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Born November 19, 1898 • Warwick • Rhode Island
Died September 16, 1977 (aged 78) • Cambridge • Massachusetts
Notable Works “The Varieties of Human Physique” • “The Varieties of Temperament”
Subjects Of Study ectomorph • endomorph • mesomorph • somatotype • delinquency • personality
Eleanor Glueck
American criminologist
Sheldon Glueck
American criminologist
Karen Horney
Karen Horney
German psychoanalyst
Raymond B. Cattell
American psychologist
Gordon Allport
American psychologist
Morton Prince
American psychologist
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud
Austrian psychoanalyst
Wilhelm Reich
Austrian psychologist
Wilhelm Wundt
Wilhelm Wundt
German physiologist and psychologist
E. Mavis Hetherington
Canadian-born developmental psychologist
Harry F. Harlow
American psychologist
John Money
American psychologist
Frank Jobe
American orthopedic surgeon
William Worrall Mayo
American physician
Charles Frederick Menninger
American physician
Charles Horace Mayo
American physician
William James Mayo
American physician
Charles William Mayo
American physician
Karl Augustus Menninger
American physician
William Claire Menninger
American physician