PSYCHOLOGIST

Edgar Schein

1928 - 2023

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Edgar Henry Schein (March 5, 1928 – January 26, 2023) was a Swiss-born American business theorist and psychologist who was professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He was a foundational researcher in the discipline of organizational behavior, and made notable contributions in the field of organizational development in many areas, including career development, group process consultation, and organizational culture. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edgar Schein has received more than 587,638 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Edgar Schein is the 171st most popular psychologist, the 312th most popular biography from Switzerland and the 7th most popular Swiss Psychologist.

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  • 16

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  • 5.31

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  • 1.95

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Edgar Schein ranks 171 out of 235. Before him are Edgar Rubin, Nise da Silveira, Stanley Schachter, Giacomo Rizzolatti, Benjamin Libet, and Emma Eckstein. After him are Dimitri Uznadze, James Hillman, Brenda Milner, Raymond Moody, Boris Cyrulnik, and Michael Gazzaniga.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Edgar Schein ranks 255. Before him are Alan Sillitoe, Nils Christie, Alexander Gomelsky, Annie Cordy, Anthony Franciosa, and Sohrab Sepehri. After him are Pal Benko, Azlan Shah of Perak, Charles Gray, William Klein, Pilar Lorengar, and Maynard Ferguson. Among people deceased in 2023, Edgar Schein ranks 269. Before him are Alexei Starobinsky, Robert Blake, Aracy Balabanian, Bernard Morel, Mariya Pisareva, and The Iron Sheik. After him are Jerónimo Saavedra, Heinrich Messner, Gennady Zhidko, Michel Deville, George Pell, and Francisco J. Ayala.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Edgar Schein ranks 312 out of 1,015. Before him are Johann Schneider-Ammann (1952), Raoul Pictet (1846), Michele Besso (1873), Doris Leuthard (1963), Rodolphe Lindt (1855), and Walther Ritz (1878). After him are Orgetorix (null), Cuno Amiet (1868), Princess Nora of Liechtenstein (1950), Niklaus Manuel Deutsch (1484), Pierre Tirard (1827), and Paul Wild (1925).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Switzerland

Among psychologists born in Switzerland, Edgar Schein ranks 7. Before him are Carl Jung (1875), Jean Piaget (1896), Hermann Rorschach (1884), Ludwig Binswanger (1881), Auguste Forel (1848), and Édouard Claparède (1873). After him are Otto Binswanger (1852), and Théodore Flournoy (1854).

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