BINET, ALFRED (1857-1911), French experimental psy chologist, was born in Nice, on July 8, 1857. At an early age he went to Paris and entered the Lycee Saint-Louis from which he graduated in 1878. In 1890 he took a degree in natural science at the Sorbonne and received his D. Sc. in 1894. The laboratory of psychology and physiology was created at the Sorbonne in 1889 and three years later Binet was invited to join its staff as assis tant to M. Beaunis. Upon the retirement of Beaunis in 1894, Binet became director. With Beaunis and Ribot he began in 1895 to publish the Journal L'Annee psychologique. This journal, un der Binet's leadership, expressed the French movement in psychol ogy. His inclination for varied psychological problems soon drew him towards the study of hypnotism and while working in this field he published with Fere, Le snagnetisme animal and Les alterations de la personalite. His name, however, is most gener ally connected with his researches on human intelligence and more specifically with his scales and tests to measure intelligence. These tests, first published in connection with his Etude Experi mentale de l'intelligence (1905-08), have had wide usage. He made extensive investigations in other psychological fields and the list of his publications is large. Among his works are : Intro duction a la psychologie experimentale, with Philippe, Courtier and V. Henri (1894) ; La fatigue intellectuelle, with V. Henri (1898) ; La suggestibilite (19oo) ; L'ame et le corps (1905) ; Les enfants anormaux, with Simon (1907). He died in Paris, on Oct. 18, 1911. (For Binet Scale see EDUCATION.) See R. Martin, Alfred Binet (Paris, 1925).