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Alfred Binet: Stanford University
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Alfred Binet was born in Nice, France, in 1857. After studying both law and medicine in Paris, he earned a doctorate in natural science. Binet's psychological training—mostly at Jean-Martin Charcot's neurological clinic at the Salpetriere Hospital—was in the area of abnormal psychology, particularly hysteria, and he published books on hypnosis (Le magnetisme animal, with C.S. Fere in 1886) and suggestibility (La suggestibilite, 1900). From 1895 until his death in 1911, Binet served as director of France's first psychological laboratory at the Sorbonne of the University of Paris. Also in 1895, he established the journal L'Annee psychologique.
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Binet's wide range of interests in a number of different academic areas was demonstrated by his authorship of several articles for biology journals and his review of research findings from the field of histology, anatomy, and physiology. In 1895 Binet was invited to give a series of lectures at the University of Bucharest. Though offered a professorship, Binet declined the appointment to return to Paris. Although Binet was now considered to be the "fore-most, if not the only French experimental psychologist," he never received an appointment at a French institution of higher learning (Wolf, p. 22). Raymond Fancher believes this was due in part to Binet's lack of official credentials resulting from his self-trained status and lack of personal support from his instructors.
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Binet never attained a professorship in his own country, and did no teaching, with the exception of a spring course in psychology at the University of Bucharest in 1895. Here his knowledge in experimental psychology was fully appreciated as he taught to auditoriums filled to capacity, and was ... offered a chair in psychophysiology.
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Lewis M. Terman was responsible for making the Binet Scale a recognized and accepted professional tool. Terman adopted, then revised, and renormed the instrument several times at Stanford University (Terman, 1916; Terman & Merrill, 1937, 1960, 1973), and from the
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