Marie Gertrude Rand Ferree was an American research scientist who is known for her extensive body of work about color perception.
17 Facts About Gertrude Rand
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In 1912, Rand received the Sarah Berliner Research Fellowship from the Association of Collegiate Alumnae which became the American Association of University Women.
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Gertrude Rand was the first female fellow of the Illuminating Engineering Society and received a Gold Medal award from that society in 1963.
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Gertrude Rand became member number 159, the second woman member of Optica.
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In 1959, Gertrude Rand joined Christine Ladd-Franklin, Charlotte Moore Sitterly, Dorothy Nickerson, Louise L Sloan, and Mary E Warga as the five women part of the first Optica Fellow class.
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Gertrude Rand was born on October 29,1886, in Brooklyn, New York.
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Gertrude Rand went on to receive her MA and PhD in psychology in 1911 from Bryn Mawr College.
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Gertrude Rand married her former supervisor, Ferree, in 1918, but retained her maiden name professionally.
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At Bryn Mawr, Gertrude Rand's research focused on developing techniques for measuring the light sensitivity and color discrimination of different parts of the retina.
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From 1924 to 1927, Gertrude Rand served on the National Research Council's Committee on Industrial Lighting.
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Gertrude Rand became the Director of the Research Laboratory of Physiological Optics in 1935.
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At Johns Hopkins, Gertrude Rand took on many projects, many involving industrial lighting.
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Gertrude Rand was the first female fellow of the Illuminating Society of North America in 1952 and received a gold medal from them in 1963.
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Gertrude Rand was a member of the American Psychological Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Gertrude Rand authored and co-authored over one hundred research papers in her career.
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Gertrude Rand received the Optical Society's Edgar D Tillyer Medal in 1959, the first woman to do so.
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Gertrude Rand was a member of the first class of OSA Fellows in 1959, one of only five of the 115 members included in this first class.