One of this year’s Ig Nobel prizes was awarded posthumously to Burrhus F. Skinner (1904-1990), a well-known American psychologist, for what he himself called a “crackpot” project in 1960 to ...

B.F. Skinner, 86, died of leukemia last month in Cambridge, Mass. The noted behaviorist had received a lifetime achievement award two days earlier from the American Psychological Association at its ...

Professor Burrhus Frederic Skinner, a psychologist at the University of Minnesota in the US, received the posthumous gong for ...