Harry L. Hollingworth

(1880-1956) born at DeWitt, Saline County, lived in Lincoln. Psychologist, educator, author, recognized as one of the pioneers of applied psychology, enhanced by his research of caffeine, gum chewing, and shell shock to explain a number of behavioral effects, taught from 1909 to 1946 at Barnard College, guiding more than 30 undergraduate women into psychological careers, authored 25 books and monographs and over 110 articles, papers and book reviews. Consult New York Times obituary, September 18, 1956, p. 35 and American Journal of Psychology, Vol 70 (1957) 136-140 and American National Biography, Vol 11 (1999) 66-67 and Nebraska History, Vol 81 (Summer 2000) 67-73.

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