Burrhus Frederic Skinner (1904-1990). A thank-you

Abstract

B.F. Skinner, preeminent American psychologist, who studied human and animal behavior through ingenious experiments and hoped his findings would foster creativity and lessen repression, died Saturday at Mont Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Mass. He was 86 years old and lived in Cambridge.

The above is the first paragraph of a comprehensive summary of the life and works of Burrhus Frederic Skinner as printed in the death section of The New York Times on Monday, August 20, this year. The entire article constitutes an excellent biographical treatment of Fred Skinner's life, from his early days in the small railroad town of Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, to his last appearance before his friends and colleagues at the Boston meeting of the American Psychological Association, eight days before his death.