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Also Known As Sir Cyril Lodowic Burt
Born March 3, 1883 • Stratford-upon-Avon • England
Died October 10, 1971 (aged 88) • London • England
Notable Works “The Factors of the Mind”
Subjects Of Study heredity • human intelligence • psychological testing • behaviour
L. L. Thurstone
American psychologist
Joy Paul Guilford
American psychologist
Francis Galton
Francis Galton
British scientist
Bateson, William
William Bateson
British biologist
James Ward
British philosopher and psychologist
George Frederick Stout
British philosopher and psychologist
Frederic Bartlett
British psychologist
Edward L. Thorndike
American psychologist
Clark L. Hull
American psychologist
Lewis Terman
Lewis Terman
American psychologist
James McKeen Cattell
James McKeen Cattell
American psychologist
Alfred Binet
Alfred Binet
French psychologist
David Wechsler
American psychologist
Robert M. Yerkes
American psychologist
Henri Tajfel
Polish-born British social psychologist
Karl Pearson
Karl Pearson
British mathematician
Geoffrey Hinton
Geoffrey Hinton
British-Canadian cognitive psychologist and computer scientist
Edith Rebecca Saunders
British botanist and geneticist
Muriel Wheldale Onslow
British biochemist
John Bowlby
British developmental psychologist and psychiatrist