PSYCHOLOGIST

Louis Leon Thurstone

1887 - 1955

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Louis Leon Thurstone (May 29, 1887 – September 29, 1955) was an American pioneer in the fields of psychometrics and psychophysics. He conceived the approach to measurement known as the law of comparative judgment, and is well known for his contributions to factor analysis. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Thurstone as the 88th most cited psychologist of the 20th century, tied with John Garcia, James J. Gibson, David Rumelhart, Margaret Floy Washburn, and Robert S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis Leon Thurstone has received more than 273,922 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Louis Leon Thurstone is the 182nd most popular psychologist (down from 181st in 2019), the 4,650th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,015th in 2019) and the 62nd most popular American Psychologist.

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  • 2.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Louis Leon Thurstone ranks 182 out of 235. Before him are Boris Cyrulnik, Michael Gazzaniga, Jean Laplanche, Henri Nouwen, Jacques-Alain Miller, and Robert D. Hare. After him are Lewis Terman, Otto Binswanger, Victor Skumin, C. George Boeree, Karl H. Pribram, and Lisbeth Palme.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Louis Leon Thurstone ranks 170. Before him are Pyotr Nesterov, Govind Ballabh Pant, Alvin York, Courtney Hodges, Sam Warner, and Thoralf Skolem. After him are Prince Aage, Count of Rosenborg, Joseph Orbeli, Rupert Brooke, Louise Arner Boyd, Marianne Moore, and Sylvia Beach. Among people deceased in 1955, Louis Leon Thurstone ranks 100. Before him are Wallace Stevens, Otto Gessler, Hans Hedtoft, Princess Elizabeth of Greece and Denmark, Sybille Schmitz, and Helena Roerich. After him are Karl Hofer, Guy Ropartz, Emmanuel de Martonne, Jenő Fuchs, Jonni Myyrä, and Robert E. Sherwood.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Louis Leon Thurstone ranks 4,650 out of 20,380. Before him are Charles Fort (1874), Olivia Wilde (1984), Norman Holter (1914), Evelyne Hall (1909), Al Jardine (1942), and Emmy Rossum (1986). After him are Fats Waller (1904), Lewis Terman (1877), Nathaniel Palmer (1799), Ellsworth Kelly (1923), Richard Carpenter (1946), and Miriam Hopkins (1902).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United States

Among psychologists born in United States, Louis Leon Thurstone ranks 62. Before him are Arnold Gesell (1880), Stanley Schachter (1922), Benjamin Libet (1916), James Hillman (1926), Raymond Moody (1944), and Michael Gazzaniga (1939). After him are Lewis Terman (1877), Gustave Gilbert (1911), Sandra Bem (1944), Michael Tomasello (1950), John C. Lilly (1915), and Karl Lashley (1890).

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