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2-6 Christine Ladd Franklin

2-6 Christine Ladd Franklin. Christine Ladd Franklin. Christine Ladd-Franklin was a Psychologist, a logician, a mathematician, physicist and astronomer She was born on December 1,1847in Windsor Connecticut.

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2-6 Christine Ladd Franklin

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  1. 2-6Christine Ladd Franklin

  2. Christine Ladd Franklin • Christine Ladd-Franklin was a Psychologist, a logician, a mathematician, physicist and astronomer • She was born on December 1,1847in Windsor Connecticut. • Christine is probably most known for her theory of color vision. And work with vision in general.

  3. Christine Ladd Franklin • Christine interest in this area began with a study of the horpoter in 1886. • She studied at John Hopkins University. • Christine Ladd published several papers in the American Journal of Mathematics, as well as books. • In 1929 she published Colour and Colour Theories, which featured articles and papers she had published throughout the past four decade.

  4. Christine Ladd Franklin • After completing the equivalent of her Ph.D., she requester a position lecturing at Johns Hopkins in 1893.When Ladd-Franklin was denied this position. • Finally in 1913 she stat lecturing at Clark University and Harvard University, and in 1914 at the University of Chicago. • Although she was only teaching one or two course, most of the these positions were a struggle to obtain and she often lectured without pay.

  5. Christine Ladd Franklin • Christine Ladd- Franklin’s remarkable achievements against the odds of her social position, opposition from universities and individual psychologists- have been remembered by historians of women psychologists. Too often however . Her deserved place in history of psychology textbooks, is forgotten.

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