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PSYCHOLOGIST

Simon Baron-Cohen

1958 - Today

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Sir Simon Philip Baron-Cohen (born 15 August 1958) is a British clinical psychologist and professor of developmental psychopathology at the University of Cambridge. He is the director of the university's Autism Research Centre and a Fellow of Trinity College. In 1985, Baron-Cohen formulated the mindblindness theory of autism, the evidence for which he collated and published in 1995. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Simon Baron-Cohen has received more than 2,121,612 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Simon Baron-Cohen is the 204th most popular psychologist (down from 179th in 2019), the 4,479th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,915th in 2019) and the 17th most popular British Psychologist.

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  • 21

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  • 2.52

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  • 3.40

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Simon Baron-Cohen ranks 204 out of 183Before him are Anne Treisman, C. George Boeree, Joseph Nicolosi, Dan Ariely, Uta Frith, and Robin Dunbar. After him are Elsa Cayat, Arthur Jensen, and Richard Wiseman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Simon Baron-Cohen ranks 331Before him are Bill Berry, Thomas Reiter, Sergei Pavlovich Baltacha, Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo, Antoine Kambanda, and Mark King. After him are Wendie Jo Sperber, David O'Leary, Frank Ullrich, Derek Riggs, Tom Shadyac, and Scott Hall.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Simon Baron-Cohen ranks 4,479 out of 7,765Before him are Alex Garland (1970), George Montagu (1751), Isabel Jeans (1891), Mark King (1958), Brian Bennett (1940), and Ali Smith (1962). After him are Andy Fraser (1952), Sam Taylor-Johnson (1967), Harry Blackstaffe (1868), Alasdair Gray (1934), John Le Mesurier (1912), and James Oglethorpe (1696).

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among psychologists born in United Kingdom, Simon Baron-Cohen ranks 17Before him are Alexander Bain (1818), Brenda Milner (1918), Alan Baddeley (1934), Ronald Fairbairn (1889), Anne Treisman (1935), and Robin Dunbar (1947). After him are Richard Wiseman (1966).

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