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Scientist or researcher

J.B. Rhine

1930-01-01year known, day not recorded

Botanist-turned-psychologist who founded scientific parapsychology at Duke University in the 1930s, coined the term "extrasensory perception," standardized card-guessing ESP experiments, and later created the Rhine Research Center. The scientific ancestor of nearly every later psi program, including the government remote-viewing effort.

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named on a page we have read · p. 7
…k place in the late 1920s at Duke University. At that time, J.B. Rhine and Louisa Rhine were brought in by William McDougall to st…
named on a page we have read · p. 1
…served as formal and informal consultant to such people as J.B. Rhine and his Institute in Durham, North Carolina (formerly Parap…
named on a page we have read · p. 2
…ieve, in this case, all bibliographic references which have J.B. Rhine as an author or co-author, and the letters "Psy..." in the…
named on a page transcribed in full · p. 20
…ed For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002600300001-0 J.B. RHINE'S OBSERVATIONS • Most subjects can do clairvoyance, te…

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  • Rhine Research Center names a source we do not hold
    founded it as the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory
    Rhine Research Center history
  • Parapsychological Association names a source we do not hold
    founding figure of the scientific field it represents
    Parapsychological Association records
  • Stargate Project names a source we do not hold
    the government RV program built on the scientific parapsychology he founded
    US government remote-viewing (Star Gate) program history
  • Society for Psychical Research names a source we do not hold
    his laboratory parapsychology grew from the psychical-research tradition it founded
    history of parapsychology