# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lewis-terman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:37:10.506Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/lewis-terman"
name: "Lewis Terman"
slug: "lewis-terman"
description: "Lewis Madison Terman was an American psychologist, academic, and proponent of eugenics. He was noted as a pioneer in educational psychology in the early 20th century at the Stanford School of Education. Terman is best known for his revision of the Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scales and for initiating the longitudinal study of children with high IQs called the Genetic Studies of Genius. As a prominent eugenicist, he was a member of the Human Betterment Foundation, the American Eugenics Society, and the Eugenics Research Association, believing in genetic racial associations with intelligence. Terman also served as president of the American Psychological Association. A Review of General Psychology survey published in 2002 ranked Terman as the 72nd most cited psychologist of the 20th century, in a tie with G. Stanley Hall."
tagline: "American educational psychologist and academic (1877–1956)"
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country:
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birthDate: "1877-01-15"
deathDate: "1956-12-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump