PSYCHOLOGIST

Benjamin Spock

1903 - 1998

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Benjamin McLane Spock (May 2, 1903 – March 15, 1998), widely known as Dr. Spock, was an American pediatrician and left-wing political activist. His book Baby and Child Care (1946) is one of the best-selling books of the 20th century, selling 500,000 copies in the six months after its initial publication and 50 million by the time of Spock's death in 1998. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Benjamin Spock has received more than 1,564,283 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Benjamin Spock is the 151st most popular psychologist (down from 98th in 2019), the 3,251st most popular biography from United States (down from 1,728th in 2019) and the 50th most popular American Psychologist.

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  • 54.27

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 42

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.64

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.07

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Benjamin Spock ranks 151 out of 235. Before him are Harry Harlow, Ernest Jones, Walter Mischel, Rensis Likert, Georgi Lozanov, and Fritz Heider. After him are David Ausubel, Jonathan Haidt, Franz Alexander, Wilfred Bion, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, and Julian Rotter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Benjamin Spock ranks 138. Before him are Abba P. Lerner, Ferenc Nagy, Cyril Jackson, Bertrand de Jouvenel, Karl Fritzsch, and Rensis Likert. After him are John Wyndham, Guillermo Subiabre, Lina Radke, Dolores Costello, Matvey Blanter, and Takiji Kobayashi. Among people deceased in 1998, Benjamin Spock ranks 107. Before him are Nino Ferrer, Juan José Nogués, Yuri Artyukhin, Richard Hamming, Sani Abacha, and Barry Goldwater. After him are Mary Cartwright, Joan Hickson, Birger Ruud, Hide, Clara Rockmore, and Anatoly Rybakov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Benjamin Spock ranks 3,251 out of 20,380. Before him are Nancy Roman (1925), Gall (1840), Charles Grodin (1935), Clarence Brown (1890), L. Sprague de Camp (1907), and Rebbie Jackson (1950). After him are Nathan Homer Knorr (1905), David Ausubel (1918), Dan Hedaya (1940), Emmylou Harris (1947), Warner Baxter (1889), and Alan Guth (1947).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United States

Among psychologists born in United States, Benjamin Spock ranks 50. Before him are George Kelly (1905), J. P. Guilford (1897), Brian Weiss (1944), Elizabeth Loftus (1944), Harry Harlow (1905), and Rensis Likert (1903). After him are David Ausubel (1918), Jonathan Haidt (1963), Julian Rotter (1916), James J. Gibson (1904), Arthur Janov (1924), and Arnold Gesell (1880).

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