James V. McConnell

James V. McConnell (1925–1990) was an animal psychologist best known for his 1950s–60s experiments suggesting that memory could be transferred between flatworms, a claim that made him briefly famous and lastingly controversial. His playful side ran the Worm Runner’s Digest, a humour magazine bound together with his serious journal, in which his occasional science-fiction stories appeared. A genuine eccentric of mid-century science.