1896 - 1980
Jean William Fritz Piaget (UK: , US: , French: [ʒɑ̃ pjaʒɛ]; 9 August 1896 – 16 September 1980) was a Swiss psychologist known for his work on child development. Piaget's theory of cognitive development and epistemological view are together called genetic epistemology. Piaget placed great importance on the education of children. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Piaget has received more than 4,769,318 page views. His biography is available in 82 different languages on Wikipedia. Jean Piaget is the 3rd most popular psychologist, the 6th most popular biography from Switzerland and the 2nd most popular Swiss Psychologist.
Jean Piaget was a Swiss psychologist who studied the cognitive development of children. He is most famous for his theory of cognitive development, which states that children develop in four stages: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational.
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Among psychologists, Jean Piaget ranks 3 out of 183. Before him are Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. After him are Abraham Maslow, Alfred Adler, Wilhelm Wundt, Lev Vygotsky, Erich Fromm, John Dewey, Jacques Lacan, William James, and Erik Erikson.
1856 - 1939
HPI: 89.62
Rank: 1
1875 - 1961
HPI: 81.22
Rank: 2
1896 - 1980
HPI: 80.95
Rank: 3
1908 - 1970
HPI: 79.14
Rank: 4
1870 - 1937
HPI: 78.40
Rank: 5
1832 - 1920
HPI: 77.34
Rank: 6
1896 - 1934
HPI: 77.29
Rank: 7
1900 - 1980
HPI: 77.25
Rank: 8
1859 - 1952
HPI: 77.23
Rank: 9
1901 - 1981
HPI: 76.13
Rank: 10
1842 - 1910
HPI: 75.72
Rank: 11
1902 - 1994
HPI: 75.72
Rank: 12
Among people born in 1896, Jean Piaget ranks 1. After him are F. Scott Fitzgerald, Wallis Simpson, Lev Vygotsky, Georgy Zhukov, André Breton, Imre Nagy, Tristan Tzara, Roman Jakobson, Konstantin Rokossovsky, Antonin Artaud, and Eugenio Montale. Among people deceased in 1980, Jean Piaget ranks 5. Before him are Jean-Paul Sartre, Josip Broz Tito, Alfred Hitchcock, and Karl Dönitz. After him are John Lennon, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Erich Fromm, Roland Barthes, Steve McQueen, Bon Scott, and Jesse Owens.
1896 - 1980
HPI: 80.95
Rank: 1
1896 - 1940
HPI: 80.19
Rank: 2
1896 - 1986
HPI: 79.31
Rank: 3
1896 - 1934
HPI: 77.29
Rank: 4
1896 - 1974
HPI: 77.08
Rank: 5
1896 - 1966
HPI: 73.89
Rank: 6
1896 - 1958
HPI: 73.67
Rank: 7
1896 - 1963
HPI: 72.59
Rank: 8
1896 - 1982
HPI: 72.05
Rank: 9
1896 - 1968
HPI: 70.37
Rank: 10
1896 - 1948
HPI: 70.31
Rank: 11
1896 - 1981
HPI: 70.22
Rank: 12
1905 - 1980
HPI: 84.51
Rank: 1
1892 - 1980
HPI: 83.57
Rank: 2
1899 - 1980
HPI: 82.72
Rank: 3
1891 - 1980
HPI: 81.39
Rank: 4
1896 - 1980
HPI: 80.95
Rank: 5
1940 - 1980
HPI: 80.02
Rank: 6
1919 - 1980
HPI: 77.95
Rank: 7
1900 - 1980
HPI: 77.25
Rank: 8
1915 - 1980
HPI: 73.91
Rank: 9
1930 - 1980
HPI: 73.26
Rank: 10
1946 - 1980
HPI: 71.64
Rank: 11
1913 - 1980
HPI: 71.38
Rank: 12
Among people born in Switzerland, Jean Piaget ranks 6 out of 876. Before him are Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712), Leonhard Euler (1707), Le Corbusier (1887), Paracelsus (1493), and Carl Jung (1875). After him are Henry Dunant (1828), Ferdinand de Saussure (1857), Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746), Jean-Paul Marat (1743), Sepp Blatter (1936), and Paul Klee (1879).
1712 - 1778
HPI: 89.83
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1707 - 1783
HPI: 84.57
Rank: 2
1887 - 1965
HPI: 82.89
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1493 - 1541
HPI: 81.43
Rank: 4
1875 - 1961
HPI: 81.22
Rank: 5
1896 - 1980
HPI: 80.95
Rank: 6
1828 - 1910
HPI: 80.37
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1857 - 1913
HPI: 78.58
Rank: 8
1746 - 1827
HPI: 76.85
Rank: 9
1743 - 1793
HPI: 76.23
Rank: 10
1936 - Present
HPI: 76.14
Rank: 11
1879 - 1940
HPI: 75.98
Rank: 12
Among psychologists born in Switzerland, Jean Piaget ranks 2. Before him are Carl Jung (1875). After him are Hermann Rorschach (1884), Ludwig Binswanger (1881), Édouard Claparède (1873), Auguste Forel (1848), and Théodore Flournoy (1854).
1875 - 1961
HPI: 81.22
Rank: 1
1896 - 1980
HPI: 80.95
Rank: 2
1884 - 1922
HPI: 66.49
Rank: 3
1881 - 1966
HPI: 60.44
Rank: 4
1873 - 1940
HPI: 57.72
Rank: 5
1848 - 1931
HPI: 55.70
Rank: 6
1854 - 1920
HPI: 46.06
Rank: 7