Frank Angell (July 8, 1857 – November 2, 1939) was an early American psychologist and the former athletic director at Stanford University.

Biography

Angell was born in 1857 in

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. He graduated from the

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with an undergraduate degree in 1878. Angell spent several years teaching high school physics in

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. He earned his PhD in the

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laboratory of Wilhelm Wundt. He then founded the experimental psychology laboratories at

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(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

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president James B. Angell, and cousin of

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president James R. Angell. Angell in 1891 married Louise Lee Bayard (died 1944), daughter of Secretary of State

Thomas F. Bayard Thomas Francis Bayard (October 29, 1828 – September 28, 1898) was an American lawyer, politician and diplomat from Wilmington, Delaware. A Democrat, he served three terms as United States Senator from Delaware and made three unsuccessful bids ...

. Mrs. Bayard entered into a Hollywood acting career in the 1920s after bearing three children: Charles (died 1949), Thomas Bayard Angell, and daughter Mabel.Evening Journal (Wilmington, Delaware), February 21, 1921, page 1

References

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