PSYCHOLOGIST

Lee Cronbach

1916 - 2001

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Lee Joseph Cronbach (April 22, 1916 – October 1, 2001) was an American educational psychologist who made contributions to psychological testing and measurement. At the University of Illinois, Urbana, Cronbach produced many of his works: the "Alpha" paper (Cronbach, 1951), as well as an essay titled "The Two Disciplines of Scientific Psychology", in the American Psychologist magazine in 1957, where he discussed his thoughts on the increasing divergence between the fields of experimental psychology and correlational psychology (to which he himself belonged). Cronbach was the president of the American Psychological Association, president of the American Educational Research Association, Vida Jacks Professor of Education at Stanford University and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lee Cronbach has received more than 106,618 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Lee Cronbach is the 213th most popular psychologist (down from 190th in 2019), the 7,851st most popular biography from United States (down from 5,977th in 2019) and the 73rd most popular American Psychologist.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Lee Cronbach ranks 213 out of 235. Before him are Gordon Neufeld, Julian Jaynes, Robin Dunbar, Neal E. Miller, Marie Jahoda, and Nancy Chodorow. After him are Richard Lynn, Christina Maslach, Robert Yerkes, Judith Rich Harris, Elsa Cayat, and David Buss.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Lee Cronbach ranks 239. Before him are Ken Curtis, Edward Binns, Vicente Ferreira da Silva, Dorothy Cheney, David Brown, and John Kundla. After him are Frank Parker, Damián Iguacén Borau, Toni Branca, Krystyna Feldman, Lidia Wysocka, and Kazimierz Brandys. Among people deceased in 2001, Lee Cronbach ranks 249. Before him are Queen Aishwarya of Nepal, Ahmed Sofa, Villy Sørensen, Oldřich Lajsek, Ashok Kumar, and Dale Earnhardt. After him are Pavel Sadyrin, Leonid Osyka, Arthur Geoffrey Walker, Arne Sucksdorff, Sara Ashurbeyli, and Shidzue Katō.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lee Cronbach ranks 7,851 out of 20,380. Before him are Jane Bowles (1917), Charles A. Beard (1874), Paul Dano (1984), Stuart Hameroff (1947), Anya Taylor-Joy (1996), and Donna Mills (1940). After him are John Gardner (1933), Robben Ford (1951), Jaye Davidson (1968), William Alexander Morgan (1928), Tori Black (1988), and Scott Weiland (1967).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United States

Among psychologists born in United States, Lee Cronbach ranks 73. Before him are John C. Lilly (1915), Karl Lashley (1890), Frank Rosenblatt (1928), Julian Jaynes (1920), Neal E. Miller (1909), and Nancy Chodorow (1944). After him are Christina Maslach (1946), Robert Yerkes (1876), Judith Rich Harris (1938), David Buss (1953), August Dvorak (1894), and Jonathan Kellerman (1949).

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