PSYCHOLOGIST

Richard Lynn

1930 - 2023

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Richard Lynn (20 February 1930 – July 2023) was a controversial English psychologist and self-described "scientific racist" who advocated for a genetic relationship between race and intelligence. He was the editor-in-chief of Mankind Quarterly, a white supremacist journal. He was lecturer in psychology at the University of Exeter and professor of psychology at the Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin, and at the University of Ulster at Coleraine. Lynn was a professor emeritus of psychology at Ulster University, but had the title withdrawn by the university in 2018. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Lynn is the 210th most popular psychologist (up from 214th in 2019), the 3,953rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,079th in 2019) and the 16th most popular British Psychologist.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Richard Lynn ranks 210 out of 235Before him are Nancy Chodorow, Endel Tulving, Christina Maslach, Sandra Bem, Marie Jahoda, and Karl Lashley. After him are Gordon Neufeld, Natalia Bekhtereva, Julian Jaynes, Alan Baddeley, Anatol Rapoport, and Neal E. Miller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Richard Lynn ranks 432Before him are Michael J. Adams, Kjell Espmark, Jacqueline du Bief, Oleg Anofriyev, Polly Bergen, and Chuck Daly. After him are Štefan Uher, Alakbar Mammadov, Estela de Carlotto, Kei Kumai, Marisol Escobar, and Eino Tamberg. Among people deceased in 2023, Richard Lynn ranks 380Before him are Bob Barker, Fay Weldon, Aracy Balabanian, Peter Brötzmann, Bernard Morel, and Heinrich Messner. After him are Pedro Solbes, Zdeněk Mácal, Nikica Valentić, Michael Lerner, Irma Serrano, and Richard Murphy.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Richard Lynn ranks 3,954 out of 8,785Before him are Fred Frith (1949), Mary Garden (1874), Mortimer Wheeler (1890), Georges Passerieu (1885), Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet (1800), and Leo Sayer (1948). After him are William Fothergill Cooke (1806), Zac Goldsmith (1975), Reginald Punnett (1875), Ben Davies (1993), Anna Lee (1913), and Prince Frederick of Great Britain (1750).

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among psychologists born in United Kingdom, Richard Lynn ranks 16Before him are Frederic Bartlett (1886), Ernest Jones (1879), Brenda Milner (1918), Ronald Fairbairn (1889), Anne Treisman (1935), and Robin Dunbar (1947). After him are Alan Baddeley (1934), Simon Baron-Cohen (1958), Cyril Burt (1883), and Richard Wiseman (1966).