Biography: Raymond Cattell (1905-1998)

Raymond Cattell was born in Staffordshire, England, on March 20, 1905. He earned his undergraduate degree in chemistry and his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of London in 1929. He taught college and worked in a psychological clinic in London until 1937.

In 1937, Cattell moved to the United States. He taught at Clark University and Harvard University before becoming, in 1944, the director of the Laboratory of Personality and Group Analysis at the University of Illinois.

Cattell was a prolific writer, having written more than 500 articles and 50 books. His important works include Description and Measurement of Personality (1946), Personality and Motivation: Structure and Measurement (1957), and Personality and Mood by Questionnaire (1973). Cattell developed the popular personality inventory, the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF).

In 1978, when he was in his 70s, he accepted a part-time position at the University of Hawaii. Cattell died on February 4, 1998 at the age of 92.

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