Born November 19, 1898 Warwick, Rhode Island
Died September 17, 1977 Cambridge, Massachusetts
Occupation Psychologist and eugenicist
William Herbert Sheldon, Jr. (November 19, 1898 - September 17, 1977) was an American psychologist and numismatist. He created the field of somatotype and constitutional psychology that tried to correlate body types with behavior, intelligence and social hierarchy through his Ivy League nude posture photos.[1] His system of psychosomatotypology is the most widely used today.[2]