Alfred Binet

Alfred Binet (born July 8, 1857, Nice, France—died October 18, 1911, Paris) was a French psychologist who played a dominant role in the development of experimental psychology in France and who made fundamental contributions to the measurement of intelligence. Fascinated by the work of the neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot on hypnosis at the Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, Binet abandoned a law career in 1878 to devote himself to medico-scientific studies at the hospital, at which he remained...