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Jon Kabat-Zinn

1944 - Today

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Jon Kabat-Zinn (born Jon Kabat, June 5, 1944) is an American professor emeritus of medicine and the creator of the Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Kabat-Zinn was a student of Zen Buddhist teachers such as Philip Kapleau, Thich Nhat Hanh, and Seung Sahn, and a founding member of Cambridge Zen Center. His practice of hatha yoga, Vipassanā and appreciation of the teachings of Soto Zen and Advaita Vedanta led him to integrate their teachings with scientific findings. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jon Kabat-Zinn has received more than 1,728,234 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Jon Kabat-Zinn is the 106th most popular psychologist (up from 116th in 2019), the 1,903rd most popular biography from United States (up from 2,105th in 2019) and the 37th most popular American Psychologist.

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  • 21

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  • 5.52

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  • 2.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Jon Kabat-Zinn ranks 106 out of 235. Before him are Clark L. Hull, René Spitz, Charles Spearman, Harry Stack Sullivan, Michael Balint, and Auguste Forel. After him are R. D. Laing, Édouard Claparède, William McDougall, John Money, Heinz Kohut, and Robert Cialdini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Jon Kabat-Zinn ranks 138. Before him are Petar Zhekov, Faisal bin Musaid Al Saud, Norodom Ranariddh, Herbert Wimmer, Gianfranco Ferré, and Gary Busey. After him are Ayad Allawi, Luis Ladaria Ferrer, Ron Huldai, Willem van Hanegem, Christian Boltanski, and Kiri Te Kanawa.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jon Kabat-Zinn ranks 1,903 out of 20,380. Before him are Gary Busey (1944), Louis Zamperini (1917), Don Murray (1929), Peter Criss (1945), Ken Norton (1943), and Ernie Hudson (1945). After him are Winsor McCay (1867), Jerry Stiller (1927), Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. (1915), John Dickson Carr (1906), Johns Hopkins (1795), and Richard Rodgers (1902).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United States

Among psychologists born in United States, Jon Kabat-Zinn ranks 37. Before him are Rollo May (1909), James McKeen Cattell (1860), Frederick Herzberg (1923), Benjamin Bloom (1913), Clark L. Hull (1884), and Harry Stack Sullivan (1892). After him are Robert Cialdini (1945), Robert Sternberg (1949), Thomas Gordon (1918), Henry Murray (1893), Carol Gilligan (1936), and Robert Plutchik (1927).

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