Frank Angell was an early American psychologist. The nephew of University of Vermont

University of Vermont

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 and University of Michigan

University of Michigan

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 president, James Burrill Angell

James Burrill Angell

James Burrill Angell was an American educator, academic administrator, and diplomat. He is best known for being the longest-serving president of the University of Michigan . Under his leadership Michigan gained prominence as an elite public university...

 and cousin of University of Chicago

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 psychologist and Yale University

Yale University

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 president James Rowland Angell

James Rowland Angell

James Rowland Angell was an American psychologist and educator. He served as the president of Yale University between 1921 and 1937...

, Frank Angell earn his PhD in the Leipzig

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 laboratory of Wilhelm Wundt

Wilhelm Wundt

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. He then founded the experimental psychology laboratories at Cornell University

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 (1891) and Stanford University

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 (1892). He remained at Stanford for the rest of his career, working primarily on psychophysics

Psychophysics

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and as director of athletics (service for which a track stadium at Stanford was named after him).