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Hippocrates
Born on 460BC, died in 377BC
He started science as a Physician but is better known for his work in medicine and discovering symptoms of lung cancer, lung disease and cyanotic lung disease. -
Rene Descarte
Rene was born March 31st 1596 in Touraine, France - Died February 11th, 1650 in Stockholm Sweden
He came from France. His field of science was a mathnatician/philospher. His contribution to Psychology was that anything can be solved with reason, he didn't believe in or experiments. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_did_Descartes_contribute_to_psychology
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Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin was born on the 12th of Feb 1809 and died on the 19th of April 1882. Charles lived in England, and his scientific field was naturalist, medical education and geology. His theory was that all species of life descended overtime from a common ansector.
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Wilhelm Wundt
He lived from August 16th 1832- August 31st 1920. He was from Germany, his field of science was experimental Psychology and physiology. He was a psysician, psychologist, psysiologist, philiosopher, and proffesor.Founded the first of two experimental psychology labs. He was known for his work with structuralism,which includes describing the structures that compose the mind. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wundt
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William James
He was born on January 11th 1842 and died on August the 26th 1910. He was from America. His field of science was as a philosopher , a psychologist and a trained psysician, He wrote books on pragmatism, psychology, educational psychology, the psychology of religious experience and mysticism
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Sigmund Freud
Was born the 6th of May in 1856 and died in 1939. He studied medicine and as he did he worked on theories of the unconsious mind and repression, this lead to his major discovery of 'Psychoanalysis. -
John B. Watson
Lived from 1878-1958 and was South Carolina.ohn majored in psychology and minored in philosophy and neurologyat the University of Chicago. His main contribution to psychology was his theory of behaviour he saw psychology as the study of people's actions with the ability to predict and control these actions. He also had his theory that children only had three basic emotions fear, rage and love.
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Jean Piaget
Born 9 August 1896 in France. Died 16 September 1980.
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BF Skinner
Lived from March 20 1904-18 August 1990
He was from Susquehanna, Pennsylvaniaand his scientific interestsd and contributions were that he was an inventor and a psychologist had two books received numerous awards and honorary degrees.
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Aristotle
Born in North Greece in 384 BC and died in 322 BC.
He was trained first in medicine, and then in 367 he was sent to Athens to study philosophy with Plato.Aristotle is said to have written 150 philosophical treatises. The 30 that survive touch on an enormous range of philosophical problems, from biology and physics to morals to aesthetics to politics. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Aristotle.html