PSYCHOLOGIST

Alfred Kinsey

1894 - 1956

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Alfred Charles Kinsey (; June 23, 1894 – August 25, 1956) was an American sexologist, biologist, and professor of entomology and zoology who, in 1947, founded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University, now known as the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. He is best known for writing Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953), also known as the Kinsey Reports, as well as for the Kinsey scale. Kinsey's research on human sexuality, foundational to the field of sexology, provoked controversy in the 1940s and 1950s, and has continued to provoke controversy decades after his death. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alfred Kinsey has received more than 2,901,984 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Alfred Kinsey is the 44th most popular psychologist (down from 43rd in 2019), the 634th most popular biography from United States (down from 567th in 2019) and the 15th most popular American Psychologist.

Alfred Kinsey is most famous for his research on human sexuality. He was a biologist and professor of entomology and zoology at Indiana University. Kinsey's research focused on human sexuality, specifically the frequency of sexual behavior among both males and females, including homosexual activity, and sexual responses, among others.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Alfred Kinsey ranks 44 out of 235. Before him are Hans Eysenck, Donald Winnicott, John Bowlby, Milton H. Erickson, Wolfgang Köhler, and Elton Mayo. After him are Max Wertheimer, Sándor Ferenczi, Raymond Cattell, Princess Marie Bonaparte, Sabina Spielrein, and Bruno Bettelheim.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Alfred Kinsey ranks 22. Before him are Joseph Roth, Harold Macmillan, Gala Dalí, Isaac Babel, Dietrich von Choltitz, and Kiichiro Toyoda. After him are Satyendra Nath Bose, Heinrich Lübke, Alexander Oparin, Pyotr Kapitsa, Otto Grotewohl, and Hermann Oberth. Among people deceased in 1956, Alfred Kinsey ranks 16. Before him are Frederick Soddy, Juho Kusti Paasikivi, Lucien Febvre, Robert Walser, A. A. Milne, and Risto Ryti. After him are Konstantin Päts, Alexander Rodchenko, Bela Lugosi, Reinhold Glière, H. L. Mencken, and Josef Hoffmann.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alfred Kinsey ranks 634 out of 20,380. Before him are Harold Ramis (1944), Whoopi Goldberg (1955), Louisa May Alcott (1832), Paul Krugman (1953), Jamie Lee Curtis (1958), and Carl Lewis (1961). After him are George Cukor (1899), Sidney Lumet (1924), Charles Taze Russell (1852), Ariana Grande (1993), Richard Kiel (1939), and Richard Chamberlain (1934).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United States

Among psychologists born in United States, Alfred Kinsey ranks 15. Before him are Howard Gardner (1943), Gordon Allport (1897), Paul Ekman (1934), Jerome Bruner (1915), Lawrence Kohlberg (1927), and Milton H. Erickson (1901). After him are Albert Ellis (1913), Martin Seligman (1942), Aaron T. Beck (1921), Stanley Milgram (1933), Roger Wolcott Sperry (1913), and Leon Festinger (1919).

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