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Born: April 26, 1889, Died: May 27, 1932
Troland could justly claim – although he never asserted it – to have the greatest command of scientific knowledge of all of the psychologists of his generation. A graduate of MIT in 1912, he pursued the Ph.D. at Harvard under Münsterberg, where like his contemporary Tolman, he was drawn to the philosophers and to Holt, E. B. But Troland really blazed his own trail. After his doctorate, he spent his Sheldon traveling year at the General Electric’s laboratories in Nela Park in East Cleveland, Ohio. He returned to Harvard in 1916 as an instructor and was promoted to Assistant Professor in 1922, the highest academic rank he held. While working on the doctorate he completed, with Daniel Comstock of MIT, a précis of physical theory for scientists in other fields (Comstock and Troland 1917). He had amassed enough skill in color theory and vision science to be the 31st member of the American Optical Society (after the...
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Devonis, D.C. (2012). Troland, Leonard T.. In: Rieber, R.W. (eds) Encyclopedia of the History of Psychological Theories. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0463-8_123
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