Burrhus Frederic Skinner (March 20, 1904 - August 18 1990), was a highly influential American psychologist, author, inventor, advocate for social reform B. F. Skinner, (1948) Walden Two. The science of human behavior is used to eliminate poverty, sexual oppression, government as we know it, create a lifestyle without that such as war. and poet. B. F. Skinner, (1970) "On 'Having' A Poem" talks about the poem, its publication, and contains the poem and a reply to it as well. a_Poem.ram" target="_blank">Real Audio mp3 Ogg He was the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at _Harvard University from 1958 until his retirement in 1974. He invented the operant conditioning chamber, innovated his own philosophy of science called Radical Behaviorism, B. F. Skinner, About Behaviorism and founded his own school of experimental research psychology - the experimental analysis of behavior. His analysis of human behavior culminated in his work Verbal Behavior, which has recently seen enormous increase in interest experimentally and in applied settings. He discovered and advanced the rate of response as a dependent variable in psychological research. He invented the cumulative recorder to measure rate of responding as part of his highly influential work on schedules of reinforcement. B. F. Skinner, (1938) The Behavior of Organisms. C. B. Ferster & B. F. Skinner, (1957) Schedules of Reinforcement. In a recent survey, Skinner was listed as the most influential psychologist of the 20th century. He was a prolific author, publishing 21 books and 180 articles.