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Edith Weisskopf-Joelson was a psychologist and university professor. She received her doctorate in psychology from the University of Vienna in 1937, but in 1938 fled Austria to escape Nazi rule and emigrated to the United States in 1939. She taught at Purdue University, St. Mary-in-the-Woods College, Duke University, and the University of Georgia.