Famous People with Name Burr

Burr Folks            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Burr Folks: was an American canoer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1936 he finished tenth in the folding K-1 10000 m event while being eliminated in the heats of the K-2 1000 m event.

Burr W. Jones            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Burr W. Jones: was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Wisconsin from 1883 - 1885. He was a Democrat.

Burrhus Frederic Skinner            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Burrhus Frederic Skinner: was an influential American psychologist, author, inventor, advocate for social reform and poet. 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, 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. 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.

Burrill Bernard Crohn            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Burrill Bernard Crohn: was an American gastroenterologist and one of the first to describe the disease of which he is the namesake, Crohn's disease.In 1932, Dr. Crohn and his two colleagues, Dr. Leon Ginzburg and Dr. Gordon D. Oppenheimer, published an important paper describin

Burry Stander            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Burry Stander: is the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup under-23 men's cross-country 2009 world champion. He is third overall in the World Cup standings behind multiple Olympic and World Champion, Julien Absalon (FRA) and José Hermida (ESP).[1] In the 2008 Olympic Summer Game