Frank Angell
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Frank Angell was a prominent early American psychologist. The nephew of University of Vermont and University of Michigan president, James Burris Angell and cousin of University of Chicago psychologist and Yale University president James Rowland Angell, Frank Angell earn his PhD in the Leipzig laboratory of Wilhelm Wundt. He then founded the experimental psychology laboratories at Cornell University (1891) and Stanford University (1892). He remained at Stanford for the rest of his career, working primarily on psychophysics and as director of athletics (service for which a track stadium at Stanford was named after him).
