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. 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 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Hans Eysenck is the 38th most popular psychologist (down from 36th in 2019), the 493rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 396th 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.

Memorability Metrics

  • 850k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 66.44

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 53

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Hans Eysencks by language

Over the past year Hans Eysenck has had the most page views in the with 82,308 views, followed by Russian (25,576), and Spanish (21,021). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Volapük (418.45%), Esperanto (211.65%), and Malagasy (104.22%)

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Hans Eysenck ranks 38 out of 235. Before him are Howard Gardner, Gordon Allport, Paul Ekman, Jerome Bruner, Eric Berne, and Lawrence Kohlberg. After him are Donald Winnicott, John Bowlby, Milton H. Erickson, Wolfgang Köhler, Elton Mayo, and Alfred Kinsey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Hans Eysenck ranks 22. Before him are Olivia de Havilland, Ruth Handler, Harold Wilson, Yehudi Menuhin, Herbert A. Simon, and Tsutomu Yamaguchi. After him are Maurice Wilkins, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Alexander Prokhorov, Camilo José Cela, Jack Vance, and Robert McNamara. Among people deceased in 1997, Hans Eysenck ranks 20. Before him are Melvin Calvin, The Notorious B.I.G., Roy Lichtenstein, Bohumil Hrabal, Chaim Herzog, and Sviatoslav Richter. After him are William S. Burroughs, Fred Zinnemann, Isaiah Berlin, Allen Ginsberg, Bảo Đại, and Helenio Herrera.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hans Eysenck ranks 493 out of 7,253. Before him are Dietrich von Choltitz (1894), Emile Berliner (1851), Maria Josepha of Saxony, Dauphine of France (1731), Otto Loewi (1873), Sophia of Nassau (1836), and Jean Paul (1763). After him are Samuel von Pufendorf (1632), Pope Victor II (1018), Fritz Todt (1891), Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1879), Lothair II, Holy Roman Emperor (1075), and Lucas Cranach the Younger (1515).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Germany

Among psychologists born in Germany, Hans Eysenck ranks 6. Before him are Erich Fromm (1900), Wilhelm Wundt (1832), Erik Erikson (1902), Karen Horney (1885), and Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850). After him are Kurt Koffka (1886), Fritz Perls (1893), Karl Abraham (1877), Ernst Kretschmer (1888), Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795), and Karl Bühler (1879).

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