Frank Angell

For the American architect, see Frank W. Angell.
After the 1906 San Francisco earth­quake toppled Louis Agassiz's statue from the façade of Stanford's zoology building, Stanford President David Starr Jordan wrote that "Somebody—​​Dr. Angell, perhaps—​​remarked that 'Agassiz was great in the abstract but not in the concrete.'" [1]

Frank Angell (1857–1939) was an early American psychologist and the former athletic director at Stanford University.

Biography

Angell was born in 1857 in Scituate, Rhode Island. He graduated from the University of Vermont with an undergraduate degree in 1878. Angell spent several years teaching high school physics in Washington, DC.[2] He earned 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. A track stadium at Stanford was named after him.

He was the nephew of University of Michigan president James B. Angell, and cousin of Yale University president James R. Angell.[3]

References

  1. ↑ David Starr Jordan (1922). The Days of a Man: Being Memories of a Naturalist, Teacher, and Minor Prophet of Democracy. World book Company. p. 173.
  2. ↑ Terman, Lewis M. (January 1940). "Frank Angell: 1857-1939". American Journal of Psychology. 53 (1): 138. Retrieved February 27, 2014.
  3. ↑ Leroy Abrams; Lewis M. Terman; Robert E. Swain. "Memorial Resolution: Frank Angell" (PDF). Stanford Historical Society. Retrieved 10 June 2012.


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