Louis Charles Henri Piéron (; 18 July 1881 – 6 November 1964) was a
French psychologist
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. He was one of the founders of scientific psychology in France. He developed the
Toulouse-Piéron Cancellation Test (TP) with
Édouard Toulouse.
Biography
Henri Piéron was Professor of Physiology of Sensation at the
Collège de France
The (), formerly known as the or as the ''Collège impérial'' founded in 1530 by François I, is a higher education and research establishment () in France. It is located in Paris near La Sorbonne. The has been considered to be France's most ...
from 1923 to 1951. He took part in the first
Davos University Course (a project to start an international university based in
Davos
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) in 1928, along with many other prominent academics such as
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein (14 March 187918 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who is best known for developing the theory of relativity. Einstein also made important contributions to quantum mechanics. His mass–energy equivalence f ...
and
Hans Driesch
Hans Adolf Eduard Driesch (28 October 1867 – 17 April 1941) was a German biologist and philosopher from Bad Kreuznach. He is most noted for his early experimental work in embryology and for his neo-vitalist philosophy of entelechy. He has also ...
. The same year, he created the ''Institut national d'orientation professionnelle'' (INOP), which became the ''Institut national d'étude du travail et d'orientation professionnelle''
Inetop in 1942, and is now supported by the
Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers
The (; ; abbr. CNAM) is an AMBA-accredited French ''grande école'' and '' grand établissement''. It is a member of the '' Conférence des Grandes écoles'', which is an equivalent to the Ivy League schools in the United States, Oxbridge in th ...
. After founding the first institute for "careers", he took charge of training guidance counsellors and conducted research into the field of counselling psychology. He became president of the
Société zoologique de France in 1946.
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1881 births
1964 deaths
Place of birth missing
Academic staff of the Collège de France
Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences
20th-century French psychologists
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