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G. Stanley Hall

1846 - 1924

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Granville Stanley Hall (February 1, 1844 – April 24, 1924) was an American psychologist and educator who earned the first doctorate in psychology awarded in the United States of America at Harvard College in the nineteenth century. His interests focused on human life span development and evolutionary theory. Hall was the first president of the American Psychological Association and the first president of Clark University. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of G. Stanley Hall has received more than 639,886 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). G. Stanley Hall is the 82nd most popular psychologist (down from 70th in 2019), the 1,406th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,074th in 2019) and the 28th most popular American Psychologist.

G. Stanley Hall was a psychologist who studied the development of children. He is most famous for his work in the field of developmental psychology.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, G. Stanley Hall ranks 82 out of 235. Before him are William Stern, Ludwig Binswanger, Timothy Leary, Paul Watzlawick, Edward B. Titchener, and Jean Tatlock. After him are David Wechsler, Walter Bradford Cannon, Donald O. Hebb, Hugo Münsterberg, David McClelland, and Rollo May.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1846, G. Stanley Hall ranks 25. Before him are Anna Dostoevskaya, Vasily Dokuchaev, Émile Gallé, Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Léon Bloy, and Karl von Bülow. After him are Franz Mehring, Mariam Baouardy, Tokugawa Iemochi, Alexander von Kluck, Edward Charles Pickering, and Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay. Among people deceased in 1924, G. Stanley Hall ranks 27. Before him are Léon Bakst, Princess Louise of Belgium, Karl Denke, Bogd Khan, Arne Garborg, and Paul Natorp. After him are Teófilo Braga, Lyubov Popova, Ziya Gökalp, Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, Fernand Cormon, and Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr..

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In United States

Among people born in United States, G. Stanley Hall ranks 1,406 out of 20,380. Before him are Solomon Northup (1808), Jack Dempsey (1895), Robert A. Dahl (1915), Sarah Knauss (1880), Peter Weller (1947), and Martha Nussbaum (1947). After him are Alan Bean (1932), Dan Simmons (1948), Adrien Brody (1973), Charles G. Dawes (1865), Ida Tarbell (1857), and David Schwimmer (1966).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United States

Among psychologists born in United States, G. Stanley Hall ranks 28. Before him are Philip Zimbardo (1933), Mary Ainsworth (1913), George Armitage Miller (1920), Edward C. Tolman (1886), Timothy Leary (1920), and Jean Tatlock (1914). After him are Walter Bradford Cannon (1871), David McClelland (1917), Rollo May (1909), James McKeen Cattell (1860), Frederick Herzberg (1923), and Benjamin Bloom (1913).

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