1895
Joseph Banks Rhine, American botanist and parapsychologist (died 1980)
Joseph Banks Rhine, American botanist and parapsychologist (died 1980)
Joseph Banks Rhine, American botanist and parapsychologist (died 1980)
Joseph Banks Rhine
American botanist and founder of parapsychology
- Born
- 1895
Joseph Banks Rhine, usually known as J. B. Rhine, was an American botanist who founded parapsychology as a branch of psychology, founding the parapsychology lab at Duke University, the Journal of Parapsychology, the Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man, and the Parapsychological Association. Rhine wrote the books Extrasensory Perception and Parapsychology: Frontier Science of the Mind.