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Hans Eysenck

1916 - 1997

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Hans Jürgen Eysenck ( EYE-zenk; 4 March 1916 – 4 September 1997) was a German-born British psychologist. He is best remembered for his work on intelligence and personality, although he worked on other issues in psychology. At the time of his death, Eysenck was the most frequently cited living psychologist in peer-reviewed scientific journal literature. Eysenck's research included claims that certain personality types had an elevated risk of cancer and heart disease and research on IQ scores and race (first published in 1971), which were a significant source of controversy. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hans Eysenck is the 38th most popular psychologist, the 576th most popular biography from Germany (down from 493rd in 2019) and the 6th most popular German Psychologist.

Hans Eysenck was a psychologist who is most famous for his work on personality and intelligence.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Hans Eysenck ranks 38 out of 235. Before him are Princess Marie Bonaparte, Howard Gardner, Gordon Allport, Paul Ekman, Hermann Rorschach, and Jerome Bruner. After him are Albert Ellis, Eric Berne, John Bowlby, Lawrence Kohlberg, Sabina Spielrein, and Donald Winnicott.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Hans Eysenck ranks 24. Before him are Yehudi Menuhin, Jean Dausset, Christian B. Anfinsen, Camilo José Cela, Claude Shannon, and Frederick Chapman Robbins. After him are Sune Bergström, Maurice Wilkins, Harold Wilson, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Walt Whitman Rostow, and Tsutomu Yamaguchi. Among people deceased in 1997, Hans Eysenck ranks 27. Before him are Robert Mitchum, Hugo Gunckel Lüer, Israel Kamakawiwoʻole, William S. Burroughs, Clyde Tombaugh, and Isaiah Berlin. After him are Bohumil Hrabal, Roy Lichtenstein, Fred Zinnemann, Edward Mills Purcell, Alfred Hershey, and Allen Ginsberg.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hans Eysenck ranks 576 out of 7,253. Before him are Hendrik Goltzius (1558), August Schleicher (1821), Adam Opel (1837), Willi Stoph (1914), Max Delbrück (1906), and Patrick Süskind (1949). After him are Johann Friedrich Struensee (1737), Johann Rudolf Glauber (1604), Fritz Walter (1920), Constanze Mozart (1762), Werner von Fritsch (1880), and Cunigunde of Luxembourg (978).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Germany

Among psychologists born in Germany, Hans Eysenck ranks 6. Before him are Erich Fromm (1900), Wilhelm Wundt (1832), Erik Erikson (1902), Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850), and Karen Horney (1885). After him are Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795), Kurt Koffka (1886), Fritz Perls (1893), William Stern (1871), Karl Bühler (1879), and Karl Abraham (1877).

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