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Lee Cronbach

1916 - 2001

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Lee Joseph Cronbach (April 22, 1916 – October 1, 2001) was an American educational psychologist who made contributions to psychological testing and measurement. At the University of Illinois, Urbana, Cronbach produced many of his works: the "Alpha" paper (Cronbach, 1951), as well as an essay titled "The Two Disciplines of Scientific Psychology", in the American Psychologist magazine in 1957, where he discussed his thoughts on the increasing divergence between the fields of experimental psychology and correlational psychology (to which he himself belonged). Cronbach was the president of the American Psychological Association, president of the American Educational Research Association, Vida Jacks Professor of Education at Stanford University and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lee Cronbach is the 217th most popular psychologist (down from 213th in 2019), the 9,056th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,853rd in 2019) and the 76th most popular American Psychologist.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Lee Cronbach ranks 217 out of 235. Before him are Gordon Neufeld, Natalia Bekhtereva, Julian Jaynes, Alan Baddeley, Anatol Rapoport, and Neal E. Miller. After him are Robert Yerkes, Elsa Cayat, Joseph Nicolosi, Uta Frith, David Buss, and Simon Baron-Cohen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Lee Cronbach ranks 254. Before him are Julien Darui, Ken Wharton, Gaylord Nelson, Don Keefer, Margaret Lockwood, and Krystyna Feldman. After him are Blas de Otero, Ken Curtis, Gyula Prassler, Ignacio Trelles, Kazimierz Brandys, and Lidia Wysocka. Among people deceased in 2001, Lee Cronbach ranks 280. Before him are Trịnh Công Sơn, Cornelius Warmerdam, Sachiko Hidari, Dale Earnhardt, Brenda Helser, and Dipendra of Nepal. After him are Pavel Sadyrin, Leonid Ostrovski, Richard Evans Schultes, Stepas Butautas, Otto Hemele, and Javed Iqbal.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lee Cronbach ranks 9,058 out of 20,380. Before him are Ro Khanna (1976), Fred Agabashian (1913), Daryl Stuermer (1952), George Washington Goethals (1858), Nancy Wilson (1937), and Susan Collins (1952). After him are Beth Grant (1949), Laurene Powell Jobs (1963), John Kitzmiller (1913), Brett Kavanaugh (1965), Kenneth Copeland (1936), and Robert Yerkes (1876).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United States

Among psychologists born in United States, Lee Cronbach ranks 76. Before him are Nancy Chodorow (1944), Christina Maslach (1946), Sandra Bem (1944), Karl Lashley (1890), Julian Jaynes (1920), and Neal E. Miller (1909). After him are Robert Yerkes (1876), Joseph Nicolosi (1947), David Buss (1953), August Dvorak (1894), Robert S. Woodworth (1869), and Christine Ladd-Franklin (1847).

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