PSYCHOLOGIST

Benjamin Libet

1916 - 2007

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Benjamin Libet (; April 12, 1916 – July 23, 2007) was an American neuroscientist who was a pioneer in the field of human consciousness. Libet was a researcher in the physiology department of the University of California, San Francisco. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Benjamin Libet has received more than 488,430 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Benjamin Libet is the 169th most popular psychologist (down from 143rd in 2019), the 3,881st most popular biography from United States (down from 2,948th in 2019) and the 58th most popular American Psychologist.

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.49

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.96

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Benjamin Libet ranks 169 out of 235. Before him are Endel Tulving, Charlotte Bühler, Edgar Rubin, Nise da Silveira, Stanley Schachter, and Giacomo Rizzolatti. After him are Emma Eckstein, Edgar Schein, Dimitri Uznadze, James Hillman, Brenda Milner, and Raymond Moody.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Benjamin Libet ranks 132. Before him are Lars Korvald, Budd Boetticher, Morris West, Halil İnalcık, Ingrid Vang Nyman, and Gino Bianco. After him are Maurice Bavaud, Arno Peters, Dorothy McGuire, Iosif Shklovsky, Jackie Gleason, and Movita Castaneda. Among people deceased in 2007, Benjamin Libet ranks 165. Before him are Naziha al-Dulaimi, Antonio Aguilar, Darlene Conley, Michael Jackson, Awad Hamed al-Bandar, and Jim Gray. After him are Stuart Rosenberg, Parry O'Brien, Sandro Salvadore, Claude Pompidou, Robert Anton Wilson, and Giuseppe Baldo.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Benjamin Libet ranks 3,881 out of 20,380. Before him are Sheryl Crow (1962), Winnaretta Singer (1865), Doug Savant (1964), James Quinn (1906), Emily Warren Roebling (1843), and Lois Lowry (1937). After him are Ron Rivest (1947), Olivia Rodrigo (2003), Mimsy Farmer (1945), Greg Kinnear (1963), Ira Sprague Bowen (1898), and William Stewart Halsted (1852).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United States

Among psychologists born in United States, Benjamin Libet ranks 58. Before him are Jonathan Haidt (1963), Julian Rotter (1916), James J. Gibson (1904), Arthur Janov (1924), Arnold Gesell (1880), and Stanley Schachter (1922). After him are James Hillman (1926), Raymond Moody (1944), Michael Gazzaniga (1939), Louis Leon Thurstone (1887), Lewis Terman (1877), and Gustave Gilbert (1911).

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