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. Christine is probably most known for her theory of color vision. And work with vision in general.

Christine Ladd Franklin Christine interest in this area began with a study of the horpoter in 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.

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.

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.