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BIOLOGIST

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Banks Rhine has received more than 284,082 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Joseph Banks Rhine is the 563rd most popular biologist (down from 550th in 2019), the 5,378th most popular biography from United States and the 81st most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Joseph Banks Rhine ranks 563 out of 841. Before him are Richard Lewontin, Janaki Ammal, Anne McLaren, Ludwik Hirszfeld, Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem, and Carl Alexander Clerck. After him are Franz Meyen, Tomitaro Makino, Frederic Clements, Francis Collins, Gustav Radde, and Achille Richard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Joseph Banks Rhine ranks 182. Before him are Georg Muche, Giovanni Brunero, Gabriel Chevallier, José Díaz, Julijans Vaivods, and Louis Calhern. After him are John J. McCloy, Carl Westergren, Max Valier, Frank Foss, Edmund Wilson, and Fredric Wertham. Among people deceased in 1980, Joseph Banks Rhine ranks 172. Before him are Aleksander Ford, Rostislav Alexeyev, Simonne Mathieu, André Parrot, Arend Heyting, and George Pal. After him are Vasja Pirc, Sanjay Gandhi, Rafael Paasio, Petar Trifunović, Philip Guston, and Wilhelmina Cooper.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joseph Banks Rhine ranks 5,378 out of 18,182. Before him are Louis Calhern (1895), Don Murray (1929), Darlanne Fluegel (1953), Adam Lambert (1982), Al Corley (1956), and Edward M. House (1858). After him are Peter Krause (1965), Ford Sterling (1883), Ethel Waters (1896), Madison Grant (1865), Burt Rutan (1943), and John Hawkes (1959).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Joseph Banks Rhine ranks 81. Before him are Arthur Cronquist (1919), George C. Williams (1926), Robert Sapolsky (1957), Mary Agnes Chase (1869), Paul R. Ehrlich (1932), and Richard Lewontin (1929). After him are Frederic Clements (1874), Francis Collins (1950), Alfred Sturtevant (1891), Asa Gray (1810), Gerrit Smith Miller (1869), and Thomas Say (1787).

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