# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/louis-leon-thurstone
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:16:40.183Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/louis-leon-thurstone"
name: "Louis Leon Thurstone"
slug: "louis-leon-thurstone"
description: "Louis Leon Thurstone was an American pioneer in the fields of psychometrics and psychophysics. He conceived the approach to measurement known as the law of comparative judgment, and is well known for his contributions to factor analysis. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Thurstone as the 88th most cited psychologist of the 20th century, tied with John Garcia, James J. Gibson, David Rumelhart, Margaret Floy Washburn, and Robert S. Woodworth."
tagline: "American psychologist & scholar (1887–1955)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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birthDate: "1887-05-29"
deathDate: "1955-09-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump