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PSYCHOLOGIST

Henry Murray

1893 - 1988

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Henry Alexander Murray (May 13, 1893 – June 23, 1988) was an American psychologist at Harvard University. From 1959 to 1962, he conducted a series of psychologically damaging and purposefully abusive experiments on minors and undergraduate students. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry Murray has received more than 1,812,275 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Henry Murray is the 125th most popular psychologist (up from 130th in 2019), the 2,381st most popular biography from United States (up from 2,617th in 2019) and the 44th most popular American Psychologist.

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  • 24

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Henry Murray ranks 125 out of 183. Before him are Henri Wallon, Adolf Bastian, William McDougall, Robert Plutchik, Robert Cialdini, and Steven Pinker. After him are Thomas Gordon, Auguste Forel, Ulric Neisser, Amos Tversky, Oswald Külpe, and Franz Alexander.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Henry Murray ranks 81. Before him are Clark Ashton Smith, Bill Tilden, William Dieterle, Dean Acheson, Matthias Kleinheisterkamp, and Merian C. Cooper. After him are Dorothy L. Sayers, Bai Chongxi, Clas Thunberg, Alexander Korda, Hyacinth Graf Strachwitz, and Nestor Lakoba. Among people deceased in 1988, Henry Murray ranks 62. Before him are Renato Salvatori, René Char, Antonín Puč, Giacinto Scelsi, Vladimír Menšík, and Luis Walter Alvarez. After him are George Uhlenbeck, Ilona Elek, Raymond Dart, Antal Doráti, Lev Pontryagin, and Andy Gibb.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Henry Murray ranks 2,381 out of 18,182. Before him are Merian C. Cooper (1893), Nicholas Murray Butler (1862), Bruce Beutler (1957), Dick Sargent (1930), Casey Affleck (1975), and Wes Montgomery (1923). After him are Nick Holonyak (1928), Thomas Gordon (1918), Henry H. Arnold (1886), Fredric March (1897), Joe Perry (1950), and Brion James (1945).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United States

Among psychologists born in United States, Henry Murray ranks 44. Before him are Carol Gilligan (1936), George Kelly (1905), Jon Kabat-Zinn (1944), Robert Sternberg (1949), Robert Plutchik (1927), and Robert Cialdini (1945). After him are Thomas Gordon (1918), Arnold Gesell (1880), David Ausubel (1918), Stanley Schachter (1922), J. P. Guilford (1897), and Benjamin Libet (1916).

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