Christine Ladd-Franklin – A Chronology 1847- December 1- Christine Ladd-Franklin is born to Elliphat andAugusta 
        Niles Ladd in Windsor Connecticut.
1859-1863- attended school at Portsmouth
1863-1865-studied Greek at Wesleyan Academy in Massachusetts and was the
            only female in that department.
1866-1867- attended Vassar, but could not return because of a lack of cash
1867- taught in Utica, NY while studying trigonometry, the piano, biology, and
    several foreign languages. She also published an English translation of
    Schiller’s “Des Madchens Klage,” in the Hartford Courant.
1868- back to Vassar to study language, physics and astronomy
1871- taught in Washington, Pennsylvania contributed to Mathematical
        Questions section of the London based Educational Times
1872- studied math at Harvard under W.E. Byerly and James Mills Pierce.
        By 1878 she had published several articles in The Analyst and The
        Educational Times
1878- applied to Johns Hopkins University, despite its men only rule.
1882- left Hopkins U. with out her Ph.D. although her dissertation had been
        written as well as three papers which were published in The American
        Journal of Math.
        August 24- married Fabian Franklin of Hopkins’ math department
1883- Her dissertation was published in “Studies in Logic by Members of the
        Johns Hopkins University.”
1887- awarded an LLD, an honorary degree from Vassar, and published her first
        paper dealing with vision. “A Method for the Experimental Determination
        of the Horopter” was a mathematical investigation of binocular vision.
1892- discussed her theory of color vision at the International Congress of
        Psychology in London
1902- as an associate editor for logic and psychology and helped publish the
        Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology
1915- she was granted a doctorate from Johns Hopkins University.
1928- Colour and Colour Theories was published. This was a compilation of the
        preceding thirty-seven years
1930- died of pneumonia at eighty-two in her home at 417 Riverside Drive in
        New York.  

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