PSYCHOLOGIST

Karl Lashley

1890 - 1958

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Karl Spencer Lashley (June 7, 1890 – August 7, 1958) was an American psychologist and behaviorist remembered for his contributions to the study of learning and memory. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Lashley as the 61st most cited psychologist of the 20th century. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Karl Lashley is the 209th most popular psychologist (down from 199th in 2019), the 7,509th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,884th in 2019) and the 73rd most popular American Psychologist.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Karl Lashley ranks 209 out of 235. Before him are Robin Dunbar, Nancy Chodorow, Endel Tulving, Christina Maslach, Sandra Bem, and Marie Jahoda. After him are Richard Lynn, Gordon Neufeld, Natalia Bekhtereva, Julian Jaynes, Alan Baddeley, and Anatol Rapoport.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Karl Lashley ranks 186. Before him are Klabund, Paul Scherrer, Eino Kaila, Suniti Kumar Chatterji, Herbert Marshall, and Gustaf Weidel. After him are Paul Whiteman, Robert Lindsay, Mortimer Wheeler, Cecil Kellaway, Jean Piot, and Gopinath Bordoloi. Among people deceased in 1958, Karl Lashley ranks 145. Before him are Eino Kaila, Otto Witte, Jean Debucourt, Vladimir Lossky, Mary Ritter Beard, and Estelle Taylor. After him are Nezihe Muhiddin, Feodor Gladkov, Stevan Hristić, Peter Whitehead, Robert Lindsay, and Petr Bezruč.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Karl Lashley ranks 7,511 out of 20,380. Before him are Brock Peters (1927), Willie Steele (1923), Carrie Nation (1846), Bebe Neuwirth (1958), Robert Lowell (1917), and Frederic Remington (1861). After him are Shirley Verrett (1931), Aaron Norris (1951), Ellen Churchill Semple (1863), Mario Segale (1934), Harold Gould (1923), and Diana Muldaur (1938).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United States

Among psychologists born in United States, Karl Lashley ranks 73. Before him are Michael Tomasello (1950), Louis Leon Thurstone (1887), Judith Rich Harris (1938), Nancy Chodorow (1944), Christina Maslach (1946), and Sandra Bem (1944). After him are Julian Jaynes (1920), Neal E. Miller (1909), Lee Cronbach (1916), Robert Yerkes (1876), Joseph Nicolosi (1947), and David Buss (1953).

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