During WWII, psychologist B F Skinner tried to use pigeons to guide missiles towards enemy ships. His study proved it was possible, and it was finally recognised at the 2024 Ig Nobel Prize awards.

Pigeon-guided missiles ... honorees was the work of American psychologist and former Harvard professor B.F. Skinner, who is being celebrated posthumously. His daughter, Julie Skinner Vargas ...

Professor Burrhus Frederic Skinner, a psychologist at the University of Minnesota in the US, received the posthumous gong for his work on Project Pigeon, where he was able to teach pigeons to ...

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 ...

During World War Two, psychologist B F Skinner tried to use pigeons to guide missiles towards enemy ships. His study proved it was possible, and it was finally recognised at the 2024 Ig Nobel ...