PSYCHOLOGIST

David Ausubel

1918 - 2008

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David Paul Ausubel (October 25, 1918 – July 9, 2008) was an American psychologist. His most significant contribution to the fields of educational psychology, cognitive science, and science education learning was on the development and research on "advance organizers" (see below) since 1960. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. David Ausubel is the 150th most popular psychologist (up from 152nd in 2019), the 3,761st most popular biography from United States (down from 3,253rd in 2019) and the 50th most popular American Psychologist.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, David Ausubel ranks 150 out of 235Before him are Brian Weiss, Roberto Assagioli, Léopold Szondi, Ulric Neisser, George Kelly, and Françoise Dolto. After him are Kurt Goldstein, Robert D. Hare, Arthur Janov, Johannes Heinrich Schultz, Michael Gazzaniga, and Frieda Fromm-Reichmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, David Ausubel ranks 129Before him are Kevin A. Lynch, Ángel Labruna, Teresa Wright, Raimon Panikkar, Igor Ansoff, and Marie Smith Jones. After him are Ján Kadár, Willi Graf, Hella Haasse, Aldo van Eyck, Shankar Dayal Sharma, and Humaira Begum. Among people deceased in 2008, David Ausubel ranks 130Before him are Lazare Ponticelli, Khiuaz Dospanova, Marie Smith Jones, Jürgen Ehlers, Joan Segarra, and Charles Tilly. After him are Mitch Mitchell, Gerard Damiano, Donald E. Westlake, Mieczysław Rakowski, Christodoulos of Athens, and Vice Vukov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, David Ausubel ranks 3,761 out of 20,380Before him are Richard Thorpe (1896), Ben Webster (1909), D. B. Weiss (1971), Bruce McGill (1950), Charles Tilly (1929), and Tico Torres (1953). After him are Dove Cameron (1996), Brenda Vaccaro (1939), Jack Kevorkian (1928), James Henry Breasted (1865), The Miz (1980), and Vito Acconci (1940).

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United States

Among psychologists born in United States, David Ausubel ranks 50Before him are Clark L. Hull (1884), Jonathan Haidt (1963), Elizabeth Loftus (1944), J. P. Guilford (1897), Brian Weiss (1944), and George Kelly (1905). After him are Arthur Janov (1924), Michael Gazzaniga (1939), James J. Gibson (1904), Stanley Schachter (1922), Harry Harlow (1905), and Arnold Gesell (1880).