PSYCHOLOGIST

Alfred Binet

1857 - 1911

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Alfred Binet (; French: [binɛ]; 8 July 1857 – 18 October 1911), born Alfredo Binetti, was a French psychologist who together with Théodore Simon invented the first practical intelligence test, the Binet–Simon test. In 1904, Binet took part in a commission set up by the French Ministry of Education to decide whether school children with learning difficulties should be sent to a special boarding school attached to a lunatic asylum, as advocated by the French psychiatrist and politician Désiré-Magloire Bourneville, or whether they should be educated in classes attached to regular schools as advocated by the Société libre pour l'étude psychologique de l'enfant (SLEPE) of which Binet was a member. There was also debate over who should decide whether a child was capable enough for regular education. Bourneville argued that a psychiatrist should do this based on a medical examination. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alfred Binet is the 30th most popular psychologist (down from 28th in 2019), the 497th most popular biography from France (down from 429th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular French Psychologist.

Alfred Binet was a French psychologist who is most famous for developing the first intelligence test.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Alfred Binet ranks 30 out of 235. Before him are Edward Thorndike, Melanie Klein, Wilhelm Reich, Gustav Fechner, Hermann Ebbinghaus, and Aaron T. Beck. After him are Karen Horney, Princess Marie Bonaparte, Howard Gardner, Gordon Allport, Paul Ekman, and Hermann Rorschach.

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Among people born in 1857, Alfred Binet ranks 16. Before him are Henrik Pontoppidan, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Alfonso XII of Spain, William Howard Taft, Ronald Ross, and Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. After him are Theo van Gogh, Eugen Bleuler, Alexander of Battenberg, Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Paul Doumer, and Antoni Grabowski. Among people deceased in 1911, Alfred Binet ranks 5. Before him are Gustav Mahler, Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Wilhelm Dilthey, and Francis Galton. After him are Joseph Pulitzer, Pyotr Stolypin, Paul Lafargue, Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, Emilio Salgari, Georg Jellinek, and Jules Joseph Lefebvre.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alfred Binet ranks 497 out of 6,770. Before him are Genevieve (423), Childebert I (497), Jean-Baptiste Say (1767), Robert Delaunay (1885), Philippe Pinel (1745), and Françoise Hardy (1944). After him are Jean-Martin Charcot (1825), Robert Campin (1375), Philippe Noiret (1930), Aimery of Cyprus (1172), Roger I of Sicily (1031), and Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In France

Among psychologists born in France, Alfred Binet ranks 3. Before him are Jacques Lacan (1901), and Gustave Le Bon (1841). After him are Princess Marie Bonaparte (1882), Pierre Janet (1859), Théodule-Armand Ribot (1839), Émile Coué (1857), Henri Wallon (1879), Françoise Dolto (1908), Jacques-Alain Miller (1944), Jean Laplanche (1924), and Boris Cyrulnik (1937).

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