James McKeen Cattell (1860-1944)
James McKeen Cattell was born on May 24, 1860, in Easton, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Lafayette College, of which his father was president. In 1880., he studied for two years in Germany, spent one year as a fellow at Johns Hopkins University, then studied under Wilhelm Wundt at Leipzig University, where he obtained his doctorate in 1886. During the next two years, he divided his time between teaching at Bryn Mawr College and the University of Pennsylvania, and working at Sir Francis Galton’s laboratory in London. In 1888, Cattell was appointed to the world’s first professorship in psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1891, he became professor of psychology at Columbia Univer-