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PSYCHOLOGIST

Hans Eysenck

1916 - 1997

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Hans Jürgen Eysenck ( EYE-zenk; 4 March 1916 – 4 September 1997) was a German-born British psychologist who spent his professional career in Great Britain. He is best remembered for his work on intelligence and personality, although he worked on other issues in psychology. At the time of his death, Eysenck was the most frequently cited living psychologist in the peer-reviewed scientific journal literature.Eysenck's research purported to show that certain personality types had an elevated risk of cancer and heart disease. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hans Eysenck has received more than 853,670 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Hans Eysenck is the 36th most popular psychologist (down from 30th in 2019), the 396th most popular biography from Germany (down from 314th in 2019) and the 6th most popular German Psychologist.

Hans Eysenck was a psychologist who is most famous for his work on personality and intelligence.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Hans Eysenck ranks 36 out of 183Before him are Karen Horney, Jerome Bruner, Paul Ekman, Howard Gardner, Milton H. Erickson, and Gordon Allport. After him are John Bowlby, Hermann Rorschach, Eric Berne, Albert Ellis, Aaron T. Beck, and Donald Winnicott.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Hans Eysenck ranks 18Before him are Claude Shannon, Harold Wilson, Ahmed Ben Bella, Herbert A. Simon, João Havelange, and Ferruccio Lamborghini. After him are Yehudi Menuhin, Maurice Wilkins, Camilo José Cela, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Robert McNamara, and Frederick Chapman Robbins. Among people deceased in 1997, Hans Eysenck ranks 17Before him are Victor Vasarely, Anton LaVey, Paulo Freire, Israel Kamakawiwoʻole, Bohumil Hrabal, and The Notorious B.I.G.. After him are Isaiah Berlin, William S. Burroughs, Sviatoslav Richter, Melvin Calvin, Robert Mitchum, and Allen Ginsberg.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hans Eysenck ranks 396 out of 6,142Before him are Leo von Caprivi (1831), Louise Mountbatten (1889), Richard Dedekind (1831), Ernst Thälmann (1886), Harald zur Hausen (1936), and Ernst Busch (1885). After him are Joachim Peiper (1915), Hans Lippershey (1570), Walter Schellenberg (1910), Robert Ley (1890), Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1784), and Klaus Meine (1948).

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Germany

Among psychologists born in Germany, Hans Eysenck ranks 6Before him are Wilhelm Wundt (1832), Erich Fromm (1900), Erik Erikson (1902), Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850), and Karen Horney (1885). After him are Fritz Perls (1893), Ernst Kretschmer (1888), Kurt Koffka (1886), Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795), Karl Abraham (1877), and William Stern (1871).