# Kurt Lewin

> He turned psychology outward - from the couch to the conference room, the factory floor, the committee meeting. Lewin made the group itself the subject, watching how people actually behave when they're together, not alone.

*German-American psychologist (1890-1947)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** Germany
- **Born:** 1890-09-09
- **Died:** 1947-02-12
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born in Prussia in 1890, Lewin trained in Berlin before fleeing to the United States as the Reich closed in. He landed at Cornell, then Iowa, then MIT, carrying a conviction that psychology shouldn't just describe the world but change it. His research focused on applied problems - how groups make decisions, how organizations evolve, how action and inquiry could fold into one process. The work earned him a reputation as the founder of social psychology and a place among the first to study group dynamics seriously. A 2002 survey ranked him the 18th-most cited psychologist of the twentieth century. He died in 1947, fourteen years after leaving Germany, having spent those years building the field from scratch.

## Fame
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## Topics
#Academics, #Academic, #Economics, #Psychology, #Germany, #Europe, #20th Century

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