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Margaret Floy Washburn: Great And Influential Psychologist

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Margaret Floy Washburn There have been many great and influential psychologists. Many of them have made psychology what it is today. Margaret Floy Washburn was one of those people who Washburn was famous for being the first woman to earn a PH.D. in psychology, she got her degree in 1894 (Bumb). After getting her degree, she preceded to teach as a professor at Vassar College for 36 years. In that time period you could not work as a teacher or professor in a co-educational setting if you were married, so in order to do what she loved she never married. Later on, in 1921, she was named the APA (American Psychological Association) President. She was only the second female APA President, the first woman being Mary Whiton Calkins (apa.org). Washburn
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