
1874 - 1949
HPI: 71.41
Rank: 20
1882 - 1960
HPI: 70.95
Rank: 21
1895 - 1982
HPI: 70.72
Rank: 22
1934 - Present
HPI: 70.55
Rank: 23
1897 - 1957
HPI: 70.37
Rank: 24
1931 - Present
HPI: 69.83
Rank: 25
1857 - 1911
HPI: 69.63
Rank: 26
1927 - 1987
HPI: 69.30
Rank: 27
1850 - 1909
HPI: 69.05
Rank: 28
1801 - 1887
HPI: 68.74
Rank: 29
1885 - 1952
HPI: 68.66
Rank: 30
1915 - 2016
HPI: 68.13
Rank: 31
1934 - Present
HPI: 68.08
Rank: 32
Among people born in 1857, Alfred Binet ranks 14. Before him are Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, Henrik Pontoppidan, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, William Howard Taft, and Alfonso XII of Spain. After him are Ruggero Leoncavallo, Eugen Bleuler, Alexander of Battenberg, Theo van Gogh, Thorstein Veblen, and Ronald Ross. 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 Valentin Serov.
1857 - 1919
HPI: 73.52
Rank: 8
1857 - 1944
HPI: 72.67
Rank: 9
1857 - 1943
HPI: 70.82
Rank: 10
1857 - 1935
HPI: 70.34
Rank: 11
1857 - 1930
HPI: 70.30
Rank: 12
1857 - 1885
HPI: 69.74
Rank: 13
1857 - 1911
HPI: 69.63
Rank: 14
1857 - 1919
HPI: 69.00
Rank: 15
1857 - 1939
HPI: 66.84
Rank: 16
1857 - 1893
HPI: 66.49
Rank: 17
1857 - 1891
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 18
1857 - 1929
HPI: 65.89
Rank: 19
1857 - 1932
HPI: 65.63
Rank: 20
1860 - 1911
HPI: 81.36
Rank: 1
1852 - 1911
HPI: 73.64
Rank: 2
1833 - 1911
HPI: 71.70
Rank: 3
1822 - 1911
HPI: 69.85
Rank: 4
1857 - 1911
HPI: 69.63
Rank: 5
1847 - 1911
HPI: 67.70
Rank: 6
1862 - 1911
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 7
1842 - 1911
HPI: 65.59
Rank: 8
1875 - 1911
HPI: 65.23
Rank: 9
1851 - 1911
HPI: 64.73
Rank: 10
1862 - 1911
HPI: 62.49
Rank: 11
1865 - 1911
HPI: 61.45
Rank: 12
Among people born in France, Alfred Binet ranks 354 out of 6,011. Before him are Marguerite de Navarre (1492), Roger Martin du Gard (1881), Paul Ricœur (1913), James I of Aragon (1208), Jean Buridan (1295), and Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709). After him are Constantine II (316), Jeanne Moreau (1928), Louis IV of France (920), Baldwin I of Jerusalem (1058), Pierre Gassendi (1592), and Pope Innocent V (1225).
1492 - 1549
HPI: 69.75
Rank: 348
1881 - 1958
HPI: 69.73
Rank: 349
1913 - 2005
HPI: 69.69
Rank: 350
1208 - 1276
HPI: 69.65
Rank: 351
1295 - 1361
HPI: 69.65
Rank: 352
1709 - 1751
HPI: 69.64
Rank: 353
1857 - 1911
HPI: 69.63
Rank: 354
316 - 340
HPI: 69.63
Rank: 355
1928 - 2017
HPI: 69.62
Rank: 356
920 - 954
HPI: 69.58
Rank: 357
1058 - 1118
HPI: 69.56
Rank: 358
1592 - 1655
HPI: 69.55
Rank: 359
1225 - 1276
HPI: 69.55
Rank: 360
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), Jean Laplanche (1924), and Boris Cyrulnik (1937).
1901 - 1981
HPI: 76.13
Rank: 1
1841 - 1931
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 2
1857 - 1911
HPI: 69.63
Rank: 3
1882 - 1962
HPI: 65.43
Rank: 4
1859 - 1947
HPI: 62.53
Rank: 5
1839 - 1916
HPI: 58.31
Rank: 6
1857 - 1926
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 7
1879 - 1962
HPI: 56.64
Rank: 8
1908 - 1988
HPI: 54.42
Rank: 9
1924 - 2012
HPI: 52.27
Rank: 10
1937 - Present
HPI: 50.89
Rank: 11