PSYCHOLOGIST

Jaak Panksepp

1943 - 2017

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Jaak Panksepp (June 5, 1943 – April 18, 2017) was an Estonian-American neuroscientist and psychobiologist who coined the term "affective neuroscience", the name for the field that studies the neural mechanisms of emotion. He was the Baily Endowed Chair of Animal Well-Being Science for the Department of Veterinary and Comparative Anatomy, Pharmacology, and Physiology at Washington State University's College of Veterinary Medicine, and Emeritus Professor of the Department of Psychology at Bowling Green State University. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jaak Panksepp has received more than 273,430 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Jaak Panksepp is the 196th most popular psychologist (up from 197th in 2019), the 116th most popular biography from Estonia (up from 141st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Estonian Psychologist.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Jaak Panksepp ranks 196 out of 235. Before him are Ronald Fairbairn, Laura Perls, Sandra Bem, Michael Tomasello, Frederik van Eeden, and Théodore Flournoy. After him are John C. Lilly, Alan Baddeley, Karl Lashley, Abraham Brill, Anne Treisman, and Frank Rosenblatt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Jaak Panksepp ranks 395. Before him are Luis Eduardo Aute, Frances Lee McCain, Bernd Patzke, Robert Durst, Hwang Sok-yong, and Juan Giménez. After him are Tony Joe White, Peter Sinfield, Janet Margolin, John Lennox, Androulla Vassiliou, and James L. Elliot. Among people deceased in 2017, Jaak Panksepp ranks 297. Before him are Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, Hrvoje Šarinić, Anthony Harvey, Paul G. Comba, József Tóth, and Victor Lanoux. After him are Bernard Panafieu, Hal Moore, Timo Mäkinen, Isabella Karle, Abdelmajid Dolmy, and Jean Vuarnet.

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In Estonia

Among people born in Estonia, Jaak Panksepp ranks 116 out of 351. Before him are Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann (1805), Oskar Luts (1887), Carl Friedrich Schmidt (1832), Juhan Smuul (1922), Martin Klein (1884), and Mart Siimann (1946). After him are Jakob Hurt (1839), Johannes Käbin (1905), Johann Köler (1826), Johannes Kotkas (1915), Juhan Kukk (1885), and Kristjan Palusalu (1908).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Estonia

Among psychologists born in Estonia, Jaak Panksepp ranks 2. Before him are Wolfgang Köhler (1887).

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