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