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Wilhelm Wundt opens first experimental laboratory in psychology at the University of Leipzig, Germany. Credited with establishing psychology as an academic discipline, Wundt's students include Emil Kraepelin, James McKeen Cattell, and G. Stanley Hall.
Quick Answer. Wilhelm Wundt is often considered the founder of experimental psychology; he contributed to psychology by teaching the first-ever physiological psychology course in 1862, as well as publishing Principles of Physiological Psychology, the first book to establish psychology as its own field.