# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-wechsler
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:29:06.490Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/david-wechsler"
name: "David Wechsler"
slug: "david-wechsler"
description: "David \"Weshy\" Wechsler was a Romanian-American psychologist. He developed well-known intelligence scales, such as the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) to get to know his patients at Bellevue Hospital. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Wechsler as the 51st most cited psychologist of the 20th century."
tagline: "American psychologist and academic (1896–1981)"
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country:
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birthDate: "1896-01-12"
deathDate: "1981-05-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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  country:  null
  category: 247
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump