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No one other than Charles Spearman exerted a stronger influence on the development of factor analysis than Louis Leon Thurstone. Here, I trace events in Thurstone’s life, from childhood in the United States and in Sweden, back again to high school in New York, an engineering degree at Cornell, his affiliation with Thomas A. Edison, an instructorship in engineering at Minnesota, and then becoming a psychologist with a PhD degree from The University of Chicago. He chaired a department at the Carnegie Institute of Technology before joining the faculty at Chicago, where he produced his major contributions to factor analysis, scaling, test theory, and other aspects of quantitative psychology. Following his faculty retirement from Chicago, he then founded a new psychometric laboratory at the University of North Carolina that still today remains an active center for research and graduate education.
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