PSYCHOLOGIST

Richard Lynn

1930 - 2023

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Richard Lynn (20 February 1930 – July 2023) was a controversial English psychologist and self-described "scientific racist" who advocated for a genetic relationship between race and intelligence. He was the editor-in-chief of Mankind Quarterly, a white supremacist journal. He was lecturer in psychology at the University of Exeter and professor of psychology at the Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin, and at the University of Ulster at Coleraine. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Lynn has received more than 725,218 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Lynn is the 214th most popular psychologist, the 4,079th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 17th most popular British Psychologist.

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  • 730k

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  • 53.59

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.57

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Richard Lynn ranks 214 out of 235. Before him are Julian Jaynes, Robin Dunbar, Neal E. Miller, Marie Jahoda, Nancy Chodorow, and Lee Cronbach. After him are Christina Maslach, Robert Yerkes, Judith Rich Harris, Elsa Cayat, David Buss, and Simon Baron-Cohen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Richard Lynn ranks 457. Before him are Eugen Meier, Olavi Mannonen, Dan Pagis, Bob Baetens, Beryl Penrose, and Kurt Biedenkopf. After him are José Guardiola, José Luis Artetxe, Pavel Kolchin, Adam Maida, Adam Darius, and Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde. Among people deceased in 2023, Richard Lynn ranks 480. Before him are Attila Abonyi, Pōhiva Tuʻiʻonetoa, Benjamin Zephaniah, Julie Garwood, Cindy Williams, and Herb Kohl. After him are Dick Butkus, Kenneth McAlpine, Lisa Loring, Ritt Bjerregaard, Sergey Tereshchenko, and Frank Shu.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Richard Lynn ranks 4,079 out of 8,785. Before him are Stafford Beer (1926), Aneirin (525), Richard Rodney Bennett (1936), Thomas Hodgskin (1787), Jayne Atkinson (1959), and Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet (1800). After him are Frank Morley (1860), Vivian Campbell (1962), Tina Charles (1954), Pybba of Mercia (570), Ali Smith (1962), and Dan Stevens (1982).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among psychologists born in United Kingdom, Richard Lynn ranks 17. Before him are Ernest Jones (1879), Brenda Milner (1918), Ronald Fairbairn (1889), Alan Baddeley (1934), Anne Treisman (1935), and Robin Dunbar (1947). After him are Simon Baron-Cohen (1958), Cyril Burt (1883), and Richard Wiseman (1966).

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