Jean Piaget
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Jean William Fritz Piaget was a Swiss psychologist known for his work on child development. Piaget's theory of cognitive development and epistemological view are together called genetic epistemology.
Bust of Piaget in the Parc des Bastions, Geneva
Piaget at Award ceremony of the Erasmus Prize, 1972, Amsterdam
Photo of the Jean Piaget Foundation with Pierre Bovet (1878–1965) first row (with large beard) and Jean Piaget (1896–1980) first row (on the right, with glasses) in front of the Rousseau Institute (Geneva), 1925
B. F. Skinner
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Burrhus Frederic Skinner was an American psychologist, behaviorist, inventor, and social philosopher. He was the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University from 1948 until his retireme
Jean Piaget
…then led to the emergence of the study of development as a major sub-discipline in psychology. By the end of the 20th century, he was second only to B. F. Skinner as the most-cited psychologist. Piaget was born in 1896 in Neuchâtel, in the Francophone region of Switzerland. He was the oldest son of Arthur Piaget…
Skinner c. 1950
The gravestone of B. F. Skinner and his wife Eve at Mount Auburn Cemetery
The teaching machine, a mechanical invention to automate the task of programmed learning