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02 Feb 1998
Haroun Tazieff |
death Haroun Tazieff Died 2 Feb 1998 at age 83 (born 11 May 1914). Polish-born French volcanologist whose fascination with volcanoes and knowledge of them, often obtained under extremely harrowing conditions, were enthusiastically shared by the French public through books and, especially, in films on television; he was considered one of the six most popular personalities in France... |
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02 Feb 1998
Raymond Cattell |
death Raymond Cattell Died 2 Feb 1998 at age 92 (born 20 Mar 1905). Raymond Bernard Cattell was an English-American psychologist who conducted research on individual differences in cognitive abilities, personality, and motivation. For his BSc degree, he studied physics and chemistry, but turned to physholocy for his PhD. Influenced by his undergraduate training in science, he applied mathematical techniques to the study of psychology, making the discipline more objective and quantitative. Cattell became one of the world's leading personality theorists, and developed many widely used psychological tests, of which the best known is the 16 Personality Factor (16PF) personality assessment. During his life, he wrote 55 books and over 500 research papers. |
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