# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-banks-rhine
# Generated: 2026-08-15T22:13:56.015Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-banks-rhine"
name: "Joseph Banks Rhine"
slug: "joseph-banks-rhine"
description: "Joseph Banks Rhine, 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."
tagline: "American parapsychologist (1895-1980)"
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country:
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birthDate: "1895-09-29"
deathDate: "1980-02-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump