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PSYCHOLOGIST

Walter Bradford Cannon

1871 - 1945

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Walter Bradford Cannon (October 19, 1871 – October 1, 1945) was an American physiologist, professor and chairman of the Department of Physiology at Harvard Medical School. He coined the term "fight or flight response", and developed the theory of homeostasis. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter Bradford Cannon has received more than 306,475 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Walter Bradford Cannon is the 82nd most popular psychologist (up from 90th in 2019), the 1,279th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,410th in 2019) and the 30th most popular American Psychologist.

Walter Bradford Cannon was most famous for his theory of homeostasis. His theory states that the body is in a constant state of equilibrium, and that any change in the body's equilibrium is met with a response by the body.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Walter Bradford Cannon ranks 82 out of 183Before him are Karl Abraham, Alice Miller, Harry Harlow, William Stern, Paul Watzlawick, and David McClelland. After him are Muzafer Sherif, Ludwig Binswanger, Karl Bühler, Vladimir Bekhterev, Benjamin Bloom, and Donald O. Hebb.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, Walter Bradford Cannon ranks 32Before him are Stjepan Radić, Cordell Hull, Stephen Crane, Ernst Zermelo, William Stern, and Leonid Andreyev. After him are Lyonel Feininger, Princess Hélène of Orléans, Willem Mengelberg, Nicolae Iorga, Christian Morgenstern, and Sergei Bulgakov. Among people deceased in 1945, Walter Bradford Cannon ranks 87Before him are Josef Terboven, Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Hans Oster, Mitsuru Ushijima, Fritz Klein, and Plutarco Elías Calles. After him are Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger, Roza Shanina, Kurt Gerstein, Rudolf von Sebottendorf, Kiril, Prince of Preslav, and Philipp Bouhler.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Walter Bradford Cannon ranks 1,279 out of 18,182Before him are John Brown (1800), John Foster Dulles (1888), J. J. Cale (1938), Sam Cooke (1931), Raymond Davis Jr. (1914), and Chevy Chase (1943). After him are John D. Rockefeller Jr. (1874), Mike Shinoda (1977), Julius Axelrod (1912), John Payne (1912), Yonatan Netanyahu (1946), and James Garner (1928).

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United States

Among psychologists born in United States, Walter Bradford Cannon ranks 30Before him are Timothy Leary (1920), Frederick Herzberg (1923), G. Stanley Hall (1846), Mary Ainsworth (1913), Harry Harlow (1905), and David McClelland (1917). After him are Benjamin Bloom (1913), George Armitage Miller (1920), Rollo May (1909), James McKeen Cattell (1860), Harry Stack Sullivan (1892), and Benjamin Spock (1903).