The Biography of L.L. Thurstone
L.L. Thurstone
When speaking on the subject of psychometrics one psychologist comes to mind; L.L.
Thurstone. Throughout his life, Thurstone had many great accomplishments and awards. From his youth to his last living months, L.L. Thurstone had strived to answer the questions that came from that of the learning function and the properties it came with.
Thurstone was born Louis Leon ThunstrÖm on May 29th of 1887 in Chicago. He was the first child to his father, a Swedish army mathematics instructor and Lutheran minister, and to his mother who was passionate for music. Throughout Thurstone’s childhood he and his family suffered through the difficulty of having their name mispronounced and misspelled and thus the ThunstrÖm family changed their family name to Thurstone.
Thurstone’s educational career began in grade school in Berwyn Illinois, and it was at the age of eight that the Thurstone family migrated to Stockholm, Sweden where L.L. studied the swedish language in order to assimilate into this new environment presented to him. After many years in their native country, the Thurstone family decided to move back to the U.S.A, specifically Jamestown, New York in 1901. Moving from Stockholm, Sweden back to the U.S proved to be an issue, and Thurstone had to relearn the english language by having tutoring sessions with a school principal.
As a young child he earned his first award as a geometry contest winner. He won thirty dollars, and used that to buy objects that pertained to his hobbies. As a sophomore in high school he would then come to publish an article in the scientific journal the Scientific American on the
issue of water consumption and the energy being used by the power companies and tourists in the Niagara Falls area.
Continuing his educational career, after graduating high school Thurstone went on to pursue a Bachelor of Science in civil engineering at Cornell, but then later changed his major to electrical engineering. While pursuing his
When speaking on the subject of psychometrics one psychologist comes to mind; L.L.
Thurstone. Throughout his life, Thurstone had many great accomplishments and awards. From his youth to his last living months, L.L. Thurstone had strived to answer the questions that came from that of the learning function and the properties it came with.
Thurstone was born Louis Leon ThunstrÖm on May 29th of 1887 in Chicago. He was the first child to his father, a Swedish army mathematics instructor and Lutheran minister, and to his mother who was passionate for music. Throughout Thurstone’s childhood he and his family suffered through the difficulty of having their name mispronounced and misspelled and thus the ThunstrÖm family changed their family name to Thurstone.
Thurstone’s educational career began in grade school in Berwyn Illinois, and it was at the age of eight that the Thurstone family migrated to Stockholm, Sweden where L.L. studied the swedish language in order to assimilate into this new environment presented to him. After many years in their native country, the Thurstone family decided to move back to the U.S.A, specifically Jamestown, New York in 1901. Moving from Stockholm, Sweden back to the U.S proved to be an issue, and Thurstone had to relearn the english language by having tutoring sessions with a school principal.
As a young child he earned his first award as a geometry contest winner. He won thirty dollars, and used that to buy objects that pertained to his hobbies. As a sophomore in high school he would then come to publish an article in the scientific journal the Scientific American on the
issue of water consumption and the energy being used by the power companies and tourists in the Niagara Falls area.
Continuing his educational career, after graduating high school Thurstone went on to pursue a Bachelor of Science in civil engineering at Cornell, but then later changed his major to electrical engineering. While pursuing his