PSYCHOLOGIST

George Armitage Miller

1920 - 2012

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George Armitage Miller (February 3, 1920 – July 22, 2012) was an American psychologist who was one of the founders of cognitive psychology, and more broadly, of cognitive science. He also contributed to the birth of psycholinguistics. Miller wrote several books and directed the development of WordNet, an online word-linkage database usable by computer programs. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Armitage Miller has received more than 416,387 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). George Armitage Miller is the 73rd most popular psychologist (up from 90th in 2019), the 1,179th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,366th in 2019) and the 24th most popular American Psychologist.

George Armitage Miller is most famous for his research on memory and cognition. Miller's research on the "magical number seven" is what he is most well-known for. The "magical number seven" is the idea that people can only hold about seven pieces of information in their short-term memory at one time.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 2.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, George Armitage Miller ranks 73 out of 235. Before him are Margaret Mahler, Ernst Kretschmer, Otto Rank, Mary Ainsworth, Antonio Damasio, and Ernst Heinrich Weber. After him are Karl Bühler, Edward C. Tolman, William Stern, Ludwig Binswanger, Timothy Leary, and Paul Watzlawick.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, George Armitage Miller ranks 53. Before him are Baruj Benacerraf, Chiara Lubich, E. Donnall Thomas, Lawrence Klein, Shelley Winters, and Walter Nowotny. After him are P. D. James, Dave Brubeck, Ovadia Yosef, Maureen O'Hara, Jack Elam, and Ștefan Kovács. Among people deceased in 2012, George Armitage Miller ranks 49. Before him are Carl Woese, Erland Josephson, Andrew Huxley, Stephen Covey, Rauf Denktaş, and F. Sherwood Rowland. After him are Hebe Camargo, William Standish Knowles, Dave Brubeck, Sergio Oliva, Eduard Khil, and Chadli Bendjedid.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George Armitage Miller ranks 1,179 out of 20,380. Before him are Clyde Drexler (1962), Alonzo Church (1903), William Gibson (1948), Gene Sharp (1928), Yonatan Netanyahu (1946), and Anjelica Huston (1951). After him are Lisa Kudrow (1963), Mary Higgins Clark (1927), Leo Fender (1909), Joe Jackson (1928), William Fichtner (1956), and Don Siegel (1912).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United States

Among psychologists born in United States, George Armitage Miller ranks 24. Before him are Aaron T. Beck (1921), Stanley Milgram (1933), Roger Wolcott Sperry (1913), Leon Festinger (1919), Philip Zimbardo (1933), and Mary Ainsworth (1913). After him are Edward C. Tolman (1886), Timothy Leary (1920), Jean Tatlock (1914), G. Stanley Hall (1846), Walter Bradford Cannon (1871), and David McClelland (1917).

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