PSYCHOLOGIST

Walter Mischel

1930 - 2018

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Walter Mischel (German: [ˈvaltɐ ˈmɪʃl̩]; February 22, 1930 – September 12, 2018) was an Austrian-born American psychologist specializing in personality theory and social psychology. He was the Robert Johnston Niven Professor of Humane Letters in the Department of Psychology at Columbia University. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Mischel as the 25th most cited psychologist of the 20th century. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Walter Mischel is the 162nd most popular psychologist (down from 147th in 2019), the 623rd most popular biography from Austria (down from 540th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Austrian Psychologist.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Walter Mischel ranks 162 out of 235. Before him are Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, Jacques-Alain Miller, Victor Skumin, Aleksei N. Leontiev, James J. Gibson, and Stanley Schachter. After him are Brenda Milner, Harry Harlow, Arnold Gesell, Henri Nouwen, Emma Eckstein, and Rensis Likert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Walter Mischel ranks 242. Before him are Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou, Ross Perot, Liliana Segre, Stanley Myers, Salvatore De Giorgi, and Elza Soares. After him are Viktor Tsybulenko, Gholamreza Takhti, Robert H. MacArthur, Lazar Berman, Miodrag Bulatović, and Frunzik Mkrtchyan. Among people deceased in 2018, Walter Mischel ranks 178. Before him are Robert Indiana, Zhores Medvedev, Moshé Mizrahi, Károly Palotai, Choi Eun-hee, and Tessa Jowell. After him are Henri Namphy, Tommy Lawrence, M. Karunanidhi, Roger Bannister, Lydia Clarke, and Edgar Hilsenrath.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Walter Mischel ranks 623 out of 1,424. Before him are Hanns Hörbiger (1867), Karl Michael Ziehrer (1843), Felix Mottl (1856), Ottokar III of Styria (1129), László Almásy (1895), and Karl Markovics (1963). After him are István Friedrich (1883), Herbert Prohaska (1955), Catherine of Austria, Duchess of Calabria (1295), Hilda Geiringer (1893), Rudolf Vytlačil (1912), and Toni Polster (1964).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Austria

Among psychologists born in Austria, Walter Mischel ranks 12. Before him are Otto Rank (1884), Paul Watzlawick (1921), Otto Gross (1877), Heinz Kohut (1913), René Spitz (1887), and Otto F. Kernberg (1928). After him are Emma Eckstein (1865), Fritz Heider (1896), Karl H. Pribram (1919), and Marie Jahoda (1907).

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