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Ulric Neisser

1928 - 2012

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Ulric Richard Gustav Neisser (December 8, 1928 – February 17, 2012) was a German-American psychologist, Cornell University professor, and member of the US National Academy of Sciences. He has been referred to as the "father of cognitive psychology". Neisser researched and wrote about perception and memory. He posited that a person's mental processes could be measured and subsequently analyzed. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ulric Neisser is the 147th most popular psychologist (down from 122nd in 2019), the 2,670th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,916th in 2019) and the 18th most popular German Psychologist.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Ulric Neisser ranks 147 out of 235. Before him are J. P. Guilford, Serge Moscovici, Edvard Moser, Brian Weiss, Roberto Assagioli, and Léopold Szondi. After him are George Kelly, Françoise Dolto, David Ausubel, Kurt Goldstein, Robert D. Hare, and Arthur Janov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Ulric Neisser ranks 197. Before him are Shulamit Aloni, Cy Young, Ethel Kennedy, Pavel Kohout, Laurence Harvey, and Fred Rogers. After him are Peter Hans Kolvenbach, Steingrímur Hermannsson, Bella Darvi, Aleksey Batalov, Line Renaud, and Mohammad Beheshti. Among people deceased in 2012, Ulric Neisser ranks 142. Before him are Besse Cooper, Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, Iajuddin Ahmed, David Kelly, Andy Williams, and Marcos Alonso. After him are William Thurston, Sixten Jernberg, Celeste Holm, Bohdan Stupka, Anita Björk, and Jack Klugman.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ulric Neisser ranks 2,671 out of 7,253. Before him are Princess Christine of Hesse-Rotenburg (1717), Albert II, Duke of Saxony (1250), Grand Duchess Maria Kirillovna of Russia (1907), Christian Otto Mohr (1835), Ernest Casimir I, Count of Nassau-Dietz (1573), and Heinz Hoffmann (1910). After him are Princess Marie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1850), Gerhard Gentzen (1909), Martin Gottfried Weiss (1905), Bogislaw XIV, Duke of Pomerania (1580), Fritz Busch (1890), and Alexander Braun (1805).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Germany

Among psychologists born in Germany, Ulric Neisser ranks 18. Before him are Karl Abraham (1877), Ernst Kretschmer (1888), Rudolf Arnheim (1904), Adolf Bastian (1826), Marie-Louise von Franz (1915), and Charlotte Bühler (1893). After him are Johannes Heinrich Schultz (1884), Frieda Fromm-Reichmann (1889), Laura Perls (1905), Uta Frith (1941), and Hans-Werner Gessmann (1950).

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