PSYCHOLOGIST

James McKeen Cattell

1860 - 1944

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James McKeen Cattell (May 25, 1860 – January 20, 1944) was the first professor of psychology in the United States, teaching at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He was a long-time editor and publisher of scientific journals and publications, including Science, and served on the board of trustees for Science Service, now known as Society for Science from 1921 to 1944. At the beginning of Cattell's career, many scientists regarded psychology simply as a minor field of study, or as a pseudoscience like phrenology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James McKeen Cattell has received more than 231,210 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). James McKeen Cattell is the 89th most popular psychologist (up from 93rd in 2019), the 1,607th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,547th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular American Psychologist.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, James McKeen Cattell ranks 89 out of 235. Before him are David Wechsler, Walter Bradford Cannon, Donald O. Hebb, Hugo Münsterberg, David McClelland, and Rollo May. After him are Frederick Herzberg, Rudolf Arnheim, Muzafer Sherif, Théodule-Armand Ribot, Vladimir Bekhterev, and Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, James McKeen Cattell ranks 39. Before him are Gyula Andrássy the Younger, Isaac Levitan, Marianne von Werefkin, Vito Volterra, Mercedes of Orléans, and Gustave Charpentier. After him are Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria, Otto Jespersen, Jules Laforgue, Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia, Waldemar Haffkine, and Sergey Sazonov. Among people deceased in 1944, James McKeen Cattell ranks 79. Before him are Paul Poiret, Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg, Friedrich Dollmann, Paul Cornu, Milan Hodža, and Jakob von Uexküll. After him are Viktor Ullmann, E. M. Antoniadi, Vera Menchik, Thomas Midgley Jr., Paul Otlet, and Bernardino Machado.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, James McKeen Cattell ranks 1,607 out of 20,380. Before him are Beyoncé (1981), Steve Ditko (1927), Karen Grassle (1942), Barbara Hershey (1948), Edgar Mitchell (1930), and Bill Haley (1925). After him are Robert B. Laughlin (1950), Dudley R. Herschbach (1932), John D. Rockefeller Jr. (1874), Baruch Samuel Blumberg (1925), Joseph Nye (1937), and Frank Drake (1930).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United States

Among psychologists born in United States, James McKeen Cattell ranks 32. Before him are Timothy Leary (1920), Jean Tatlock (1914), G. Stanley Hall (1846), Walter Bradford Cannon (1871), David McClelland (1917), and Rollo May (1909). After him are Frederick Herzberg (1923), Benjamin Bloom (1913), Clark L. Hull (1884), Harry Stack Sullivan (1892), Jon Kabat-Zinn (1944), and Robert Cialdini (1945).

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