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In , the Review of General Psychology listed Milgram as the 46th most eminent psychologist of the 20th century. Stanley Milgram was an American social psychologist, researcher, and author. He is best known for his infamous obedience experiment. He was the second of three children born to Samuel and Adele Milgram, working-class Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe.

His father was a baker and his mother worked in the bakery. Samuel and Adele Milgram were hardworking people who impressed upon their children the importance of education and having a profession.

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The Milgram family lived in a neighbourhood that consisted primarily of Jewish immigrants. As a child, Milgram had very little interaction with, or knowledge about, the non-Jewish world. The year of his birth was also the year Adolf Hitler took control of Germany, and with the rise of Nazism, his parents became increasingly concerned about the welfare of their Jewish relatives in Europe.

Milgram witnessed their constant worry and as a boy, often huddled with them around the radio listening anxiously to news about the war that had broken out in Europe. The events in Europe had a significant impact on Milgram, who identified with the suffering of his fellow Jews at the hands of the Nazis.