Dr. Joseph Banks Rhine
(September 29th, 1895 – February 20th, 1980)
Dr. Joseph Banks Rhine was a botanist and the father of parapsychology. He established the parapsychology lab at Duke University and founded journals and organizations of parapsychology. He coined the term extra-sensory perception (ESP) and was the first to systematically and experimentally explore ESP using the Zener cards (designed by his colleague Karl Zener) and later psychokinesis. He recorded remarkable results in his ESP experiments that would suggest that ESP is real. However, the results could never be replicated by other academic institutes. The results he achieved were likely a combination of sensory leakage and outright fraud by some of his staff and or subjects.
