PSYCHOLOGIST

Frans de Waal

1948 - 2024

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Franciscus Bernardus Maria de Waal (29 October 1948 – 14 March 2024) was a Dutch-American primatologist and ethologist. He was the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Primate Behavior in the Department of Psychology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center at Emory, and author of numerous books including Chimpanzee Politics (1982) and Our Inner Ape (2005). His research centered on primate social behavior, including conflict resolution, cooperation, inequity aversion, and food-sharing. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frans de Waal has received more than 654,743 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Frans de Waal is the 128th most popular psychologist (up from 132nd in 2019), the 317th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 329th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Dutch Psychologist.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Frans de Waal ranks 128 out of 235. Before him are Ulric Neisser, Robert Plutchik, Otto F. Kernberg, Urie Bronfenbrenner, Serge Moscovici, and Ovide Decroly. After him are Johannes Heinrich Schultz, Amos Tversky, George Kelly, Steven Pinker, Helene Deutsch, and Kurt Goldstein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Frans de Waal ranks 157. Before him are Mitsuko Uchida, Miklós Németh, Theo Jansen, Michael Kamen, Jan Hammer, and Jayalalithaa. After him are Bill Ward, Raymond Leo Burke, Marcia Barrett, Roger Williamson, Tony Gatlif, and Valeri Kharlamov. Among people deceased in 2024, Frans de Waal ranks 116. Before him are Philippe de Gaulle, Veljko Bulajić, Renato Martino, Ratan Tata, Bernd Hölzenbein, and Leif Segerstam. After him are Bill Viola, Vaino Väljas, Philippe Leroy, Choe Thae-bok, James Herbert Brennan, and Jürgen Moltmann.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Frans de Waal ranks 317 out of 1,646. Before him are Geert Adriaans Boomgaard (1788), Ludger (742), Marinus van Reymerswaele (1490), Peter van de Kamp (1901), Willy van der Kuijlen (1946), and Jan Huyghen van Linschoten (1563). After him are Jacobus Oud (1890), Adriaen van de Velde (1636), Aert de Gelder (1645), Frans Timmermans (1961), Aad de Mos (1947), and Jan Dirksz Both (1618).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Netherlands

Among psychologists born in Netherlands, Frans de Waal ranks 2. Before him are Geert Hofstede (1928). After him are Henri Nouwen (1932), C. George Boeree (1952), and Frederik van Eeden (1860).

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