PSYCHOLOGIST

Edgar Rubin

1886 - 1951

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Edgar John Rubin (September 6, 1886 – May 3, 1951) was a Danish psychologist/phenomenologist, remembered for his work on figure-ground perception as seen in such optical illusions like the Rubin vase. Born to Jewish parents, Rubin was born and raised in Copenhagen. Enrolling at the University of Copenhagen in 1904, he majored in psychology and finished his magister artium examination in philosophy in 1910. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edgar Rubin is the 172nd most popular psychologist (down from 165th in 2019), the 328th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 298th in 2019) and the most popular Danish Psychologist.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Edgar Rubin ranks 172 out of 235. Before him are Henri Nouwen, Emma Eckstein, Rensis Likert, Dimitri Uznadze, Reuven Feuerstein, and James Hillman. After him are Henry Murray, Carol Dweck, Giacomo Rizzolatti, Benjamin Libet, Jean Laplanche, and Edgar Schein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Edgar Rubin ranks 165. Before him are Dimitri Uznadze, Divna Veković, Kálmán Darányi, Al Jolson, Chester Barnard, and Alexander Miasnikian. After him are Pierre Benoit, Aloïse Corbaz, Georges Vantongerloo, Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke, Stanisław Leśniewski, and Arthur Jeffrey Dempster. Among people deceased in 1951, Edgar Rubin ranks 104. Before him are Mohammad-Taqi Bahar, Abanindranath Tagore, John Paine, Pedro Salinas, Selim Palmgren, and José Enrique Varela. After him are Alphonse de Châteaubriant, Fritz Julius Kuhn, Angelos Sikelianos, Harry Kerr, Tilemachos Karakalos, and Fréhel.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Edgar Rubin ranks 328 out of 1,032. Before him are Ole Worm (1588), Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen (1872), Ebbe Schwartz (1901), Bodil Ipsen (1889), Karen Hoff (1921), and Helen of Sweden (1130). After him are Birthe Wilke (1936), Thomas Gravesen (1976), Frederick Christian I, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1721), Caspar Bartholin the Younger (1655), Albert Küchler (1803), and Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup (1825).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Denmark

Among psychologists born in Denmark, Edgar Rubin ranks 1. 

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