B.F. Skinner

Burrhus Frederic Skinner was born on March 20, 1904 in Pennsylvania and died August 18 1990. He was an American phsycologist, author, inventor, advocate for social reform, and a poet. He was the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University from 1958 until his retirement in 1974. He was a prolific author who published 21 books and 180 articles.

He came up with the operant conditioning chamber, innovated his own philosophy of science called Radical Behaviorism, and founded his own school of experimental research psychology the experimental analysis of behavior. His major acomplishment was in his verbal behavior which has recently seen enormous increase in interest experimentally and in applied settings.