Later the ancient Egyptians wore copper jewelry as a status symbol and to ward off evil spirits. Now Tiffany & Co. is trumpeting that, in honor of its 175th anniversary, modern-day alchemists have made a new precious metal to adorn the wrists, fingers and necks of its wealthy clientele.
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.
american psychologist who is widely regarded as the founder of behaviorism he had expressed his behaviorist leanings privately as early as 1904 to angell and publicly as early as 1908 in a colloquium both to negative reactions in 1913 he was invited to give a series of lectures at columbia university in new york