PSYCHOLOGIST

Edgar Schein

1928 - 2023

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Edgar Henry Schein (March 5, 1928 – January 26, 2023) was a Swiss-born American business theorist and psychologist who was professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He was a foundational researcher in the discipline of organizational behavior, and made notable contributions in the field of organizational development in many areas, including career development, group process consultation, and organizational culture. He was the son of former University of Chicago professor Marcel Schein. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edgar Schein is the 178th most popular psychologist (down from 171st in 2019), the 382nd most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 313th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Swiss Psychologist.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Edgar Schein ranks 178 out of 235. Before him are Edgar Rubin, Henry Murray, Carol Dweck, Giacomo Rizzolatti, Benjamin Libet, and Jean Laplanche. After him are Julian Rotter, Abraham Brill, Georgi Lozanov, Nise da Silveira, Fritz Heider, and Otto Binswanger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Edgar Schein ranks 294. Before him are Veijo Meri, Tahir Salahov, Kevin Hagen, Gerald Bull, Flóra Kádár, and Estelle Harris. After him are Pierre Étaix, Emilio Pericoli, Robert Byrne, Eugenio Monti, Eve Meyer, and Jorge Ibargüengoitia. Among people deceased in 2023, Edgar Schein ranks 246. Before him are Grace Bumbry, Russell Banks, Marianne Werner, Francisco J. Ayala, Vassilis Vassilikos, and Denny Laine. After him are Slim Borgudd, Antonio Juliano, Dariush Mehrjui, Tengiz Kitovani, Lowell Weicker, and Colin Burgess.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Edgar Schein ranks 382 out of 1,015. Before him are Françoise Giroud (1916), Fritz Platten (1883), Anton Allemann (1936), Pirmin Zurbriggen (1963), James Pradier (1790), and Oliver Neuville (1973). After him are Wilhelm His Sr. (1831), Tariq Ramadan (1962), Alois Estermann (1954), Erhard Loretan (1959), Werner Bischof (1916), and Conrad Grebel (1498).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Switzerland

Among psychologists born in Switzerland, Edgar Schein ranks 7. Before him are Carl Jung (1875), Jean Piaget (1896), Hermann Rorschach (1884), Ludwig Binswanger (1881), Auguste Forel (1848), and Édouard Claparède (1873). After him are Otto Binswanger (1852), and Théodore Flournoy (1854).

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