Christine Ladd-Franklin Born: December 1, 1847 in Windsor, CT Died: March 5, 1930 in New York, NY | |
Education Doctor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, Mathematics (degree not granted until 1926) A.B. (1869), Vassar College |
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Landmarks 1878 First woman to attend Johns Hopkins University (non-matriculate) 1882 First American woman to complete all the requirements for the Ph.D. in mathematics 1882 Left Johns Hopkins University without an official degree 1891 Vision research under Professor G.E. Müller in Gottingen, Germany Vision research under Hermann von Helmholtz 1892 Introduced her color vision theory to the International Congress of Psychology 1901 Associate editor for logic and philosophy in Baldwin's Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology 1904 Logic and philosophy instructor at Johns Hopkins University 1913 Instructor at Clark and Harvard Universities 1914 Instructor at the University of Chicago 1914 Instructor at Columbia University |
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Contributions Christine Franklin is best known for her contributions to color theory and symbolic logic. She compiled four decades of work in the field of color vision in her book Colour and Colour Theories . |
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Honors 1865 Graduated from Wesleyan Academy as valedictorian 1887 Honorary Doctor of Laws from Vassar College Ranked as one of 50 most important psychologists in American "Men of Science" |
Key Words: color vision, theory of color vision, symbolic logic |
Anna Freud Born: December 3, 1895 in Vienna, Austria Died: October 9, 1982 in London, England | |
Education Cottage Lyceum, Vienna (1912) |
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Landmarks 1922 Presented her paper, Beating Fantasies and Daydreams, to the Vienna Psychoanalytical Society 1923 Psychoanalytical private practice with children 1925 Child analysis instructor at the Vienna Psychoanalytical Training Institute 1927 General secretary of the International Psychoanalytical Association 1935 Director of the Vienna Psychoanalytical Training Institute March 14, 1938 Held prisoner in Gestapo headquarters June 5, 1938 Anna and Sigmund Freud flee Austria for London, Sigmund Freud's younger sisters were not allowed to leave and died in concentration camps |
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Contributions Anna Freud is best known for her contributions to defense mechanisms and ego psychology. She is regarded as the successor to Sigmund Freud and the psychoanalytic movement. |
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Honors 1950 Honorary doctorate from Clark University 1967 Honorary Order of the British Empire from Queen Elizabeth II 1972 Honorary Medical Doctorate from the University of Vienna 1973 Honorary president of the International Psychoanalytical Association 1980 Honorary doctorate from Harvard |
Key Words: psychoanalysis, ego psychology, self-psychology, defense mechanisms, child psychology, Sigmund Freud |