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__Alfred Binet__ in 1906 was appointed to design a test to identify slow learners in the Paris school system so they could receive special instruction. Thus Binet and Simon launched the "psychometric", //psychological measurement//, tradition of research on intelligence. It was to measure mental age or mental functioning. (LHoward)

__Louis Terman__ revised Binet’s test many times and standardized it to a group of white middle class Americans. The result of the testing and study is the Stanford-Binet Intelligence test. It is a multi test approach to determing Intelligence. (LHoward)

__Leta Hollingsworth__: Her studies focused on children with IQs of 170 or above. Hollingsworth believed that children can have other types of gifted, such as mechanical aptitude or artistic ability.(LHoward)

__J. Guilford__: Studies of the structure of Intellect. As earlyas 1950, Guilford had urged psychologists to explore the area of creativity or divergent thinking, but it was his structural model of the 120 theoretical components of intelligence that led to the developmentof tests to measure intellectual abilities other than those measure by conventional IQ tests.(LHoward) **__Galileo Galilei__- Nonverbal abilities,** **astronomer, philosopher, and mathematician. Studied motion, astronomy, and the scientific method. Has been called the father of modern observational astronomy, father of modern physics, father of science, and father of modern science. Views went against the catholic church and was sentenced to house arrest.** **(M. Hill)**  __Joe Renzulli:__ Educational psychologist, research focuses on identification and development of creativity and giftedness in young people. (D.JLove)