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Alfred Kinsey

1894 - 1956

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Alfred Charles Kinsey (; June 23, 1894 – August 25, 1956) was an American sexologist, biologist, and professor of entomology and zoology who, in 1947, founded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University, now known as the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. He is best known for writing Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953), also known as the Kinsey Reports, as well as for the Kinsey scale. Kinsey's research on human sexuality, foundational to the field of sexology, provoked controversy in the 1940s and 1950s, and has continued to provoke controversy decades after his death. His work has influenced social and cultural values in the United States as well as internationally. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alfred Kinsey is the 46th most popular psychologist (down from 44th in 2019), the 919th most popular biography from United States (down from 634th in 2019) and the 16th most popular American Psychologist.

Alfred Kinsey is most famous for his research on human sexuality. He was a biologist and professor of entomology and zoology at Indiana University. Kinsey's research focused on human sexuality, specifically the frequency of sexual behavior among both males and females, including homosexual activity, and sexual responses, among others.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Alfred Kinsey ranks 46 out of 235. Before him are Eric Berne, John Bowlby, Lawrence Kohlberg, Sabina Spielrein, Donald Winnicott, and Wolfgang Köhler. After him are Max Wertheimer, Milton H. Erickson, Ernst Heinrich Weber, Elton Mayo, Kurt Koffka, and Solomon Asch.

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Among people born in 1894, Alfred Kinsey ranks 28. Before him are Dietrich von Choltitz, Karl Böhm, Pyotr Kapitsa, Heinrich Lübke, Harold Macmillan, and Kiichiro Toyoda. After him are C. R. Swart, Hermann Oberth, Otto Grotewohl, Satyendra Nath Bose, Dashiell Hammett, and Benjamin Graham. Among people deceased in 1956, Alfred Kinsey ranks 20. Before him are Robert Walser, Bela Lugosi, Lucien Febvre, Risto Ryti, Konstantin Päts, and A. A. Milne. After him are Bolesław Bierut, Reinhold Glière, Alexander Rodchenko, Émile Borel, Ernest King, and Josef Hoffmann.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alfred Kinsey ranks 919 out of 20,380. Before him are Edward Emerson Barnard (1857), Farrah Fawcett (1947), Roy Orbison (1936), Pete Seeger (1919), Edwin S. Porter (1870), and George Cukor (1899). After him are Billie Jean King (1943), Alan Shepard (1923), Jimmy Hoffa (1913), William F. Buckley Jr. (1925), George Kennedy (1925), and J. E. B. Stuart (1833).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United States

Among psychologists born in United States, Alfred Kinsey ranks 16. Before him are Howard Gardner (1943), Gordon Allport (1897), Paul Ekman (1934), Jerome Bruner (1915), Albert Ellis (1913), and Lawrence Kohlberg (1927). After him are Milton H. Erickson (1901), Martin Seligman (1942), Roger Wolcott Sperry (1913), Stanley Milgram (1933), Leon Festinger (1919), and Raymond Moody (1944).

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