Henri Piéron

Henri Piéron (1881 to 1964) was a French psychologist counted among the founders of scientific psychology in France. He held the chair of Physiology of Sensation at the Collège de France from 1923 to 1951 and developed the Toulouse-Piéron cancellation test with Édouard Toulouse. In 1928 he took part in the first Davos University Course alongside figures such as Albert Einstein and Hans Driesch, and in the same year he created the Institut national d'orientation professionnelle, which became the Institut national d'étude du travail et d'orientation professionnelle in 1942 and is now supported by the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers. After founding that first institute for careers he trained guidance counsellors and researched counselling psychology. He was president of the Société zoologique de France in 1946.