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Uta Frith

1941 - Today

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Dame Uta Frith (née Aurnhammer; born 25 May 1941) is a German-British developmental psychologist and emeritus professor in cognitive development at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London (UCL). She pioneered much of the current research into autism and dyslexia. Her book Autism: Explaining the Enigma introduced the cognitive neuroscience of autism. She is credited with creating the Sally–Anne test along with fellow scientists Alan Leslie and Simon Baron-Cohen. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Uta Frith is the 221st most popular psychologist (up from 222nd in 2019), the 5,258th most popular biography from Germany (down from 5,198th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular German Psychologist.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Uta Frith ranks 222 out of 235Before her are Christina Maslach, Robert Yerkes, Judith Rich Harris, Elsa Cayat, David Buss, Simon Baron-Cohen, and August Dvorak. After her are Elizabeth Holloway Marston, Jonathan Kellerman, Joseph Nicolosi, Sherry Turkle, and Christine Ladd-Franklin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Uta Frith ranks 536Before her are Wolfgang Fahrian, James Joseph Dresnok, David Selby, John Nicholson, Dan Coe, and Elías Muñoz. After her are Graciela Borges, Luigi Ferrando, Irina Petrescu, Viktor Putyatin, Ulf Sterner, and Helga Niessen Masthoff.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Uta Frith ranks 5,261 out of 7,253Before her are Felix Brych (1975), Ludwig Carl Christian Koch (1825), Oswald Karch (1917), Heinrich Kuhl (1797), Allison Mack (1982), and Benno von Arent (1898). After her are Bernhard Germeshausen (1951), Tim Borowski (1980), Karim Adeyemi (2002), Holger Hieronymus (1959), Wolfgang Güldenpfennig (1951), and Hans Deppe (1897).

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Germany

Among psychologists born in Germany, Uta Frith ranks 22Before her are Marie-Louise von Franz (1915), Charlotte Bühler (1893), Ulric Neisser (1928), Johannes Heinrich Schultz (1884), Frieda Fromm-Reichmann (1889), and Laura Perls (1905). After her are Hans-Werner Gessmann (1950).