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JOSEPH BANKS RHINE (1895-1980) was an American botanist who was the founder of the parapsychology lab at Duke University, the Journal of Parapsychology, the Foundation for Research on the Nature of...voir plusJOSEPH BANKS RHINE (1895-1980) was an American botanist who was the founder of the parapsychology lab at Duke University, the Journal of Parapsychology, the Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man, and the Parapsychological Association. Born in Waterloo, Juniata County, Pennsylvania, his family moved to Marshallville, Ohio when Rhine was in his early teens. He attended Ohio Northern University and the College of Wooster, and enlisted in the Marine Corps during WWI. He then enrolled at the University of Chicago, receiving his master’s degree in botany in 1923 and a Ph.D. in botany in 1925. A lecture given by Arthur Conan Doyle in May 1922, exulting the scientific proof of communication with the dead, inspired Rhine to study psychology at Harvard University for a year. He then moved to Duke University in Durham, North Carolina in 1927, where he began the studies that helped develop parapsychology into a branch of psychology. He died in 1980, aged 84.
JOSEPH GAITHER PRATT (1910-1979) was an American psychologist who specialized in the field of parapsychology. Among his research interests were ESP, psychokinesis, mediumship and poltergeists. Much of Pratt’s research was conducted while he was associated with J. B. Rhine’s Parapsychology Laboratory at Duke University (1932-1964). He also conducted research while associated with Columbia University (1935-1937) and the University of Virginia (1964-1975). Pratt was co-experimenter in the Pearce-Pratt and Pratt-Woodruff tests that are considered by some parapsychologists to have provided evidence for psi. Born in North Carolina, he received his B.A. from Trinity College in 1931. He then entered Duke’s Department of Psychology, graduating with a M.A. in 1933 and a Ph.D. in 1936. He was President of the Parapsychological Association in 1960, and was awarded the Parapsychology Laboratory’s McDougall award for research with Pavel Štěpánek in 1970. He died in 1979, aged 69.voir moins
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