Christine Ladd-Franklin

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Christine Ladd-Franklin (1 December 1847 - 5 March 1930) psychologist and logician was born in Windsor, Connecticut to Eliphalet Ladd and Augusta Niles. She was a Vassar graduate in 1869. After Vassar she taught science and mathematics in Washington, Pennsylvania at the secondary level until 1878. While teaching she contributed several articles on mathematics to Educational Times of Great Britain. In 1878 she began graduate work at Johns Hopkins University. In 1882 she earned a Ph.D. in logic and mathematics with her dissertation The Algebra of Logic but she was not awarded the Ph.D. until 1926. In psychology she was interested in vision particularly color vision and in 1929 she published Color and Color Theories. On 24 August 1882 she married Fabian Franklin, a Johns Hopkins mathematics professor. They had two children, a son who lived only a few days and a daughter Margaret who grew up and became a prominent member of the women's suffrage movement. Christine died in New York City.

[edit] References

"Ladd-Franklin, Christine" Notable American Women, Vol. 2, 4th ed., The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1975

Thomas C. Cadwallader and Joyce V. Cadwallader. "Christine Ladd-Franklin" Women in Psychology: A Bio-bibliographic Sourcebook. Ed. Agnes N. O'Connell and Nancy Felipe Russo, Greenwood Press, New York, 1990

[edit] External links

• http://www.hrvh.org/u?/vassar,238 The Christine Ladd-Franklin Diary 1866-1873