Word: terman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Dr. Lewis Madison Terman, 79, longtime Stanford University psychologist, who developed the widely used Stanford-Binet IQ test in 1916, followed up his work with a 30-year study of 1,400 California schoolchildren with IQs past the threshold of genius (140-plus); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Palo Alto, Calif. Tester Terman's findings: his bright children grew up healthier, slightly wealthier and better employed than the average child, but the group contained "no mathematician of truly first rank, no university president . . . gives no promise of contributing any Aristotles, Newtons, Tolstoys ... In achieving eminence, much depends...
...from Deep Springs. The son of a Kansas City lawyer, Kimpton started out as a Stanford undergraduate with the idea of becoming a psychologist. But when he found out more about the subject ("Intelligence?" famed Psychologist Lewis Terman once said to him. "Why, that's what the Stanford-Binet test tests"), Kimpton turned to philosophy and took his PhD. at Cornell...