Divinity Atlas
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Archival research; genealogy 1
Hubert Pearce
What were Hubert Pearce's birth and death dates, and what became of him after the Duke experiments?
Open Hubert Pearce
Why It Is Open The parapsychological literature records his trial results to several decimal places and almost nothing about the man. This atlas could not verify a birth date, a death date, or any account of his later life from an accessible source, and records no dates at all rather than estimating them.
What Would Settle It Duke Divinity School enrolment and graduation records for the early 1930s, or the Rhine Research Center's own archive of laboratory correspondence, which would identify him well enough for ordinary genealogical work.
Expertise Needed Archival research; genealogy
Question posed in
A Review of the Pearce-Pratt Distance Series of ESP Tests, J. B. Rhine and J. G. Pratt.