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George Armitage Miller

1920 - 2012

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George Armitage Miller (February 3, 1920 – July 22, 2012) was an American psychologist who was one of the founders of cognitive psychology, and more broadly, of cognitive science. He also contributed to the birth of psycholinguistics. Miller wrote several books and directed the development of WordNet, an online word-linkage database usable by computer programs. He authored the paper, "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two," in which he observed that many different experimental findings considered together reveal the presence of an average limit of seven for human short-term memory capacity. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. George Armitage Miller is the 81st most popular psychologist (down from 73rd in 2019), the 1,624th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,179th in 2019) and the 25th most popular American Psychologist.

George Armitage Miller is most famous for his research on memory and cognition. Miller's research on the "magical number seven" is what he is most well-known for. The "magical number seven" is the idea that people can only hold about seven pieces of information in their short-term memory at one time.

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Among psychologists, George Armitage Miller ranks 81 out of 235. Before him are Geert Hofstede, Wilfred Bion, Stanislav Grof, Edward B. Titchener, Alexander Bain, and David Wechsler. After him are Timothy Leary, Paul Watzlawick, Hugo Münsterberg, Ludwig Binswanger, G. Stanley Hall, and Edward C. Tolman.

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Among people born in 1920, George Armitage Miller ranks 68. Before him are Takashi Kano, Shelley Winters, Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington, César Rodríguez Álvarez, Isaac Stern, and Walter Nowotny. After him are Chiara Lubich, Dave Brubeck, Maureen O'Hara, Timothy Leary, John Harsanyi, and Elliot Richardson. Among people deceased in 2012, George Armitage Miller ranks 63. Before him are E. Donnall Thomas, Lucio Dalla, Chadli Bendjedid, Etta James, Carl Johan Bernadotte, and Carl Woese. After him are Tony Martin, Gustav Leonhardt, Dave Brubeck, John Atta Mills, J. Christopher Stevens, and Harry Carey Jr..

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George Armitage Miller ranks 1,624 out of 20,380. Before him are Paul Greengard (1925), Angela Bassett (1958), Edward C. Prescott (1940), Chris Cornell (1964), John Dickson Carr (1906), and Frances Willard (1839). After him are Martin Rodbell (1925), Tony Martin (1913), David Caruso (1956), Kelly McGillis (1957), Robert Fogel (1926), and Dick Fosbury (1947).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United States

Among psychologists born in United States, George Armitage Miller ranks 25. Before him are Roger Wolcott Sperry (1913), Stanley Milgram (1933), Leon Festinger (1919), Raymond Moody (1944), Philip Zimbardo (1933), and Mary Ainsworth (1913). After him are Timothy Leary (1920), G. Stanley Hall (1846), Edward C. Tolman (1886), Harry Stack Sullivan (1892), Benjamin Bloom (1913), and David McClelland (1917).

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