Christine Ladd-Franklin was an American psychologist, logician and mathematician active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her Wikipedia lead offers only that bare description with no further detail, so this entry records only what can be honestly established; a fuller account of her specific contributions to psychology is a gap for a later depth pass to fill from her own writings and other biographical sources.
Facts
Nationality / Culture Defining ContributionDeveloped her own evolutionary theory of color vision after attending Hermann von Helmholtz's lectures on the theory of color vision in his laboratory. 1 Notable WorkColor and Color Theories (1929) 1 In the Other Atlases
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1. Wikipedia: Christine Ladd-Franklin
Wikimedia FoundationLead section
March 5, 1930
Early life and education section
Christine Ladd, sometimes known by the nickname "Kitty", was born on December 1, 1847, in Windsor, Connecticut, to Eliphalet, a merchant, and Augusta (née Niles) Ladd.
Biography section
She died of pneumonia on March 5, 1930, in New York, New York.
Theory of color vision section
In 1929 she published Color and Color Theories.
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