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PSYCHOLOGIST

Harry Harlow

1905 - 1981

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Harry Frederick Harlow (October 31, 1905 – December 6, 1981) was an American psychologist best known for his maternal-separation, dependency needs, and social isolation experiments on rhesus monkeys, which manifested the importance of caregiving and companionship to social and cognitive development. He conducted most of his research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow worked with him for a short period of time. Harlow's experiments were ethically controversial; they included creating inanimate wire and wood surrogate "mothers" for the rhesus infants. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harry Harlow has received more than 1,523,014 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Harry Harlow is the 78th most popular psychologist (up from 153rd in 2019), the 1,207th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,402nd in 2019) and the 28th most popular American Psychologist.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Harry Harlow ranks 78 out of 183. Before him are Kurt Koffka, Mary Ainsworth, Otto Rank, Ernst Heinrich Weber, Karl Abraham, and Alice Miller. After him are William Stern, Paul Watzlawick, David McClelland, Walter Bradford Cannon, Muzafer Sherif, and Ludwig Binswanger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Harry Harlow ranks 41. Before him are Ulf von Euler, George H. Hitchings, Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark, Ivan Serov, Fred Trump, and Prince John of the United Kingdom. After him are Otto Preminger, Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Albert Pierrepoint, Takashi Shimura, Carl Gustav Hempel, and Erwin Chargaff. Among people deceased in 1981, Harry Harlow ranks 36. Before him are Abel Gance, Mohammad-Ali Rajai, Miroslav Krleža, David Wechsler, Zarah Leander, and Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark. After him are Will Durant, Bill Haley, Bernard Lee, Lobsang Rampa, Leo Kanner, and Omar Torrijos.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Harry Harlow ranks 1,207 out of 18,182. Before him are Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967), Pete Seeger (1919), J. K. Simmons (1955), Vincente Minnelli (1903), Stanley Kramer (1913), and Stephanie Kwolek (1923). After him are Idina Menzel (1971), E. Donnall Thomas (1920), Bruce Dern (1936), Arthur Kornberg (1918), Mike Markkula (1942), and Mary Jackson (1921).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United States

Among psychologists born in United States, Harry Harlow ranks 28. Before him are Roger Wolcott Sperry (1913), Edward C. Tolman (1886), Timothy Leary (1920), Frederick Herzberg (1923), G. Stanley Hall (1846), and Mary Ainsworth (1913). After him are David McClelland (1917), Walter Bradford Cannon (1871), Benjamin Bloom (1913), George Armitage Miller (1920), Rollo May (1909), and James McKeen Cattell (1860).

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