The Peace Prize went to the late BF Skinner, a U.S. psychologist. His study explored placing live pigeons in missiles to ...

The American psychologist B F Skinner did numerous experiments with pigeons, teaching them to play ping-pong, and even training them to operate a pigeon-guided missile in World War Two.

Pigeon-guided missiles ... honorees was the work of American psychologist and former Harvard professor B.F. Skinner, who is ...

B.F. Skinner of the University of Minnesota and then Harvard University worked on machines for animal learning. During World War II, he proposed to guide missiles to their targets using trained ...

Skinner (1904-1990), a well-known American psychologist, for what he himself called a “crackpot” project in 1960 to explore whether pigeons could be trained to guide missiles. Skinner trained ...