| LC control no. | n 50014434 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Wissler, Clark, 1870-1947 |
| Birth date | 1870-09-18 |
| Death date | 1947-08-25 |
| Place of birth | Cambridge City (Ind.) |
| Place of death | New York (N.Y.) |
| Field of activity | Psychology Anthropology Ethnology Eugenics College teaching |
| Affiliation | Columbia University Yale University American Museum of Natural History |
| Profession or occupation | Psychologists Anthropologists Ethnologists College teachers |
| Found in | The hard palate in normal and feeble-minded individuals, 1908: t.p. (Clark Wissler, Ph.D.) His The correlation of mental and physical tests, 1901. WBIS, July 2, 2014: (Wissler, Clark, b.1870, d. 1947) Mythology of the Blackfoot Indians, 1908, 2007: title page (Clark Wissler, compiler) Wikipedia, via WWW, December 1, 2021 (Clark David Wissler was an American anthropologist, ethnologist, and archaeologist; born in Cambridge City, Indiana, on September 18, 1870; received a BA in experimental psychology from the University of Indiana in 1897 and a MA in 1899; received his doctorate in psychology from Columbia University in 1901; after teaching at Columbia, 1903-1909, he left the field of psychology to focus on anthropology; in 1902 bcame an assistant in ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History, eventually becoming curator of anthropology at the museum in 1907; taught at Yale University both as a psychological researcher and an anthropology professor, 1924-1941; also was actively involved in the American eugenics movement; died in New York City on August 25, 1947) |
| Associated language | eng |
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