PSYCHOLOGIST

Bluma Zeigarnik

1900 - 1988

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Bluma Zeigarnik (Russian: Блю́ма Ву́льфовна Зейга́рник, IPA: [ˈblʲumə ˈvulʲfəvnə zʲɪjˈɡarnʲɪk]; 9 November [O.S. 27 October] 1900 – 24 February 1988) was a Soviet psychologist of Lithuanian origin, a member of the Berlin School of experimental psychology and the so-called Vygotsky Circle. She contributed to the establishment of experimental psychopathology as a separate discipline in the Soviet Union in the post-World War II period. In the 1920s she conducted a study on memory, in which she compared memory in relation to interrupted and completed tasks. She had found that interrupted tasks are remembered better than completed ones; this is now known as the Zeigarnik effect. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bluma Zeigarnik is the 117th most popular psychologist (up from 118th in 2019), the 49th most popular biography from Lithuania (up from 50th in 2019) and the most popular Lithuanian Psychologist.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Bluma Zeigarnik ranks 117 out of 235Before her are Robert Sternberg, Édouard Claparède, Havelock Ellis, Marie-Louise von Franz, William McDougall, and James McKeen Cattell. After her are Heinz Kohut, Oswald Külpe, Amos Tversky, Jean Tatlock, Thomas Gordon, and Robert Plutchik.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Bluma Zeigarnik ranks 89Before her are Joseph Needham, Helene Weigel, Robert Desnos, Agnes Moorehead, Camille Chamoun, and Marc Allégret. After her are Hassan Fathy, Fulcanelli, Ernst Busch, Muhammad Asad, Wilhelm Rediess, and George Antheil. Among people deceased in 1988, Bluma Zeigarnik ranks 61Before her are Isamu Noguchi, René Char, Antonín Puč, Viktors Arājs, Renato Salvatori, and Raymond Dart. After her are Sergey Gorshkov, Takeo Miki, Lev Pontryagin, George Uhlenbeck, Vladimír Menšík, and Anna Mahler.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Bluma Zeigarnik ranks 49 out of 328Before her are Birutė (1317), Jacques Lipchitz (1891), Leo Jogiches (1867), Leopold Godowsky (1870), Augustinas Voldemaras (1883), and Gediminas Kirkilas (1951). After her are Arvydas Sabonis (1964), Jonas Basanavičius (1851), Simon Dach (1605), Jonas Mekas (1922), Audrys Bačkis (1937), and Antoni Radziwiłł (1775).

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Lithuania

Among psychologists born in Lithuania, Bluma Zeigarnik ranks 1