PSYCHOLOGIST

Howard Gardner

1943 - Today

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Howard Earl Gardner (born July 11, 1943) is an American developmental psychologist and the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Research Professor of Cognition and Education at Harvard University. He was a founding member of Harvard Project Zero in 1967 and held leadership roles at that research center from 1972 to 2023. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Howard Gardner has received more than 1,451,666 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Howard Gardner is the 32nd most popular psychologist (up from 33rd in 2019), the 434th most popular biography from United States (down from 403rd in 2019) and the 9th most popular American Psychologist.

Howard Gardner is most famous for his theory of multiple intelligences.

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  • 45

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  • 9.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Howard Gardner ranks 32 out of 235. Before him are Gustav Fechner, Karen Horney, Alfred Binet, Hermann Ebbinghaus, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, and Hermann Rorschach. After him are Gordon Allport, Paul Ekman, Jerome Bruner, Eric Berne, Lawrence Kohlberg, and Hans Eysenck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Howard Gardner ranks 30. Before him are Elena Ferrante, Joseph Stiglitz, Salvatore Adamo, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Tarja Halonen, and Mohammad Khatami. After him are Horst Köhler, Raffaella Carrà, David Cronenberg, Bernard Tapie, John Kerry, and Khalifa Haftar.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Howard Gardner ranks 434 out of 20,380. Before him are Shirley MacLaine (1934), Hugh Hefner (1926), Stephen Hillenburg (1961), Millard Fillmore (1800), Lewis H. Morgan (1818), and Susan Sontag (1933). After him are The Notorious B.I.G. (1972), J. Paul Getty (1892), Richard Widmark (1914), Jim Mattis (1950), Albert Fish (1870), and Michael Porter (1947).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United States

Among psychologists born in United States, Howard Gardner ranks 9. Before him are William James (1842), Carl Rogers (1902), John B. Watson (1878), Irvin D. Yalom (1931), Edward Thorndike (1874), and B. F. Skinner (1904). After him are Gordon Allport (1897), Paul Ekman (1934), Jerome Bruner (1915), Lawrence Kohlberg (1927), Milton H. Erickson (1901), and Alfred Kinsey (1894).

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