title: Truman Lee Kelley
text: # Truman Lee Kelley
  
  Truman Lee Kelley (1884 – 1961) was an American researcher who made seminal contributions to statistics and psychology.
  
  ## Life
  
  He was born in Whitehall, Muskegon County, Michigan in 1884. He died in 1961.
  
  ## Career
  
  He received his A.M. degree in psychology from the University of Illinois in 1911, where he became one of the four founding students of Kappa Delta Pi. He completed his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1914 under the supervision of Edward Thorndike. After doing so, he worked as an instructor at the University of Texas and at Teachers College, and then in 1920 became a professor at Stanford University. He moved to Harvard University in 1931, and retired in 1950.
  
  