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PSYCHOLOGIST

Lewis Terman

1877 - 1956

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Lewis Madison Terman (January 15, 1877 – December 21, 1956) was an American psychologist, academic, and proponent of eugenics. He was noted as a pioneer in educational psychology in the early 20th century at the Stanford School of Education. Terman is best known for his revision of the Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scales and for initiating the longitudinal study of children with high IQs called the Genetic Studies of Genius. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lewis Terman has received more than 484,846 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Lewis Terman is the 175th most popular psychologist (down from 162nd in 2019), the 4,507th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,132nd in 2019) and the 62nd most popular American Psychologist.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Lewis Terman ranks 175 out of 183Before him are Edvard Moser, Brenda Milner, John C. Lilly, Boris Cyrulnik, Henri Nouwen, and Victor Skumin. After him are Alan Baddeley, Karl H. Pribram, Nise da Silveira, Michael Tomasello, Jonathan Haidt, and Louis Leon Thurstone.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Lewis Terman ranks 102Before him are Wehib Pasha, Alessandro Pirzio Biroli, Mohammad Ali Foroughi, Elin Pelin, William Hope Hodgson, and Luigi Maglione. After him are Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás, Georg Kolbe, Giuseppe Pizzardo, Buddy Bolden, Ned Maddrell, and Noël Bas. Among people deceased in 1956, Lewis Terman ranks 113Before him are Auguste Chevalier, Frigyes Riesz, Jean Hersholt, Preston Tucker, Austin Osman Spare, and Jehanne D'Alcy. After him are Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg, Herminio Masantonio, Teresa Feoderovna Ries, Ágnes Esterházy, Johann Radon, and Lorenzo Perosi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lewis Terman ranks 4,507 out of 18,182Before him are Francis Scott Key (1779), Jason Scott Lee (1966), Imogen Cunningham (1883), Robert Byrd (1917), Lance Reddick (1962), and Philip Bosco (1930). After him are Cynthia Rhodes (1956), Joseph Gordon-Levitt (1981), Tim Kang (1973), Ellen Axson Wilson (1860), MC Hammer (1962), and Larry Hankin (1940).

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United States

Among psychologists born in United States, Lewis Terman ranks 62Before him are Gustave Gilbert (1911), James Hillman (1926), Michael Gazzaniga (1939), Arthur Janov (1924), Elizabeth Loftus (1944), and John C. Lilly (1915). After him are Michael Tomasello (1950), Jonathan Haidt (1963), Louis Leon Thurstone (1887), Karl Lashley (1890), Robert Yerkes (1876), and Sandra Bem (1944).