| A | B |
| Donald Treffinger | Mess finding, creative problem solving |
| Leta Hollingworth | examined the role of women in society |
| Passow | Total Talent Plan, capacity for socially valuable human endeavor |
| Feldman | researched childhood prodigies |
| Carol Schlichter | Talents Unlimited |
| A.J. Tannenbaum | Enrichment Matrix Model |
| Francois Gagne | differentiates btw giftedness and talent |
| Alfred Binet | famous for mental testing, concerned with dev. and mental age |
| Paul Torrance | Test of Creative Thinking |
| Gardner | Multiple Intelligences |
| William James | 3 levels of knowledge- of, about, how |
| Cesare Lombroso | creative and insane have mental degeneration in common |
| Wechsler | dev. 2 well known intelligence scales, WAIS, WAIC |
| James A Kulik | studied impact of grouping, strategies with gifted, grouping is beneficial |
| Charles Spearman | two factor theory g and s |
| Jacob Javits | Senator fought for funding Gifted and Talented Students Education Act |
| Lewis Terman | Stanford Binet Longitudinal Study, formula for IQ |
| James J. Gallagher | 2 tails of same bell curve- mental retardation- giftedness, cognitive psychologist |
| Sandra Kaplan | The Grid |
| Jann Leppien | coauthor of the Multiple Menu Model and Parallel Curriculum |
| Robert Sternberg | 3 Facet Model, contemporary cognitive therorist |
| Carol Ann Tomlinson | UVA, Parallel Curriculum Model |
| John Feldhusen | Talent domains are societal creations & are thus culturally based |
| Sir Francis Galton | Hereditary Genius, eminient men, fingerprints |
| Csikzentmihalyi | The concept of flow in creativity, 3 part theory of giftedness |
| SP Marland | 1972 US Sec of Ed, DOE's def of giftedness |
| Renzulli | 3 Ring Conception of Gifted, Enrichment Triad Model, SEM, MMM |
| Witty | advocated broad concept of giftedness to incl. any child whose perf. in a valuable line of activity is considered remarkable |
| Dabrowski | overexcitablities, emotional dev. of GT |