PSYCHOLOGIST

Karl H. Pribram

1919 - 2015

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Karl H. Pribram (; German: [ˈpʁiːbram]; February 25, 1919 – January 19, 2015) was a professor at Georgetown University, in the United States, an emeritus professor of psychology and psychiatry at Stanford University and distinguished professor at Radford University. Board-certified as a neurosurgeon, Pribram did pioneering work on the definition of the limbic system, the relationship of the frontal cortex to the limbic system, the sensory-specific "association" cortex of the parietal and temporal lobes, and the classical motor cortex of the human brain. He worked with Karl Lashley at the Yerkes Primate Center of which he was to become director later. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl H. Pribram has received more than 201,510 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Karl H. Pribram is the 187th most popular psychologist (down from 177th in 2019), the 729th most popular biography from Austria (down from 676th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Austrian Psychologist.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Karl H. Pribram ranks 187 out of 235. Before him are Robert D. Hare, Louis Leon Thurstone, Lewis Terman, Otto Binswanger, Victor Skumin, and C. George Boeree. After him are Lisbeth Palme, Gustave Gilbert, Ronald Fairbairn, Laura Perls, Sandra Bem, and Michael Tomasello.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Karl H. Pribram ranks 191. Before him are Sam Wanamaker, Héctor Germán Oesterheld, Carole Landis, Hans Klenk, Lennie Tristano, and Michèle Arnaud. After him are Robert Pinget, Gene Barry, Lawrence Tierney, Nehemiah Persoff, Irmgard Seefried, and Mohammed Karim Lamrani. Among people deceased in 2015, Karl H. Pribram ranks 215. Before him are Hermann Zapf, Jules Bianchi, Fred Thompson, Roddy Piper, Qiao Shi, and Alex Rocco. After him are Ninón Sevilla, John Henry Holland, Revaz Chkheidze, Nicholas Liverpool, Michael Blake, and Dinkha IV.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Karl H. Pribram ranks 729 out of 1,424. Before him are František Svoboda (1906), Archduke Friedrich of Austria (1821), Erwin Komenda (1904), Harald Reinl (1908), Friedrich Welwitsch (1806), and Elisabeth von Gutmann (1875). After him are Fritz Kortner (1892), Walter Berry (1929), Caroline Unger (1803), Ceija Stojka (1933), Paula Wessely (1907), and Max Merkel (1918).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Austria

Among psychologists born in Austria, Karl H. Pribram ranks 15. Before him are René Spitz (1887), Heinz Kohut (1913), Otto F. Kernberg (1928), Walter Mischel (1930), Fritz Heider (1896), and Emma Eckstein (1865). After him are Marie Jahoda (1907).

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