Hans Eysenck

Hans Eysenck (1916 to 1997) was a German-born British psychologist, best remembered for his work on intelligence and personality. Born in Berlin, he settled in England in the 1930s because of his opposition to the Nazi party and took his PhD at University College London in 1940 under Cyril Burt. From 1955 to 1983 he was professor of psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, and at his death he was the most frequently cited living psychologist in peer-reviewed journals. His claims that certain personality types carried a higher risk of cancer and heart disease, and his research on IQ scores and race, were a significant source of controversy. An enquiry for King's College London found the papers he co-wrote with Ronald Grossarth-Maticek incompatible with modern clinical science, and fourteen papers were retracted in 2020.