| | DHR: Academic Lineage |
 | | Dorothea Christiane Erxleben, who was the first woman in Germany -- and the 2nd in the entire world -- to be trained and granted the official title of medical doctor (in 1754 at the University of Halle). |
| | In the second half of the 19th century Johannes von Kries, a physiologist who was applying probability theory to the evaluation of the effectiveness of new drugs, realised that the computation of probability distributions depends on the classification of symptoms and pathologies into diseases. |
| | Confronted with a setting where the crucial uncertainty was the very definition of "events" by the experimenter, von Kries developed the logical foundations of a probability theory where the subjectivity of mental representations may impair the possibility of assigning numerical values to probabilities. |
| www.psy.cmu.edu /~rakison/rakison_lineage.htm (4730 words) |
