Christine Ladd-Franklin

(1847- 1930)

Daughter of a wealthy merchant and the oldest of three children. She was very influenced by her mother and aunt who defended the rights of women. He studied for two years with the guys who were going to enter Harvard and were prepared in the Wesleyan Academy, after which he began at Vassar College (New York) in which educated women was graduating in 1869.

She worked as a teacher of mathematics and science, conducted several investigations and published several works related to mathematics. She focused her doctoral thesis on "the logic of algebra," though not official and did not grant him the title of doctor, if your research was published.

With her daughter Margaret became interested in color vision, and published their findings in 1887 in the American Joury to of Psychology which allowed him to get a doctorate in Arts and Letters.

She worked as an associate editor of the dictionary Baldwins philosophy and psychology, work performed until 1909 and as a professor at the University of Chicago. He never was admitted to the circle of experimental psychologists, but in 1926 the Johns Hopkins University gave a doctorate in recognition of his dissertation in 1882 for color vision and managed to publish these investigations.