Science · Philosophy · 1841–1931

Gustave Le Bon

French polymath and pioneer in the field of crowd psychology

Did you know?His most famous work, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, reportedly influenced both Theodore Roosevelt and Benito Mussolini.

Charles-Marie Gustave Le Bon (7 May 1841 – 13 December 1931) was a leading French polymath whose areas of interest included anthropology, psychology, sociology, medicine, invention, and physics.

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