Harry Frederick Harlow was an American psychologist best known for his maternal-separation, dependency needs, and social isolation experiments on rhesus monkeys, which manifested the importance of car
Harlow, c. 1968
Monkey clinging to the cloth mother surrogate in fear test
Graves of Harlow and Margaret Kuenne at Forest Hill Cemetery
Harlow exclusively used rhesus macaques in his experiments.
Professor Pyg is a supervillain who appears in American comic books published by DC Comics, commonly as an adversary of the superhero Batman. Pyg was created by Grant Morrison, Andy Kubert, and Frank
Harry Harlow
…Morrison has cited Harry Harlow and his experiments as partial inspiration behind the creation (with Andy Kubert and Frazer Irving) of Batman villain Professor Pyg. Harlow, Harry (1958). "The nature of love". American Psychologist. 13 (12): 673–685. doi:10.1037/h0047884. S2CID 10722381…
Professor Pyg as he appears on the cover of Batman #62 (January 2019). Art by Mitch Gerads.
Professor Pyg's traditional pig mask was adapted into one more resembling the flesh of a pig that, according to Michael Cerveris, gave it a more disturbing and comedic quality.