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 1,851,182 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Henry Murray is the 120th most popular psychologist (up from 125th in 2019), the 2,256th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,378th in 2019) and the 41st most popular American Psychologist.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Henry Murray ranks 120 out of 235. Before him are Adolf Bastian, Aleksei N. Leontiev, Robert Sternberg, Oswald Külpe, Bluma Zeigarnik, and Thomas Gordon. After him are Carol Gilligan, Ulric Neisser, Robert Plutchik, Otto F. Kernberg, Urie Bronfenbrenner, and Serge Moscovici.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Henry Murray ranks 79. Before him are Wilhelm Zaisser, Leonarda Cianciulli, Jean Absil, Carl Værnet, Dorothy Parker, and Dean Acheson. After him are Armand Călinescu, Hyacinth Graf Strachwitz, William Moulton Marston, Clark Ashton Smith, Alexander Korda, and Ivan Panfilov. Among people deceased in 1988, Henry Murray ranks 64. Before him are John Carradine, George Uhlenbeck, Sergey Gorshkov, Vladimír Menšík, Lev Pontryagin, and Bluma Zeigarnik. After him are Branko Zebec, Takeo Miki, Anna Mahler, Piero Taruffi, Viktors Arājs, and Charles Addams.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Henry Murray ranks 2,256 out of 20,380. Before him are Cy Twombly (1928), Robert Silverberg (1935), Terry O'Quinn (1952), James Rothman (1950), Joe Perry (1950), and Djuna Barnes (1892). After him are Joseph D. Pistone (1939), Johnny Winter (1944), Stanley Donen (1924), Chazz Palminteri (1952), Michael Walzer (1935), and Betty Friedan (1921).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United States

Among psychologists born in United States, Henry Murray ranks 41. Before him are Clark L. Hull (1884), Harry Stack Sullivan (1892), Jon Kabat-Zinn (1944), Robert Cialdini (1945), Robert Sternberg (1949), and Thomas Gordon (1918). After him are Carol Gilligan (1936), Robert Plutchik (1927), George Kelly (1905), J. P. Guilford (1897), Brian Weiss (1944), and Elizabeth Loftus (1944).

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