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Joseph Banks Rhine

1895 - 1980

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Joseph Banks Rhine (September 29, 1895 – February 20, 1980), 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Banks Rhine is the 906th most popular biologist (down from 777th in 2019), the 7,955th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,232nd in 2019) and the 128th most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Joseph Banks Rhine ranks 906 out of 1,097. Before him are Otto Bütschli, Johannes Schmidt, Christian Friedrich Ecklon, Palisot de Beauvois, Sereno Watson, and Louis Fraser. After him are Joseph Barcroft, Keith Campbell, Carl H. Eigenmann, Stanley Norman Cohen, Jenny Clack, and Edward Newton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Joseph Banks Rhine ranks 248. Before him are Hertha Sponer, Carlos Manuel Piedra, Alberta Hunter, Nygmet Nurmakov, Katsutoshi Naito, and István Barta. After him are August Emil Fieldorf, Xiang Jingyu, Erwin Casmir, Juan Artola, Mamerto Urriolagoitía, and José María Peña. Among people deceased in 1980, Joseph Banks Rhine ranks 237. Before him are Uttam Kumar, Willi Forst, Nils Skoglund, Marin Preda, Adolph Deutsch, and Nikos Xilouris. After him are James Smith McDonnell, Muriel Freeman, Wilhelmina Cooper, Finn Ronne, Petar Trifunović, and Max Miedinger.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joseph Banks Rhine ranks 7,957 out of 20,380. Before him are Vikki Carr (1941), Adam Maida (1930), Theodore Robinson (1852), Dolph Schayes (1928), Virginia Grey (1917), and Larry Lieber (1931). After him are Rudy Rucker (1946), Elizabeth Hartman (1943), Anita Borg (1949), Tamina Snuka (1978), Grace Park (1974), and Tisha Campbell-Martin (1968).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Joseph Banks Rhine ranks 128. Before him are Wilfred Hudson Osgood (1875), Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858), Frederic Clements (1874), Benjamin Smith Barton (1766), Alfred G. Knudson (1922), and Sereno Watson (1826). After him are Stanley Norman Cohen (1935), Janet Rowley (1925), Barry Commoner (1917), Mary Katharine Brandegee (1844), Joanne Chory (1955), and Norman I. Platnick (1951).

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