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PSYCHOLOGIST

John Bowlby

1907 - 1990

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Edward John Mostyn Bowlby, CBE, FBA, FRCP, FRCPsych (; 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 973,788 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). John Bowlby is the 37th most popular psychologist (up from 38th in 2019), the 359th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 356th in 2019) and the 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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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

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  • 11.02

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, John Bowlby ranks 37 out of 183. Before him are Jerome Bruner, Paul Ekman, Howard Gardner, Milton H. Erickson, Gordon Allport, and Hans Eysenck. After him are Hermann Rorschach, Eric Berne, Albert Ellis, Aaron T. Beck, Donald Winnicott, and Alfred Kinsey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, John Bowlby ranks 19. Before him are Yakov Dzhugashvili, Baldur von Schirach, Jacques Tati, Yang Shangkun, J. Hans D. Jensen, and Lin Biao. After him are Robert A. Heinlein, Frank Whittle, Nikolaas Tinbergen, Hans Selye, Hideki Yukawa, and Horst Wessel. Among people deceased in 1990, John Bowlby ranks 14. Before him are Leonard Bernstein, Alberto Moravia, Norbert Elias, Paulette Goddard, Sarah Vaughan, and Friedrich Dürrenmatt. After him are Pavel Cherenkov, Yun Posun, Sergei Parajanov, Lê Đức Thọ, Keith Haring, and Tunku Abdul Rahman.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Bowlby ranks 359 out of 7,765. Before him are Francis William Aston (1877), Ronald Coase (1910), Æthelflæd (869), Edward Victor Appleton (1892), Oswald Mosley (1896), and Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1844). After him are Theresa May (1956), George Paget Thomson (1892), John Ruskin (1819), John Boyd Dunlop (1840), Thomas Cromwell (1485), and Boudica (33).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among psychologists born in United Kingdom, John Bowlby ranks 1. After him are Donald Winnicott (1896), Raymond Cattell (1905), Edward B. Titchener (1867), Charles Spearman (1863), Frederic Bartlett (1886), R. D. Laing (1927), William McDougall (1871), Havelock Ellis (1859), Ernest Jones (1879), Alexander Bain (1818), and Brenda Milner (1918).

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