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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.
Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt. Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt (1832â1920) is known to posterity as the âfather of experimental psychologyâ and the founder of the first psychology laboratory (Boring 1950: 317, 322, 344â5), whence he exerted enormous influence on the development of psychology as a discipline, especially in the United States. Reserved and shy in public (cf.