PSYCHOLOGIST

John Bowlby

1907 - 1990

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Edward John Mostyn Bowlby (; 26 February 1907 – 2 September 1990) was a British psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst, notable for his interest in child development and for his pioneering work in attachment theory. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Bowlby has received more than 1,051,250 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. John Bowlby is the 40th most popular psychologist (down from 37th in 2019), the 431st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 359th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular British Psychologist.

John Bowlby is most famous for his attachment theory, which states that the bonds between a child and their caregiver are crucial for healthy development.

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  • 70.57

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  • 29

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  • 10.07

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  • 2.02

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, John Bowlby ranks 40 out of 235. Before him are Paul Ekman, Jerome Bruner, Eric Berne, Lawrence Kohlberg, Hans Eysenck, and Donald Winnicott. After him are Milton H. Erickson, Wolfgang Köhler, Elton Mayo, Alfred Kinsey, Max Wertheimer, and Sándor Ferenczi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, John Bowlby ranks 26. Before him are Hideki Yukawa, Robert A. Heinlein, Lars Ahlfors, Yang Shangkun, Bhagat Singh, and Fred Zinnemann. After him are Horst Wessel, Nikolaas Tinbergen, Sister Lúcia, François Duvalier, Daniel Bovet, and Daphne du Maurier. Among people deceased in 1990, John Bowlby ranks 19. Before him are Norbert Elias, Lê Đức Thọ, Sergei Parajanov, Pavel Cherenkov, Yun Posun, and Miguel Muñoz. After him are Tunku Abdul Rahman, Lawrence Durrell, Bruno Bettelheim, Ilya Frank, Robert Hofstadter, and Sandro Pertini.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Bowlby ranks 431 out of 8,785. Before him are John Barry (1933), Bartholomew Roberts (1682), D. H. Lawrence (1885), Gertrude Bell (1868), John Buchan (1875), and Sam Neill (1947). After him are John Donne (1572), Ralph Fiennes (1962), Isaac Barrow (1631), Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861), Elizabeth Blackwell (1821), and Richard Attenborough (1923).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among psychologists born in United Kingdom, John Bowlby ranks 2. Before him are Donald Winnicott (1896). After him are Raymond Cattell (1905), Edward B. Titchener (1867), Charles Spearman (1863), R. D. Laing (1927), William McDougall (1871), Frederic Bartlett (1886), Havelock Ellis (1859), Alexander Bain (1818), Ernest Jones (1879), and Brenda Milner (1918).

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