Sidebar
A survey of programs and centers for gifted and talented education listed 24 psychologists among the 53 most influential people in gifted education. Published in Gifted Child Today (Vol. 25, No. 4), the list includes Robert J. Sternberg, PhD, APA president, and Rena Subotnik, PhD, director of APA's Center for Psychology in Schools and Education. Here are other psychologists selected for their contributions to the field:
Benjamin Bloom, PhD
Jerome Bruner, PhD
Nick Colangelo, PhD
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, PhD
David Feldman, PhD
James Gallagher, PhD
John Gowan, PhD
Leta Hollingworth, PhD
Barbara Kerr, PhD
Ruth Martinson, PhD
Sally Reis, PhD
Joseph Renzulli, EdD
Sylvia Rimm, PhD
Halbert Robinson, PhD
Nancy Robinson, PhD
Bruce Shore, PhD
Julian Stanley, PhD
Abraham Tannenbaum, PhD
Lewis Terman, PhD
E. Paul Torrance, PhD
James Webb, PhD
Paul Witty, PhD
--M. GREENGRASS
