Dr. Cornelius Rhine
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| Role | Founder and chief spectrologist |
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Work at EsperCorp
Dr. Rhine is a well-known physicist and innovator. His ground-breaking discovery of the thymosphere has disrupted research, business, and previously held views on existence. Dr. Rhine has been interested in the effects of extrasensory events for decades. His landmark experiments ten years ago managed to connect to the thymosphere, and he made first contact with the creatures he termed Espers. Though his initial papers met strong opposition from the scientific community, who accused him of outlandish, unprofessional theorizing, Dr. Rhine’s intuition paid off. Dr. Rhine and the other scientists at EsperCorp have verified the experiments and proven the existence of Espers. Though the scientific community has yet to acknowledge its blunder and recognize Dr. Rhine’s seminal work, EsperCorp has taken the lead in researching the depths of the thymosphere, and feels that in time the world will be improved through their research.
Personal life
Cornelius Rhine was born, the fourth of five children, to a modest home in Eugene, Oregon. He and his wife Bella (now deceased) had one daughter, Cassandra, who lives and works with him at EsperCorp headquarters. Dr. Rhine's interest in Espers began early. When he was a boy, he wandered astray from a group hiking trip. As rain began to fall, young Cornelius fled into a crystal cave. A bolt of errant lightning struck the hanging crystals there, and he swore he saw a vaguely rat-like shape shimmer in the air -- the Esper that he would one day name Rattox. Ever since that day, Dr. Rhine has pursued his passion for spectrology.
