ABSTRACT
Raymond Cattell was born in 1905 in Staffordshire, England. In 1924, he earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemistry from Kings College of the University of London. But then, as he wrote: 'On a cold and foggy London morning in 1924 he turned his back on the shining flasks and tubes of his well-equipped chemistry bench and walked over to Charles Spearman's laboratory to explore the promise of psychology, his broader reading having led him to see that psychology was the really new, challenging frontier of science, and the source of rational hopes for human progress'. His principal advisor in graduate work was Spearman, but he also studied with Cyril Burt. Cattell finished a PhD. in psychology in 1929. His dissertation topic was 'The Subjective Character of Cognition'. In 1939, the University of London awarded him the Doctor of Science (D. Sc.) degree.
