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 511,951 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Lewis Terman is the 183rd most popular psychologist (down from 175th in 2019), the 4,652nd most popular biography from United States (down from 4,495th in 2019) and the 63rd most popular American Psychologist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Lewis Terman ranks 183 out of 235. Before him are Michael Gazzaniga, Jean Laplanche, Henri Nouwen, Jacques-Alain Miller, Robert D. Hare, and Louis Leon Thurstone. After him are Otto Binswanger, Victor Skumin, C. George Boeree, Karl H. Pribram, Lisbeth Palme, and Gustave Gilbert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Lewis Terman ranks 108. Before him are Luigi Maglione, Giuseppe Volpi, Mordechai Gebirtig, Edmund Gwenn, Elin Pelin, and Alessandro Pirzio Biroli. After him are Josephine Hull, Maurice Farman, Vladimir Gardin, Buddy Bolden, Giuseppe Pizzardo, and Aleksandr Khanzhonkov. Among people deceased in 1956, Lewis Terman ranks 120. Before him are Ágnes Esterházy, Elmer Drew Merrill, Helmer Hanssen, Jehanne D'Alcy, Henri Callot, and Johannes Jørgensen. After him are Navvab Safavi, Austin Osman Spare, Nikolaos Trikoupis, Willem Hendrik Keesom, Herminio Masantonio, and Ostap Vyshnya.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lewis Terman ranks 4,652 out of 20,380. Before him are Norman Holter (1914), Evelyne Hall (1909), Al Jardine (1942), Emmy Rossum (1986), Louis Leon Thurstone (1887), and Fats Waller (1904). After him are Nathaniel Palmer (1799), Ellsworth Kelly (1923), Richard Carpenter (1946), Miriam Hopkins (1902), Carol Kane (1952), and Arthur Cronquist (1919).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United States

Among psychologists born in United States, Lewis Terman ranks 63. Before him are Stanley Schachter (1922), Benjamin Libet (1916), James Hillman (1926), Raymond Moody (1944), Michael Gazzaniga (1939), and Louis Leon Thurstone (1887). After him are Gustave Gilbert (1911), Sandra Bem (1944), Michael Tomasello (1950), John C. Lilly (1915), Karl Lashley (1890), and Frank Rosenblatt (1928).

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