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PSYCHOLOGIST

Gustav Fechner

1801 - 1887

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Gustav Theodor Fechner (; German: [ˈfɛçnɐ]; 19 April 1801 – 18 November 1887) was a German physicist, philosopher, and experimental psychologist. A pioneer in experimental psychology and founder of psychophysics (techniques for measuring the mind), he inspired many 20th-century scientists and philosophers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gustav Fechner has received more than 382,365 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Gustav Fechner is the 29th most popular psychologist (down from 26th in 2019), the 70th most popular biography from Poland (down from 51st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Polish Psychologist.

Gustav Fechner was a German physiologist and psychologist who is most famous for his psychophysical law, which states that the magnitude of a sensation is proportional to the logarithm of the stimulus intensity.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Gustav Fechner ranks 29 out of 183Before him are Daniel Kahneman, Wilhelm Reich, Irvin D. Yalom, Alfred Binet, Lawrence Kohlberg, and Hermann Ebbinghaus. After him are Karen Horney, Jerome Bruner, Paul Ekman, Howard Gardner, Milton H. Erickson, and Gordon Allport.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1801, Gustav Fechner ranks 3Before him are Vincenzo Bellini and Brigham Young. After him are Josip Jelačić, Frédéric Bastiat, John of Saxony, Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria, Amalie Auguste of Bavaria, John Henry Newman, Johannes Peter Müller, Joseph Plateau, and Mikhail Ostrogradsky. Among people deceased in 1887, Gustav Fechner ranks 3Before him are Gustav Kirchhoff and Alexander Borodin. After him are Jenny Lind, Eugène Edine Pottier, Aleksandr Ulyanov, Ivan Kramskoi, Multatuli, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Alfred Krupp, Juan, Count of Montizón, and Jules Laforgue.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Gustav Fechner ranks 70 out of 1,454Before him are Faustina Kowalska (1905), Gerhart Hauptmann (1862), Sigismund I the Old (1467), Werner von Blomberg (1878), Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906), and Emanuel Lasker (1868). After him are Andrzej Sapkowski (1948), Casimir IV Jagiellon (1427), Maria Feodorovna (1759), Norbert Elias (1897), Walther Nernst (1864), and John II Casimir Vasa (1609).

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Poland

Among psychologists born in Poland, Gustav Fechner ranks 2Before him are Kurt Lewin (1890). After him are Solomon Asch (1907), Alice Miller (1923), Hugo Münsterberg (1863), Kurt Goldstein (1878), Helene Deutsch (1884), and Abraham Brill (1874).