| Leon Keyserling | ... convince me that Government can spend a dollar that it's not got," he told | , a Keynesian economist who chaired Truman's Council of Economic Advisers |
| John Murray | ... g many other discoveries, catalogued over 4,000 previously unknown species. | , who supervised the publication, described the report as "the greatest ad ... |
| Lewis Carroll | ... such as "I Love Louie", where Desi lived with Louis Armstrong. He also read | 's poem "Jabberwocky" in a heavy Cuban accent (he pronounced it "Habberwoc ... |
| Slavoj Žižek | ... Ideological State Apparatuses has been of interest to Slovenian philosopher | ; the attempt to view history as a process without a subject garnered symp ... |
| Richard Owen | ... fragment of bone to his uncle, John Rule, a Sydney surgeon, who sent it to | who at that time was working at the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College ... |
| Aldous Huxley | ... Theatre. Until 1950, she also worked in the same theatre in other plays by | , Arthur Miller, Philip Jordan and André Roussin. She then moved to Paris, ... |
| Albert Einstein | ... time or lived in Halesite include comedian/singer Fanny Brice and scientist | |
| Talcott Parsons | ... pretations of his writings were produced by such sociological luminaries as | and C. Wright Mills. Parsons in particular imparted to Weber's works a fun ... |
| Bjarne Stroustrup | ... 8 for the discovery. In 1983, the C++ programming language was developed by | as an extension to the original C programming language also developed at B ... |
| Benjamin Zablocki | ... 1992 for "defamation, frauds, aiding and abetting and conspiracy" and lost. | and Alberto Amitrani interpreted the APA's response as meaning that there ... |
| Larry Sabato | ... d it "McCain's plan" and University of Virginia political science professor | said, "McCain owns Iraq just as much as Bush does now." The surge and the ... |
| Georges Cuvier | ... a prominent part of his version of Lamarckism leading to disagreements with | . It was widely supported in the Edinburgh and London schools of higher an ... |
| Hipparchus | ... oman world as a religious response to the discovery by the Greek astronomer | of the astronomical phenomenon of the precession of the equinoxes – a disc ... |
| Ronald J. Brachman | ... has been no small amount of inconsistency in the usage of the "is-a" link: | wrote a paper titled "What IS-A is and isn't", wherein 29 different semant ... |
| John Seward | ... as Arthur Holmwood, Christopher Lee as Mycroft Holmes, Richard E. Grant as | , and Harvey Keitel as |
| David Hume | Popper and | agreed that there is often a psychological belief that the sun will rise t ... |
| Henry Cavendish | ... lfuric acid. In 1776 Lavoisier showed that it contained oxygen, and in 1785 | determined its precise composition and showed that it could be synthesized ... |
| Abu 'Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham | ... ized as Alhazen: Alhazen ben Josef, who translated Ptolemy into Arabic; and | , who wrote about optics, mathematics and physics. Ibn al-Haytham is said ... |
| Henry Hazlitt | Austrian School economic commentator and journalist | 's The Failure of the New Economics is a paragraph-by-paragraph critique o ... |
| Francis Peyton Rous | ... e laureates were faculty members, five earned PhDs, eight earned M.D. while | and Martin Rodbell earned undergraduate degrees |
| Robert B. Laughlin | ... ct was discovered by Horst Störmer and former Bell Laboratories researchers | and Daniel C. Tsui; they consequently won a Nobel Prize in 1998 for the di ... |
| John Tooby | ... nary theories of Charles Darwin that were later substantially elaborated by | and Leda Cosmides. Central to evolutionary theory is that all biological o ... |
| Louis Pasteur | In 1849, | resolved a problem concerning the nature of tartaric acid. A solution of t ... |
| Alexander Parkes | ... lk material for forming objects was made in 1855 in Birmingham, England, by | , who was never able to see his invention reach full fruition, after his f ... |
| Ken Thompson | ... applies an extended regular expression syntax that was added to Unix after | 's original regular expression implementation. fgrep searches for any of a ... |
| Valerio Massimo Manfredi | ... ventors on the island of Ortygia near Syracuse. He is the main character in | 's novel Tyrant (2003). He is also featured in the 1962 film Damon and Pyt ... |
| Eudoxus of Cnidus | ... Babylonian star catalogs entered Greek astronomy in the 4th century BC, via | and others |
| Wilhelm Dilthey | ... imilar tradition as his German colleagues Werner Sombart, Georg Simmel, and | , who stressed the differences between the methodologies appropriate to th ... |
| John Tukey | ... e American Statistical Association, including notable statisticians such as | , condemned the sampling procedure. Tukey was perhaps the most vocal criti ... |
| Daniel C. Tsui | ... rst Störmer and former Bell Laboratories researchers Robert B. Laughlin and | ; they consequently won a Nobel Prize in 1998 for the discovery. In 1983, ... |
| Wernher von Braun | ... February 1, 1956 and commanded by Major General John B. Medaris with Doctor | |
| Leda Cosmides | ... f Charles Darwin that were later substantially elaborated by John Tooby and | . Central to evolutionary theory is that all biological organisms under ch ... |
| William James | Other thinkers who have formulated a two-stage model for free will include | , Henri Poincaré, Arthur Compton, Henry Margenau, and Daniel Dennett |
| Martin Rodbell | ... members, five earned PhDs, eight earned M.D. while Francis Peyton Rous and | earned undergraduate degrees |
| Johann Mattheson | ... 733 notes, "mi against fa", which the ancients called "Satan in music", and | in 1739 writes that the "older singers with solmization called this pleasa ... |
| Lewis Carroll | ... g nonsense words; a famous such example is "The gostak distims the doshes". | 's Jabberwocky is also famous for using this technique, although in this c ... |
| Lex Luthor | ... c (who murders Alexi Luthor of Earth-Two for trying to take leadership) and | to conquer the Earths, while the Anti-Monitor causes chaos on the Earths b ... |
| Pseudo-Geber | The first mention of nitric acid is in | ´s De Inventione Veritatis, wherein it is obtained by calcining a mixture ... |
| Henri Poincaré | ... who have formulated a two-stage model for free will include William James, | , Arthur Compton, Henry Margenau, and Daniel Dennett |
| Joseph Schumpeter | | was an economist of the same age as Keynes and one of his main rivals. He ... |
| Steven Pinker | ... are common in discussions of homosexuality, environmentalism and veganism. | has described two logical fallacies. "The naturalistic fallacy is the idea ... |
| Erna Schneider Hoover | ... em for computerized switching systems for telephone traffic was invented by | , who received one of the first software patents for it. In 1976, Fiber op ... |
| Diophantus | ... tion is unknown. Negative numbers were also used by the Greek mathematician | in about 275 CE, but were not widely accepted in Europe until the 16th cen ... |
| Georg Simmel | ... he belongs to a similar tradition as his German colleagues Werner Sombart, | , and Wilhelm Dilthey, who stressed the differences between the methodolog ... |
| Indiana Jones | Although some sources speculate that Andrews was the inspiration for | , neither George Lucas nor the other creators of the films have ever confi ... |
| Charles Darwin | ... tionary view of nationalism has its origins in the evolutionary theories of | that were later substantially elaborated by John Tooby and Leda Cosmides. ... |
| Plato | The structure of The Symposium and Phaedo, attributed to | , is of a story within a story within a story |
| Arthur Compton | ... ated a two-stage model for free will include William James, Henri Poincaré, | , Henry Margenau, and Daniel Dennett |
| Jing Fang | ... Han applied mathematics to various diverse disciplines. In musical tuning, | (78–37 BCE) realized that 53 perfect fifths was approximate to 31 octaves ... |
| W. E. B. Du Bois | ... were educated at Harvard during Eliot's tenure, including such notables as | (Class of 1890). Booker T. Washington was awarded an honorary degree by Ha ... |
| Charlotte Auerbach | ... a spontaneous variant arising in a colony of mice maintained by geneticist | . Histopathological studies in the 1960s revealed that the cerebellum of r ... |
| William Townsend Aiton | ... ds bookshop in Piccadilly, London. Wedgwood was chairman; also present were | (successor to his father, William Aiton, as Superintendent of Kew Gardens) ... |
| Guy Benton Johnson | | - Sociologist |
| Noah Webster | ... nnecticut themes include Nathan Hale, Eugene O'Neill, Josiah Willard Gibbs, | , Eli Whitney, the whaling ship the Charles W. Morgan which is docked in M ... |
| Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi | Two critical letters from external reviewers | and Jeffery D. Fisher accompanied the rejection memo. The letters criticiz ... |
| Johannes Phocylides Holwarda | :For the crater, see Phocylides (crater), which is named after | |
| Gregor Mendel | Agricultural science began with | 's genetic work, but in modern terms might be better dated from the chemic ... |
| Kim Campbell | ... r B. Pearson, who acted as Chancellor of Carleton University; Joe Clark and | , who became university professors, Clark also consultant and Campbell wor ... |
| Bertrand Russell | The philosopher | used the sentence "Quadruplicity drinks procrastination" to make a similar ... |
| A. Michael Noll | In 1970, | patented a tactile, force-feedback system, coupled with interactive stereo ... |
| Jonas Jablonskis | ... g nationalist sentiment that finally led to the lifting of the ban in 1904. | (1860–1930) made significant contributions to the formation of the standar ... |
| Henry Margenau | ... model for free will include William James, Henri Poincaré, Arthur Compton, | , and Daniel Dennett |
| Michel Foucault | ... cope. Much of this debate is related to the works of the French philosopher | (1926–1984), who, following the Italian political philosopher Niccolò Mach ... |
| Hipparchus | ... , three centuries after the discovery of the precession of the equinoxes by | around 130 BC, but he ignored the problem by dropping the concept of a fix ... |
| Aristotle | ... force for ethical behavior, and is used to describe the ethics of Socrates, | , and other early Greek philosophers. Socrates (469 BC – 399 BC) was one o ... |
| William Aiton | ... hairman; also present were William Townsend Aiton (successor to his father, | , as Superintendent of Kew Gardens), Sir Joseph Banks (President of the Ro ... |
| Ken Thompson | Grep was created by | as a standalone application adapted from the regular expression parser he ... |
| Anvari | 1) | a famous poet in his own right remarks about the eloquence of the Shahname ... |
| Werner Sombart | ... . In this regard he belongs to a similar tradition as his German colleagues | , Georg Simmel, and Wilhelm Dilthey, who stressed the differences between ... |
| Wernher von Braun | ... cal, Tsiolkovsky influenced later rocket scientists throughout Europe, like | . Russian search teams at Peenemünde found a German translation of a book ... |
| Henry Watson Fowler | ... riod when Guernsey was under German occupation during the Second World War. | moved to Guernsey in 1903 where he and his brother Francis George Fowler c ... |
| Milton Friedman | While | described The General Theory as "a great book", he argues that its implici ... |
| Daniel Dennett | ... include William James, Henri Poincaré, Arthur Compton, Henry Margenau, and | |
| Abraham Maslow | ... re, or had been, prison inmates, and 5% were male prostitutes. Psychologist | asserted that Kinsey did not consider "". The data represented only those ... |
| Lagrange | The theorem was proved by | and generalized by Hans Heinrich Bürmann, both in the late 18th century. T ... |
| Tim Berners-Lee | The Semantic Web as described by | is one example of the many attempts over many decades to define standards ... |
| Lewis Carroll's | ... commonly. "Brunch" is an example of a portmanteau word (breakfast + lunch). | "snark" (snake + shark) is also a portmanteau. Neologisms also can be crea ... |
| Dave Cutler | ... are projects, a contemporary of the GNU Project but not associated with it. | , who led the development of RSX-11M, RSX-11M+, VMS and then VAXeln, left ... |
| Guglielmo Marconi | Radio Central was one of the many original operating and touring sites of | 's radio shack, which now is displayed at Rocky Point's Frank J. Carasiti ... |
| Marx's | ... entialist Jean-Paul Sartre—this meant the recovery of the humanist roots of | thought, and the opening of a dialogue between Marxists and moderate socia ... |
| David Hume | ... n at second order questions about ethics. Earlier, the Scottish philosopher | had put forward a similar view on the difference between facts and values |
| Robert H. Goddard | ... theory. Along with his followers the German Hermann Oberth and the American | , he is considered to be one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astro ... |
| Martyn J. Fogg | ... pro-terraforming side of the argument, there are those like Robert Zubrin, | , Richard L. S. Taylor and the late Carl Sagan who believe that it is huma ... |
| Alhazen | ... e and later pseudo-Aristotelian works, like the works of Egyptian scientist | . However, more recent reevaluations emphasize that he was essentially a m ... |
| Pliny the Elder | ... The properties of lodestones and their affinity for iron were written of by | in his encyclopedia Naturalis Historia |
| Andrew Strominger | ... e progress has been made in various approaches to quantum gravity. In 1995, | and Cumrun Vafa showed that counting the microstates of a specific supersy ... |
| Benjamin Peirce | ... the Navy to Washington to head the Bureau of Navigation, Louis Agassiz and | planned the steps whereby the National Academy of Sciences was to be estab ... |
| Goethe | ... presentation. Art as mimesis has deep roots in the philosophy of Aristotle. | defined art as an other resp. a second nature, according to his ideal of a ... |
| Plato | ... wrote a satyr play about the abduction called Orithyia which has been lost. | writes somewhat mockingly that there may have been a rational explanation ... |
| Carl Sagan | ... those like Robert Zubrin, Martyn J. Fogg, Richard L. S. Taylor and the late | who believe that it is humanity's moral obligation to make other worlds su ... |
| Antoine Lavoisier | ... lopment of modern chemistry. Chemistry as we know it today, was invented by | with his law of Conservation of mass in 1783. The discoveries of the chemi ... |
| Mendeleev | ... , potassium. This was puzzling at the time when argon was discovered, since | had placed the elements in his periodic table in order of atomic weight, a ... |
| Émile Durkheim | ... olitical sociology, and the sociology of religion. Along with Karl Marx and | , he is commonly regarded as one of the founders of modern sociology. But ... |
| David H. Hubel | ... d Hamilton O. Smith won the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and | and Torsten N. Wiesel won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| Widukind Lenz | The Australian obstetrician William McBride and the German pediatrician | suspected a link between birth defects and the drug, a theory Lenz proved ... |
| Lucien Tesnière | ... such a sentence, and probably many more. The pioneering French syntactician | came up with the French sentence "Le silence vertébral indispose la voile ... |
| Jacob Perkins | An American living in Great Britain, | , obtained the first patent for a vapor-compression refrigeration system i ... |
| Sergey Korolyov | ... ronautics. His works later inspired leading Soviet rocket engineers such as | and Valentin Glushko and contributed to the success of the |
| Joseph Henry | ... expense to plan the organization with the others. So it was done, bypassing | , who had already made known his reluctance to have a bill for such an aca ... |
| Marcel Griaule | ... rmally be considered impossible without the use of telescopes. According to | 's books Conversations with Ogotemmêli and The Pale Fox they knew about th ... |
| Franz Cumont | Scholarship on Mithras begins with | , who published a two volume collection of source texts and images of monu ... |
| Sydney Brenner | ... n proteins in Belgium on 8 April 1953 went unreported by the British press. | , Jack Dunitz, Dorothy Hodgkin, Leslie Orgel, and Beryl M. Oughton, were s ... |
| Doris Day | ... the film's consciousness and unconscious. Naomi Watts, who modeled Betty on | , Tippi Hedren, and Kim Novak, observed that Betty is a thrill-seeker, som ... |
| Daniel Nathans | ... Herbert Spencer Gasser won the 1944 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, | and Hamilton O. Smith won the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, ... |
| John Gorrie | In 1842, an American physician, | , designed the first system to refrigerate water to produce ice. He also c ... |
| Alexander Graham Bell | ... ted by large distances to talk to each other. Developed in the mid-1870s by | and others, the telephone has long been considered indispensable to busine ... |
| Leonard Susskind | ... ly with the volume of the system. This odd property led Gerard 't Hooft and | to propose the holographic principle, which suggests that anything that ha ... |
| Charles Gide | ... ty professor of law and died in 1880. His uncle was the political economist | |
| Mercator, Gerardus | ... l - Mechelen - Meerhout - Meetjesland - Meeuwen-Gruitrode - Melle - Menen - | - Merckx, Eddy - Merelbeke - Merksplas - Mertens, Pierre - Mesen - Meulebe ... |
| Nikola Tesla | ... tor by Frank J. Sprague and accelerated after the AC motor was developed by | (Westinghouse) and others. Electrification of factories was fastest betwee ... |
| Dmitri Mendeleev | ... necessarily a numbering, but can be used to construct a numbering by fiat. | claimed he arranged his tables in order of atomic weight ("Atomgewicht") H ... |
| Friedrich Müller | ... the German scholar Karl Richard Lepsius. The name was later popularized by | in his Grundriss der Sprachwissenschaft (Wien 1876-88) |
| Piero Sraffa | ... han any racism. Keynes had many Jewish friends, including Isaiah Berlin and | . Keynes several times used his influence to help his Jewish friends, most ... |
| Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire | ... gy and a "pattern of unification" in the organic world. It was supported by | as part of his ideas of idealism, and became a prominent part of his versi ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... 1974–92, and served as the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the government of | from June 1983 to October 1989. He was made a life peer in 1992 |
| Valentin Glushko | ... later inspired leading Soviet rocket engineers such as Sergey Korolyov and | and contributed to the success of the |
| Friedrich Müller | ... c and Hausa, but this would long remain a topic of dispute and uncertainty. | named the traditional "Hamito-Semitic" family in 1876 in his Grundriss der ... |
| Hamilton O. Smith | ... sser won the 1944 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Daniel Nathans and | won the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and David H. Hubel and ... |
| Jan Potocki | ... is narrated within it, and within that there are three more tales narrated. | 's The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (1797-1805) has extremely rich interl ... |
| Josiah Willard Gibbs | ... Postal Service with Connecticut themes include Nathan Hale, Eugene O'Neill, | , Noah Webster, Eli Whitney, the whaling ship the Charles W. Morgan which ... |
| Norbert Wiener | ... still be regarded as rather crude and hazardous in many respects." In 1948 | , the author of Cybernetics: Or the Control and Communication in the Anima ... |
| Jerry Fodor | ... zability. This argument is sometimes referred to as an "a priori argument". | , Putnam, and others noted that, along with being an effective argument ag ... |
| Castor of Rhodes | ... name that may represent a Semitic title such as Ba'al, "lord". According to | (apud Syncellus p. 167), his reign lasted 52 years, its commencement falli ... |
| Alexander Borodin | ... 's works in progress and collaborated on new pieces. He became friends with | , whose music "astonished" him. He spent an increasing amount of time with ... |
| Wardell Pomeroy | ... 1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953), by Dr. Alfred Kinsey, | and others and published by Saunders. Kinsey was a zoologist at Indiana Un ... |
| Karl Marx | ... c sociology, political sociology, and the sociology of religion. Along with | and Émile Durkheim, he is commonly regarded as one of the founders of mode ... |
| Willmoore Kendall | ... ch as Harry V. Jaffa, praised this development. Critics of Lincoln, notably | and Mel Bradford, argued that Lincoln dangerously expanded the scope of th ... |
| Rudolf Weigl | ... e High Command institute for virus and typhus research in Cracow to produce | 's vaccine against epidemic typhus |
| Gerard 't Hooft | ... y that scales linearly with the volume of the system. This odd property led | and Leonard Susskind to propose the holographic principle, which suggests ... |
| Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari | He studied medicine under | , known as Ali ibn Rabban al-Tabari or Ali ibn Sahl, (Cf. al-Qifti, Usaibi ... |
| John Lindley | ... each of its four gardens. The library is based upon the book collection of | |
| Friedrich Hayek | In 1947, Popper founded with | , Milton Friedman, Ludwig von Mises and others the Mont Pelerin Society to ... |
| Joseph Achille Le Bel | In 1874, Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff and | independently proposed that the phenomenon of optical activity could be ex ... |
| Malcolm Fraser | ... olved by Kerr's dismissal of Whitlam and commissioning of Opposition leader | as caretaker Prime Minister. Labor lost the subsequent 1975 election in a ... |
| Franz Cumont | ... ong scholars as to whether this text is an expression of Mithraism as such. | argued that it isn't; Marvin Meyer thinks it is; while sees it as a synthe ... |
| Jerry Fodor | ... nto numerous versions by thinkers as diverse as David Marr, Daniel Dennett, | , and David Lewis. Functionalism helped lay the foundations for modern cog ... |
| Joseph Erlanger | ... inot and George Whipple won the 1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, | and Herbert Spencer Gasser won the 1944 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medic ... |
| Sidgwick | ... ntral error of certain moral theories, such as those propounded by Mill and | . Since then, the term has become common in English-language ethical theor ... |
| Friedrich Hayek | ... l other economists associated with the Austrian School in the 20th century. | in particular elaborated the arguments of Weber and Mises about economic c ... |
| Alexander Dallas Bache | In 1863, enlisting the support of | and Charles Henry Davis, a professional astronomer recently recalled from ... |
| Milton Friedman | In 1947, Popper founded with Friedrich Hayek, | , Ludwig von Mises and others the Mont Pelerin Society to defend classical ... |
| Vladimir Lenin | ... st Stage of Imperialism (1965). The work is self-defined as an extension of | 's Imperialism, the Last Stage of Capitalism (1916), in which Lenin argues ... |
| Leslie Orgel | Sydney Brenner, Jack Dunitz, Dorothy Hodgkin, | , and Beryl M. Oughton, were some of the first people in April 1953 to see ... |
| Nikola Tesla | ... h neighboring village Shoreham, was also the home to inventor and scientist | 's early research facilities |
| Scott McCallum | ... at Jim Doyle, the state Attorney General, and incumbent Republican Governor | , former Lieutenant Governor who had assumed the office in 2001 after Gove ... |
| Kindi | ... nsively. Greco-Roman (Mid- and Neo-Platonic, and Aristotelian) texts by the | school were commented, redacted and developed substantially by Islamic int ... |
| Harold Fleming | In 1969, | proposed that what had previously been known as Western Cushitic is an ind ... |
| Herbert Spencer Gasser | ... ple won the 1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Joseph Erlanger and | won the 1944 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Daniel Nathans and Ham ... |
| Thomas E. Lee | In 1952 archeologist | discovered Sheguiandah on the island, a prehistoric site with artifacts of ... |
| Erasistratus | Early references to the condition can be found in the work of Hippocrates, | , Plutarch and Galen . In the psychiatric literature it was first referred ... |
| Billy Klüver | ... Morris, Robert Whitman, John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, and engineers like | . These performances were often designed to be the creation of a new art f ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... to the complexity of city life, with its banks and factories. The American | was a representative agrarian who built Jeffersonian Democracy around the ... |
| Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff | In 1874, | and Joseph Achille Le Bel independently proposed that the phenomenon of op ... |
| William Murdoch | ... innovation elsewhere, the large scale introduction of this was the work of | , an employee of Boulton and Watt, the Birmingham steam engine pioneers. T ... |
| Daniel Dennett | ... been developed into numerous versions by thinkers as diverse as David Marr, | , Jerry Fodor, and David Lewis. Functionalism helped lay the foundations f ... |
| Walras | ... ibrium models, or unable to determine a long-period position, just like the | ian approach |
| Alfred Adler | Some schools of psychology, notably that associated with | , place power dynamics at the core of their theory (where orthodox Freudia ... |
| Zhang Heng | ... Using a water clock, waterwheel and a series of gears, the Court Astronomer | (78–139 CE) was able to mechanically rotate his metal-ringed armillary sph ... |
| Aristotle | ... European advocates of the modern scientific method inspired by the works of | and later pseudo-Aristotelian works, like the works of Egyptian scientist ... |
| Ernest Rutherford | In 1911, | gave a model of the atom in which a central core held most of the atom's m ... |
| Michael Faraday | In 1820, the British scientist | liquefied ammonia and other gases by using high pressures and low temperat ... |
| Narendra Karmarkar | ... , the Karmarkar Linear Programming Algorithm was developed by mathematician | . Also in 1984, a divestiture agreement signed in 1982 with the American F ... |
| Louis Agassiz | ... ntly recalled from the Navy to Washington to head the Bureau of Navigation, | and Benjamin Peirce planned the steps whereby the National Academy of Scie ... |
| Hyginus | ... s a son of Talaus and Lysimache. Pausanias calls his mother Lysianassa, and | calls her Eurynome. He was one of the three kings at Argos, along with Iph ... |
| Aldo Leopold | ... ion, yet survive and revive after water absorption. A. Carl Leopold, son of | , began studying this capability at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant ... |
| Keith Dowding | ... se power relationships. One rational choice definition of power is given by | in his book Power |
| Dorothy Hodgkin | Sydney Brenner, Jack Dunitz, | , Leslie Orgel, and Beryl M. Oughton, were some of the first people in Apr ... |
| James Clerk Maxwell | ... ry 1857 – 1 January 1894) was a German physicist who clarified and expanded | 's electromagnetic theory of light, which was first demonstrated by David ... |
| W. S. Van Dyke | ... aherty to film White Shadows in the South Seas (1928) in collaboration with | , but their talents proved an uncomfortable fit, and Flaherty resigned fro ... |
| George Dantzig | ... arch, linear programming problems can be solved by the simplex algorithm of | |
| Aristotle | ... translating into Latin many works of Greek philosophy and history, such as | and Procopius. Bruni's translations of Aristotle's Politics and Nicomachea ... |
| Moo-Young Han | ... uark model, it is composed of three up quarks with parallel spins. In 1965, | with Yoichiro Nambu and Oscar W. Greenberg independently resolved the prob ... |
| Abu Nasr Iraqi | ... Khwarezm he had met Abu Rayhan Biruni (a famous scientist and astronomer), | (a renowned mathematician), Abu Sahl Masihi (a respected philosopher) and ... |
| Rufus Osgood Mason | ... upil in public school, he was inspired and motivated by his teacher-mentor, | , whom Rockefeller later named "A Rockefeller Patron" |
| François Quesnay | ... communalism and egalitarianism. This influenced European intellectuals like | , an avid Confucianist and advocate of China's agrarian policies, forming ... |
| Hans Riesel | ... r weapon program, but most of those calculations were done by SMIL. In 1957 | used BESK to discover a Mersenne prime with 969 digits - the largest prime ... |
| William H. Riker | ... the United States Congress, as well as political behavior, such as voting. | and his colleagues and students at the University of Rochester were the ma ... |
| Wilhelm Ostwald | ... ction of nitric acid is via the Ostwald process, named after German chemist | . In this process, anhydrous ammonia is oxidized to nitric oxide, in the p ... |
| Shannon's | ... encryption algorithm) is infeasible – i.e., would take too long to execute. | work on information theory showed that to achieve so called perfect secrec ... |
| Aristotle | ... viding his time between Oxford and Paris, and helped introduce the study of | . He is the first known Oxford Master of Arts and the site where he lived ... |
| Sir Hermann Bondi | ... Charlton area of Charlton in the Royal Borough of Greenwich. The report of | into the North Sea flood of 1953 affecting parts of the Thames Estuary and ... |
| Antonius van den Broek | ... t Z = 79 on the periodic table), a month after Rutherford's paper appeared, | first formally suggested that the central charge and number of electrons i ... |
| Richard Anthony Salisbury | ... Kensington Palace), Charles Francis Greville (a Lord of the Admiralty) and | , who was to become the Secretary of the new society |
| Steven Chu | ... transition. In 1985, laser cooling was used to slow and manipulate atoms by | and team. In 1985, the AMPL modeling language was developed by Robert Four ... |
| Ptolemy | ... It was one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century AD astronomer | , and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations. It is found in a reg ... |
| Hume's | ... related to (and even confused with) the is–ought problem, which comes from | Treatise |
| Richard Owen | ... forms diverged from this shared unity in a branching pattern. The anatomist | used this to support his idealist concept of species as showing the unroll ... |
| Paul Chaikin | ... d by Denis Jerome and Klaus Bechgaard in 1979. Recent experimental works by | 's and Michael Naughton's groups as well as theoretical analysis of their ... |
| Robert Shiller | ... e divisive. Although many economists, such as George Akerlof, Paul Krugman, | , and Joseph Stiglitz, support Keynesian stimulus, over 300 economists sig ... |
| Dougal Dixon | ... r and broadcaster), grew up in Ayr and Dumfries. Author and earth scientist | is from Dumfries. Hunter Davies (author, journalist and broadcaster) lived ... |
| Julia Kristeva | ... iterary criticism include Tzvetan Todorov, Mikhail Bakhtin, Roland Barthes, | , Michael Riffaterre, and Umberto Eco |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... federal military reservation established by President of the United States | in 1802. It consists of about 16,000 acres including the campus of the U.S ... |
| Benjamin Franklin | In 1758, | and John Hadley, professor of chemistry at Cambridge University, conducted ... |
| Werner Sombart | Weber, like his colleague | , regarded economic calculation and especially the double-entry bookkeepin ... |
| Plato | ... , such as the historian Philistus, the poet Philoxenus, and the philosopher | , but treated them in a most arbitrary manner. Once he had Philoxenus arre ... |
| Albert Einstein | ... nics. He strongly disagreed with Niels Bohr's instrumentalism and supported | 's realist approach to scientific theories about the universe. Popper's fa ... |
| Rupert Murdoch | ... per proprietor Twiggy Rathbone (who bore more than a passing resemblance to | ) and his editor, Russell Spam |
| Ralph Bunche | After Bernadotte's death, his assistant American mediator | was appointed to replace him. Bunche eventually negotiated a ceasefire, si ... |
| Yoichiro Nambu | ... omposed of three up quarks with parallel spins. In 1965, Moo-Young Han with | and Oscar W. Greenberg independently resolved the problem by proposing tha ... |
| Zahavi | ... onnection between the elements of religion and its survival value (invoking | 's handicap principle of sexual selection, applied to believers of a relig ... |
| Henry Fairfield Osborn | Andrews along with | were proponents of the Asia hypothesis and led several expeditions to Asia ... |
| Karl Marx's | ... rk of Althusser and his students in an intensive philosophical rereading of | Capital. The book reflects on the philosophical status of Marxist theory a ... |
| Hermann von Helmholtz | ... D from the University of Berlin; and remained for post-doctoral study under | |
| Dmitri Mendeleev | ... nts has a long history culminating in the creation of the periodic table by | . The Nobel Prize in Chemistry created in 1901 gives an excellent overview ... |
| Niels Bohr | ... Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. He strongly disagreed with | 's instrumentalism and supported Albert Einstein's realist approach to sci ... |
| Oscar W. Greenberg | ... quarks with parallel spins. In 1965, Moo-Young Han with Yoichiro Nambu and | independently resolved the problem by proposing that quarks possess an add ... |
| Feleti Sevele | ... cabinet portfolios. He was replaced by the elected Minister of Labour, Dr. | |
| Roland Barthes | ... c tradition of literary criticism include Tzvetan Todorov, Mikhail Bakhtin, | , Julia Kristeva, Michael Riffaterre, and Umberto Eco |
| Ernst Haeckel | ... Baer's branching pattern matched his own idea of descent with modification: | (1866), in his endeavour to produce a synthesis of Darwin's theory with La ... |
| Paul Krugman | ... been even more divisive. Although many economists, such as George Akerlof, | , Robert Shiller, and Joseph Stiglitz, support Keynesian stimulus, over 30 ... |
| Stephen Resnick | ... ser's influence is also seen in the work of economists Richard D. Wolff and | , who have interpreted that Marx's mature works hold a conception of class ... |
| Thomas Holtz | ... re the only described albertosaurines; other undescribed species may exist. | found Appalachiosaurus to be an albertosaurine in 2004, but his more recen ... |
| Noam Chomsky | ... tts Institute of Technology linguistics professor and political commentator | praised the film because of the way people were portrayed doing the real w ... |
| Nick Yee | ... roles (including gender identities) that MMORPGs allow a person to explore. | has surveyed more than 35,000 MMORPG players over the past several years, ... |
| Raymond Gosling | ... f DNA X-ray diffraction data collected by Rosalind Franklin and her student | . The controversy arose from the fact that some of these data were shown t ... |
| Charles Simonyi | Richard Brodie, | , and David Luebbert, members of the Microsoft Word development team, deve ... |
| Noam Chomsky | "Colourless green ideas sleep furiously" is a sentence composed by | in his 1957 Syntactic Structures as an example of a sentence that is gramm ... |
| William Farish | First formalized by Professor | (1759–1837), the concept of an isometric had existed in a rough empirical ... |
| Philip Converse | ... cterized early behavioral political science, including work by Robert Dahl, | , and in the collaboration between sociologist Paul Lazarsfeld and public ... |
| Captain Atom | ... insic Field Subtractor" in 1959. Doctor Manhattan was based upon Charlton's | , who in Moore's original proposal was surrounded by the shadow of nuclear ... |
| Alfred Tarski | ... pondence. Then came the semantic theory of truth formulated by the logician | and published in 1933. Popper writes of learning in 1935 of the consequenc ... |
| Max V. Mathews | ... Appleton also was influenced by the work of the "father" of computer music, | and by French composers Francois Bayle, Beatriz Ferreyra and Michel Redolf ... |
| JK Galbraith | Power may be held through | summarises the types of power as being "Condign" (based on force), "Compen ... |
| Charles Darwin | In On the Origin of Species (1859), | proposed evolution through natural selection, a theory central to modern b ... |
| Frank Knight | ... s and social philosophers, Weber's work did have a significant influence on | , one of the founders of the neoclassical Chicago school of economics, who ... |
| George Bernard Shaw | ... influences were William Shakespeare, Adam Oehlenschläger, Henrik Ibsen, and | . In his dramas Munk often displays a fascination for "strong characters" ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | In | 's work The Lord of the Rings, will o' the wisps are present in the Dead M ... |
| René Descartes | ... ason to reject the concept of 'absolute' omnipotence, while others, such as | , argue that God is absolutely omnipotent, despite the problem |
| Henry Moseley | The experimental situation improved dramatically after research by | in 1913. Moseley, after discussions with Bohr who was at the same lab (and ... |
| Stephen A. Kent | ... lled scientific community of scholars engages in some "corrupt" practices". | has also published several articles about brainwashing. These scholars ten ... |
| Thomas Andrew Knight | Banks proposed his close friend | for membership. The proposal was accepted, despite Knight's ongoing feud w ... |
| Marx's | Althusser's contention is that | thought has been fundamentally misunderstood and underestimated. He fierce ... |
| Apocalypse | ... llfire Club, the arrival of the mysterious Madelyne Pryor, and the villains | , Mister Sinister, Mojo, and Sabretooth |
| Umberto Eco | ... v, Mikhail Bakhtin, Roland Barthes, Julia Kristeva, Michael Riffaterre, and | |
| Hartmut Jahreiß | ... te University, Phil Ianna of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, | of the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut in Heidelberg, Germany and Edgardo C ... |
| Pliny | ... re probably disposed groups of statuary. The pteron consisted (according to | ) of thirty-six columns of the Ionic order, enclosing a square cena. Betwe ... |
| Oliver Heaviside | ... tric axis. Coaxial cable was invented by English engineer and mathematician | , who patented the design in 1880 |
| Cumrun Vafa | ... de in various approaches to quantum gravity. In 1995, Andrew Strominger and | showed that counting the microstates of a specific supersymmetric black ho ... |
| Richard D. Wolff | Althusser's influence is also seen in the work of economists | and Stephen Resnick, who have interpreted that Marx's mature works hold a ... |
| Hermann Oberth | ... and pioneer of the astronautic theory. Along with his followers the German | and the American Robert H. Goddard, he is considered to be one of the foun ... |
| George Bernard Shaw | ... eciated at the time. Along with those of other writers of the time, such as | , his plays addressed the class system and social issues, two of the best ... |
| Adam Smith | ... eaning of such terms. There is a linguistic division of labor, analogous to | 's economic division of labor, according to which such terms have their re ... |
| Béla Bartók | ... sed by Ernő Lendvaï, in his analysis of the use of tonality in the music of | . Tritone relations are also important in the music of George Crumb. Georg ... |
| Sherry Turkle | ... ts and sociologists are able to use MMORPGs as tools for academic research. | , a clinical psychologist, has conducted interviews with computer users in ... |
| D.J. Bernstein | In April 2005, | announced a cache-timing attack that he used to break a custom server that ... |
| Ivan Pavlov | ... enced both the neuron theory of Ramón y Cajal and the conditioned reflex of | , in essence he simply interpreted this new neurological research in terms ... |
| George Brecht | ... age's students included Fluxus founding members Jackson Mac Low, Al Hansen, | and Dick Higgins |
| William Cullen | The first known method of artificial refrigeration was demonstrated by | at the University of Glasgow in Scotland in 1756. Cullen used a pump to cr ... |
| R. John Ellis | ... with DNA during the assembly of nucleosomes. The term was later extended by | in 1987 to describe proteins that mediated the post-translational assembly ... |
| Freud's | ... logy. Althusser's theory of ideology draws on Marx and Gramsci, but also on | and concepts of the unconscious and mirror-phase respectively, and describ ... |
| Paul Lazarsfeld | ... Robert Dahl, Philip Converse, and in the collaboration between sociologist | and public opinion scholar Bernard Berelson |
| John Beazley | ... tradition of this type has been discerned in 5th century BC Greek pottery— | identified a scene of Apollo, Delian palm in hand, revenging Orion for the ... |
| Woo Jang-choon | ... becoming an allopolyploid species. This relationship was first published by | in 1935 and is known as the Triangle of U |
| Rosalind Franklin | ... erated by Watson and Crick's use of DNA X-ray diffraction data collected by | and her student Raymond Gosling. The controversy arose from the fact that ... |
| George Akerlof | ... an economics has been even more divisive. Although many economists, such as | , Paul Krugman, Robert Shiller, and Joseph Stiglitz, support Keynesian sti ... |
| Wilhelm von Bezold | ... had a deep interest in meteorology probably derived from his contacts with | (who was Hertz's professor in a laboratory course at the Munich Polytechni ... |
| Gough Whitlam | ... ld. Margaret Dovey, the future wife of the former Australian prime minister | , finished sixth in the 200 yards breaststroke |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | In | 's fictional Middle-earth, the Dagor Bragollach (Sindarin for Battle of Su ... |
| Bertrand Russell | | named Keynes one of the most intelligent people he had ever known, comment ... |
| Pasteur | ... f sufferers were being fed milk that had been heat-treated (as suggested by | ) to control bacterial disease. Pasteurisation was effective against bacte ... |
| Kenneth Mees | The Kodak Research Laboratories were founded in 1912 with | as the first director. Principal components of the Kodak Research Laborato ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... population was 359 at the 2000 census. The name is derived indirectly from | |
| Sam Hocevar | ... an, resulting in a device driver for Microsoft Windows XP and Windows 2000. | also wrote a driver which is part of the Linux kernel |
| Claude Perrault | ... influence as Colbert's administrative aide, he was able to get his brother, | , employed as an a designer the new section of the Louvre, built between 1 ... |
| Paul Krugman | In 1991, | , as a highly regarded international trade theorist, put out a call for ec ... |
| Gauss | ... s with roots in the 19th century and just prior. Important names are Euler, | , Riemann, Cauchy, Weierstrass, and many more in the 20th century. Complex ... |
| David Gross | The discovery of asymptotic freedom in the strong interactions by | , David Politzer and Frank Wilczek allowed physicists to make precise pred ... |
| Kenneth Ouriel | ... s treated successfully for an abdominal aortic aneurysm by vascular surgeon | . Dr. Ouriel said Dole "maintained his sense of humor throughout his care. |
| Steven Lukes | ... enabling nature of power. A comprehensive account of power can be found in | Power: A Radical View where he discusses the three dimensions of power. Th ... |
| Joseph Burr Tyrrell | ... expedition of the Geological Survey of Canada, led by the famous geologist | . Due to a lack of specialised equipment the almost complete skull could o ... |
| William Opdyke | ... ademic works on refactoring functional and procedural programs, followed by | 's 1992 dissertation on the refactoring of object-oriented programs, altho ... |
| Robert Edmond Grant | ... the Edinburgh and London schools of higher anatomy around 1830, notably by | , but was opposed by Karl Ernst von Baer's embryology of divergence in whi ... |
| Joseph Banks | ... cessor to his father, William Aiton, as Superintendent of Kew Gardens), Sir | (President of the Royal Society), James Dickson (a nurseryman), William Fo ... |
| Andrew Wiles | ... and z such that x^n+y^n=z^n . Before this was proven for all n>2 in 1995 by | , it had been proven for many values of n. These proofs inspired further r ... |
| Friedrich Hayek | Austrian School economist | was Keynes's most prominent contemporary critic, with sharply opposing vie ... |
| August Schleicher | ... ean family of languages. Such opinion was first represented by the likes of | , and to a certain extent, Antoine Meillet. Endzelīns thought that the sim ... |
| Richard Trevithick | ... teenth century, attempts were being made to employ steam power for haulage. | of Cornwall had experimented with various models of steam locomotive, and ... |
| Charles H. Sternberg | In 1913, paleontologist | recovered another tyrannosaurid skeleton from the slightly older Dinosaur ... |
| Galileo | ... owledge", History, analogous to the contributions of Thales to mathematics, | to physics, or, better, Freud's , in that the structure of his theory is u ... |
| Frank Wilczek | ... totic freedom in the strong interactions by David Gross, David Politzer and | allowed physicists to make precise predictions of the results of many high ... |
| Roland Barthes | ... terature have often been less systematic (or, in some special cases such as | 's S/Z, they have been so specifically and exhaustively systematic as to r ... |
| Gary Becker | ... the theoretical basis for stimulus packages. Others, like Robert Barro and | , say that the empirical evidence for beneficial effects from Keynesian st ... |
| Benjamin Zablocki | ... her scholars disagree with this consensus amongst sociologists of religion. | asserts that it's obvious that brainwashing occurs, at least to any object ... |
| Aristotle | In Greece, Hesiod, | and Xenophon promoted agrarian ideas. Even more influential were such Roma ... |
| Joseph Rothschild | ... ith the Germans was condemned by AK headquarters. Tadeusz Piotrowski quotes | saying "The Polish Home Army was by and large untainted by collaboration" ... |
| Friedrich Hayek | ... f value on the laws of psychophysics by Lionel Robbins, George Stigler, and | , though the broader issue of the relation between economics and psycholog ... |
| Spock | ... affairs. Moore also wanted to avoid creating an emotionless character like | from Star Trek, so he sought for Dr. Manhattan to retain "human habits" an ... |
| Eva Hesse | ... e of the term covered the period 1966 - 1976 and was applied to the work of | , Keith Sonnier, Richard Serra and new work by former minimalists Robert S ... |
| Richard Feynman | ... interactions could probably not be fully described by quantum field theory. | argued that high energy experiments showed quarks are real particles: he c ... |
| Alkindus | ... udius Ptolemy (his Optics in Arabic translation) and the Islamic scientists | (al-Kindi) and Alhazen (Ibn al-Haytham). He includes a discussion of the p ... |
| Dawson Turner | ... living came from teaching art and one of his students, the local antiquary | , became a good friend, introducing him to many pupils and collaborating o ... |
| George Gamow | ... expertise in the interpretation of X-ray diffraction patterns of proteins. | established a group of scientists interested in the role of RNA as an inte ... |
| Hugo Brandt Corstius | ... ates into English as thermometer. The Dutch Wikipedia states, however, that | , in his book, Opperlandse taal- & letterkunde, came up with the longest e ... |
| John James Audubon | ... ere commissioned for books. Among the most famous of these bird artists was | , whose paintings of North American birds were a great commercial success ... |
| Mary Pickford | ... roducing them, and from 1918 he was even composing the music for them. With | , Douglas Fairbanks and D. W. Griffith, he co-founded United Artists in 19 ... |
| Robert Barro | ... Lucas, questioned the theoretical basis for stimulus packages. Others, like | and Gary Becker, say that the empirical evidence for beneficial effects fr ... |
| Henry Fairfield Osborn | In Andrews book in 1926 On the Trail of the Ancient Man, | noted in the preface that the birthplace of modern humans would be found i ... |
| Vladimir Bekhterev | Early in the 20th century Russian neurologist | and Estonian neurosurgeon Ludvig Puusepp operated on three patients with m ... |
| John Wesley Hyatt | In the 1860s, an American, | , acquired Parkes' patent and began experimenting with cellulose nitrate w ... |
| Adolf von Baeyer | ... d to contract. These advances can be traced to 1865 when the German chemist | began working on the synthesis of indigo. He described his first synthesis ... |
| Karl Ernst von Baer | ... her anatomy around 1830, notably by Robert Edmond Grant, but was opposed by | 's embryology of divergence in which embryonic parallels only applied to e ... |
| Darwin's | ... e well known as a region of distinct fauna, famous as the place of birth of | Theory of Evolution, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site |
| Mikhail Bakhtin | ... rs in the semiotic tradition of literary criticism include Tzvetan Todorov, | , Roland Barthes, Julia Kristeva, Michael Riffaterre, and Umberto Eco |
| Robert Fourer | ... y Steven Chu and team. In 1985, the AMPL modeling language was developed by | , David M. Gay and Brian Kernighan at Bell Laboratories. Also in 1985, Bel ... |
| George Stigler | ... he economic theory of value on the laws of psychophysics by Lionel Robbins, | , and Friedrich Hayek, though the broader issue of the relation between ec ... |
| Aristotle | ... wise man will know what is right, do what is good, and therefore be happy. | (384 BC – 322 BC) posited an ethical system that may be termed "self-reali ... |
| Todd Gitlin | ... for material in his books, particularly , as New York University Professor | has written. The group Free Exchange on Campus issued a 50-page report in ... |
| Frank Steglich | heavy fermion metal, was discovered in 1978 by | . In the early eighties, many more unconventional, heavy fermion supercond ... |
| Hermann von Helmholtz | ... Dresden, Munich and Berlin, where he studied under Gustav R. Kirchhoff and | |
| Rupert Murdoch | ... 5. In the 1980s, there was an attempt by unknown entrepreneurs to seek from | , who owned The Times, the right to use the Times Roman name; separately, ... |
| Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz | ... matic hydrocarbon, with the nature of its bonding first being recognized by | in the 19th century |
| Alexander Rich | ... Crick engaged in several X-ray diffraction collaborations such as one with | on the structure of collagen. However, Crick was quickly drifting away fro ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... d spread across America and the South by figures such as George Washington, | , and Robert E. Lee. Their homes in Virginia represent the birthplace of A ... |
| António Egas Moniz | ... eucotomy procedure was the work of the Portuguese physician and neurologist | , who was highly acclaimed for his work on cerebral angiography (radiograp ... |
| Anton Rop | ... ition, Slovenia's government rejected this statement and its Prime Minister | reiterated that Slovenia has conditioned the decision to go to war upon a ... |
| David Ricardo's | ... ng terms are adopted—for example, the theory of surplus value that combines | concepts of rent, profit, and interest—their meaning and relation to other ... |
| Yuri Matiyasevich | ... am contributed to the resolution of Hilbert's tenth problem in mathematics. | had formulated a theorem involving the use of Fibonacci numbers in 1970, w ... |
| Joseph Stiglitz | ... many economists, such as George Akerlof, Paul Krugman, Robert Shiller, and | , support Keynesian stimulus, over 300 economists signed a petition statin ... |
| Sadi Carnot | ... rating principle of the refrigeration cycle was described mathematically by | in 1824 as a heat engine |
| Sue Hendrickson | On August 12, 1990, | , an American paleontologist working for the Black Hills Institute of Geol ... |
| Charles Wyville Thomson | Prompted by the Scot, | —of the University of Edinburgh and Merchiston Castle School—the Royal Soc ... |
| Walter W. Granger | ... they were determined in 1995 actually to belong to the theropod Oviraptor . | discovered a skull from the Cretaceous period. In 1925, the museum sent a ... |
| Richard Dawkins | "Viruses of the Mind" (1993) is an article by | using memetics and analogies with biological and computer viruses, and wit ... |
| Albert Einstein | ... ns when an irresistible force meets an immovable object? He points out that | demonstrated the equivalence of mass-energy. That is, according to relativ ... |
| William Whiston | ... . St J. Thackeray for the Loeb Classical Library edition widely used today. | , who created perhaps the most famous of the English translations of Josep ... |
| Benjamin Franklin | ... o owned their own land and voted for their local and provincial government. | , in 1772, after examining the wretched hovels in Scotland surrounding the ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... n was under French control as Louisiana. In 1803, the Louisiana Purchase by | brought the area under United States control. In 1830, Congress passed the ... |
| Otto Höfler | ... removed by trickery; it must be kept for a whole year and carefully tended. | (1934) and other authors of his generation emphasized the identification o ... |
| Nikolay Bogolyubov | ... ctivity which does not conform to either the conventional BCS theory or the | 's theory or its extensions |
| Massimo Introvigne | ... on to Bromley, Thomas Robbins, Dick Anthony, Eileen Barker, Newton Maloney, | , John Hall, Lorne Dawson, Anson Shupe, Gordon Melton, Marc Galanter, (amo ... |
| William Playfair | ... mong other things she used the pie chart, which had first been developed by | in 1801. While taken for granted now, it was at the time a relatively nove ... |
| Dick Anthony | ... American youth to be "implausible." In addition to Bromley, Thomas Robbins, | , Eileen Barker, Newton Maloney, Massimo Introvigne, John Hall, Lorne Daws ... |
| Bertrand Russell | ... s traveled abroad, visiting Europe and meeting working philosophers such as | and members of the Vienna Circle like Rudolf Carnap, Otto Neurath, and Mor ... |
| Poggendorff | ... 1833 they installed a long wire above the town's roofs. Gauss combined the | -Schweigger multiplicator with his magnetometer to build a more sensitive ... |
| Charles Darwin | | 's theory of evolution is based on three principles: natural selection, he ... |
| Ivo Pranjković | ... " rather than "Bosnian" whilst some other Croatian linguists (Zvonko Kovač, | ) recognize it as Bosnian. In the opinion of the former, the appellation " ... |
| Nizam al-Mulk | ... ay in the military realm. Domestic affairs were handled by his able vizier, | , the founder of the administrative organization which characterized and s ... |
| Benjamin Franklin | ... police suspicion that they were English spies, they visited Paris, meeting | , General Lafayette, Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, and joined the French ... |
| Thatcher | ... the system has been through phases of evolutionary change. The Conservative | administrations attempted to bring competition into the NHS by developing ... |
| Konstantin Tsiolkovsky | The Russian schoolmaster and physicist | foresaw elements of the space community in his book Beyond Planet Earth wr ... |
| Isaac Asimov | ... und to a differentiated location in space contra transcendent omnipresence. | , a confirmed atheist, answered a variation of this question: what happens ... |
| David Hume | Historian and philosopher | , in his history of England, recounts how in the reign of Henry III (r.121 ... |
| Oliver Stone | ... , The Thomas Crown Affair, and Operation Dumbo Drop. He had a small part in | 's Natural Born Killers, playing a ranting inmate during a prison riot; hi ... |
| Heinrich Gottfried Ollendorff | ... contemporary methods. The earliest applied linguists included Jean Manesca, | (1803–1865), Henry Sweet (1845–1912), Otto Jespersen (1860–1943), and Haro ... |
| Albrecht Kossel | ... ts codons are CAU and CAC. Histidine was first isolated by German physician | in 1896. Histidine is an essential amino acid in humans and other mammals. ... |
| Charles Sanders Peirce | Associated with the pragmatists, | , William James, and especially John Dewey, pragmatic ethics holds that mo ... |
| Jelle Zijlstra | ... ernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, Prince Ferdinand von Bismarck, Prime Minister | , and Queen |
| Frank P. Ramsey | Sraffa joined the so-called "cafeteria group", together with | and Ludwig Wittgenstein, a sort of informal club that discussed Keynes's t ... |
| René Descartes | Some Philosophers, such as | , argue that God is absolutely omnipotent. In addition, some philosophers ... |
| John Amos Comenius | ... s displaced by French, Italian, and English by the end of the 16th century. | was one of many people who tried to reverse this trend. He composed a comp ... |
| Martin Davis | ... teger coefficients) has a solution among the integers. Putnam, working with | and Julia Robinson, demonstrated that Matiyasevich's theorem was sufficien ... |
| Hermann Weyl | ... rement of time and space, if not on time and space themselves. According to | , the assumption that space is made of finite and discrete units is subjec ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... rnor of New York, and then fourth Vice President of the United States under | and James Madison; and Alexander Hamilton, first United States Secretary o ... |
| David Ricardo | In 1817, | , James Mill and Robert Torrens showed that free trade would benefit the i ... |
| Wernher von Braun | ... Lasswitz in 1897 and Bernal, Oberth, Von Pirquet and Noordung in the 1920s. | contributed his ideas in a 1952 Colliers article. In the 1950s and 1960s, ... |
| Gerard K. O'Neill | ... k on the subject was the book The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space by | in 1977 which was followed the same year by Colonies in Space by T. A. Hep ... |
| Karl Pearson | ... obability distribution of a continuous variable and was first introduced by | . A histogram consists of tabular frequencies, shown as adjacent rectangle ... |
| Marie François Xavier Bichat | Vitalism was revived in the early 18th century by the physician | , and the physician John Hunter who recognized a "living principle" in add ... |
| Leonardo da Vinci | Sometimes credited with the greatest development in parachutes since | , the American Domina Jalbert invented the Parafoil which had sectioned ce ... |
| Eileen Barker | ... to be "implausible." In addition to Bromley, Thomas Robbins, Dick Anthony, | , Newton Maloney, Massimo Introvigne, John Hall, Lorne Dawson, Anson Shupe ... |
| Jerry Donohue | ... the imino and enol forms that Crick and Watson had assumed. They consulted | who confirmed the most likely structures of the nucleotide bases. The base ... |
| William Wilberforce | ... m the Georgian Church on Clapham Common, from where The Clapham Sect led by | and a group of upper class evangelical Christians campaigned for the aboli ... |
| Robert Grosseteste | ... ions should be submitted for further experimental testing is very much like | 's 'Method of Verification', and Bacon's work on optics and the calendar a ... |
| James Mill | In 1817, David Ricardo, | and Robert Torrens showed that free trade would benefit the industrially w ... |
| Wilhelm Weber | ... heory of the Earth's magnetism in 1831, together with the physics professor | in Göttingen. Among the most important inventions of the time was the unif ... |
| T. A. Heppenheimer | ... K. O'Neill in 1977 which was followed the same year by Colonies in Space by | |
| Johannes Peter Müller | Between 1833 and 1844, | wrote a book on physiology called Handbuch der Physiologie, which became t ... |
| Isaac Milner | ... is future career. He travelled with his mother and sister in the company of | , the brilliant younger brother of his former headmaster, who had been Fel ... |
| Friedrich Hayek | ... , a sort of informal club that discussed Keynes's theory of probability and | 's theory on business cycles. In 1939, Sraffa was elected to a Fellowship ... |
| Josh Fisher | ... he term VLIW, and the concept of VLIW architecture itself, were invented by | in his research group at Yale University in the early 1980s. His original ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | In 1803, President | issued the following instructions to Meriwether Lewis: "The object of your ... |
| John C. Frémont | ... en and not a separate river as others believed under the Buenaventura myth. | 's 1843 Great Basin expedition proved that no river traversed the Great Ba ... |
| Raymond Pearl | ... the earliest aging theories was the Rate of Living Hypothesis described by | in 1928(based on earlier work by Max Rubner), which states that fast basal ... |
| Julia Robinson | ... s) has a solution among the integers. Putnam, working with Martin Davis and | , demonstrated that Matiyasevich's theorem was sufficient to prove that no ... |
| John Dewey | ... origin of pragmatic ethics in the United States, especially in the work of | |
| Otto Jespersen | ... anesca, Heinrich Gottfried Ollendorff (1803–1865), Henry Sweet (1845–1912), | (1860–1943), and Harold Palmer (1877–1949). They worked on setting languag ... |
| Wilhelm Weber | ... created by Baron Schilling in Russia, and in 1833 Carl Friedrich Gauss and | invented their own code to communicate over a distance of 1200 m within Gö ... |
| Karl Richard Lepsius | ... o as "Hamito-Semitic", a term introduced in the 1860s by the German scholar | . The name was later popularized by Friedrich Müller in his Grundriss der ... |
| Joseph V. Brady | ... three-year-old chimpanzee was trained under the direction of neuroscientist | at Holloman Air Force Base Aero Medical Field Laboratory to do simple, tim ... |
| Raoul Bott | ... , that he began to work hard. Smale finally earned his Ph.D. in 1957, under | |
| John Stuart Mill | ... s in any particular country's self-interest to open its borders to imports. | proved that a country with monopoly pricing power on the international mar ... |
| David Ricardo | ... to perfect Classical Economics' theory of value, as originally developed by | and others. He aimed to demonstrate flaws in the mainstream neoclassical t ... |
| Allan McLeod Cormack | ... mark paper, published in 1961, he described the basic concept later used by | to develop the mathematics behind computerized tomography. In October, 196 ... |
| Margaret Singer | ... Barker and other scholars have criticized mental health professionals like | for accepting lucrative expert witness jobs in court cases involving NRMs. ... |
| Leonardo da Vinci | ... sidered using chemical warfare. One of the earliest such references is from | , who proposed a powder of sulfide of arsenic and verdigris in the 15th ce ... |
| Alexander Bogdanov | ... Lenin in 1908 when the Bolshevik faction split into Lenin's supporters and | 's followers. Zinoviev remained Lenin's constant aide-de-camp and represen ... |
| George Brecht | ... s Fountain. Fluxus art was often presented in "events", which Fluxus member | defined as "the smallest unit of a situation". The events consisted of a m ... |
| David Hilbert | ... prove that no such general algorithm can exist. It was therefore shown that | 's famous tenth problem has no solution |
| William Rowan Hamilton | ... s the complex numbers. They were first described by Irish mathematician Sir | in 1843 and applied to mechanics in three-dimensional space. A feature of ... |
| Siegfried Czapski | ... Ernst Abbe's theory of stops and pupils, which was made widely available by | in 1893, Dallmeyer knew that his working aperture was not the same as the ... |
| The Prince of Wales | ... was made a Knight Bachelor for services to music, as Sir Michael Jagger by | . Mick Jagger's knighthood received mixed reactions. Some fans were disapp ... |
| Imre Lakatos | Popper's student | attempted to reconcile Kuhn’s work with falsificationism by arguing that s ... |
| Pytheas | Notable Greek seafarers include people such as | of Marseilles, Scylax of Caryanda who sailed to Iberia and beyond, Nearchu ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... dy of Superman. Bell also claims to be the first cartoonist to have spotted | 's mad left eye, as well as the fact that Tony Blair shares this unusual f ... |
| Karl Pearson | ... f a histogram); and gramma 'drawing, record, writing'. It is also said that | , who introduced the term in 1895, derived the name from "historical diagr ... |
| Henry Sweet | ... linguists included Jean Manesca, Heinrich Gottfried Ollendorff (1803–1865), | (1845–1912), Otto Jespersen (1860–1943), and Harold Palmer (1877–1949). Th ... |
| Max Rubner | ... ving Hypothesis described by Raymond Pearl in 1928(based on earlier work by | ), which states that fast basal metabolic rate corresponds to short maximu ... |
| Ian Goldberg | ... nting patented Chaumian digital cash in an underground library, HINDE, with | , named after Hinde ten Berge, a Dutch cypherpunk also present at FC98 |
| Alexander Hamilton | ... resident of the United States under Thomas Jefferson and James Madison; and | , first United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Washington |
| Isaac Asimov | | claims that Gothic cavalry adopted technology reverse-engineered from the ... |
| Bertrand Russell | ... porates a now-familiar idea, the notion of a 'convergent infinite series.'" | offered a "solution" to the paradoxes based on modern physics, but Brown c ... |
| Gregor Mendel | ... tion were poorly understood. In the 1940s, however, biologists incorporated | 's principles of genetics to explain both, resulting in the modern synthes ... |
| Hipparchus | ... , where many aristocratic names incorporated the Greek word for horse, like | and Xanthippe; the character Pheidippides in Aristophanes' Clouds has his ... |
| Johann Friedrich Blumenbach | ... formative force, and declared "All believers in epigenesis are Vitalists." | established epigenesis as the model of thought in the life sciences in 178 ... |
| Lenin's | ... support one another. Althusser elaborates on these concepts by reference to | analysis of the Russian Revolution of 1917 |
| Pierre Magnol | ... Magnolioideae of the family Magnoliaceae. It is named after French botanist | |
| shannon | Often, information entropy is measured in | s, whereas the (discrete) storage space of digital devices is measured in ... |
| Joseph Schumpeter | ... economics and macroeconomics, was coined by the Austrian-American economist | in 1908 as a way of referring to the views of Weber. According to Weber's ... |
| Arthur C. Clarke | ... n the past and of those more complex Cosmoses He will create in the future. | 's 1953 short story "The Nine Billion Names of God" treats non-scientific ... |
| François Quesnay | ... were partially influenced by Chinese agrarianism; leading physiocrats like | were avid Confucianists that advocated China's agrarian policies |
| Friedrich List | ... s aspects of Infant Industry protection, promoted by Alexander Hamilton and | , and which defined the trade policy of the United States and Britain duri ... |
| Joan Crawford | ... the audience; Myrna Loy, Rosalind Russell, Lana Turner, Sylvia Sidney, and | were the other participants. Davis was well received and was invited to to ... |
| Henry Fonda | ... en the series and the 1968 theatrical release Yours, Mine and Ours starring | and Lucille Ball. The original script for The Brady Bunch predated the scr ... |
| Goethe | ... ble review of August Wilhelm Schlegel's Ion was withdrawn at the request of | . It was mainly as a schoolmaster in Weimar that he wrote his papers on th ... |
| Peter Barlow | ... ter, and said he had experimented successfully with such a system. In 1824, | said that such a system only worked to a distance of about , and so was im ... |
| Michel Foucault | ... a (with whom he at one time shared an office at the ENS), noted philosopher | , and the pre-eminent Lacanian psychoanalyst |
| Juan Galindo | ... e first published mention of the site seems to have been a brief mention by | in 1833, published by the Royal Geographical Society. Professor Edwin Rock ... |
| Carl Menger | ... ing of many of the arguments that had been made against the historicists by | , the founder of the Austrian School of economics, in the context of the a ... |
| James Dickson | ... tendent of Kew Gardens), Sir Joseph Banks (President of the Royal Society), | (a nurseryman), William Forsyth (Superintendent of the gardens of St. Jame ... |
| Escher von der Linth | ... e, the massif of the Tödi is mainly composed of gneiss, which, according to | , overlies a pioritic granite with large felspar crystals. The summit and ... |
| Stanley Coren | ... well as thoroughly cunning, particularly with strangers. They rank 42nd in | 's |
| António Egas Moniz | Half of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine of 1949 was awarded to | for the "discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psycho ... |
| Ernst Abbe | Although he did not yet have access to | 's theory of stops and pupils, which was made widely available by Siegfrie ... |
| Radoslav Katičić | A number of Croatian linguists, specifically | , Dalibor Brozović, and Tomislav Ladan, consider the appropriate name to b ... |
| Pierre Magnol | ... ave the species, known locally as "talauma", the genus name Magnolia, after | . The English botanist William Sherard, who studied botany in Paris under ... |
| Alexander Hamilton | ... dustrialization combines aspects of Infant Industry protection, promoted by | and Friedrich List, and which defined the trade policy of the United State ... |
| John Stuart Mill | ... quentialist theories of utilitarian philosophers such as Jeremy Bentham and | , and deontological ethics as epitomized by the work of Immanuel Kant. The ... |
| Val Kilmer | ... break Hotel" and "All Shook Up", while the same year in True Romance, actor | performed an a cappella version. Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman covered th ... |
| Freeman Dyson | In 2001, the space news website Space.com asked | , J. Richard Gott and Sid Goldstein for reasons why some humans should liv ... |
| Beatrix Potter | ... s. The caves have attracted many famous people, among them Agatha Christie, | , King George V and Haile Selassie who was so impressed with his visit tha ... |
| Aristotle | ... ecurity of despots rests entirely on the loyalty and power of mercenaries”. | wrote how some form of ‘guard’ (viz. a personal army) is needed for absolu ... |
| David A. Smith | ... earch on what became the Etoys system. More recently he started, along with | , David P. Reed, Andreas Raab, Rick McGeer, Julian Lombardi, and Mark McCa ... |
| Stefan Kaczmarz | ... an infinite set of its projections. In 1937, a Polish mathematician, named | , developed a method to find an approximate solution to a large system of ... |
| Wolverine | ... . In the first storyline to feature the nation, some members of the X-Men ( | , Rogue, and their ally Madelyne Pryor) were kidnapped by Genoshan Magistr ... |
| James Lovelock | In 1984, | and Michael Allaby published The Greening of Mars. Lovelock's book was one ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... e its rightful owners. His labor theory of value influenced the thinking of | , who in turn shaped the way many nineteenth-century American homesteaders ... |
| Alfred Maudslay | ... of Guatemala visited in 1881 and published another short account. Explorers | and Désiré Charnay arrived here within days of each other in 1882, and the ... |
| William Losh | ... eir infancy, with cast iron exhibiting excessive brittleness. Together with | , Stephenson improved the design of cast iron rails to reduce breakage; th ... |
| Jean Bodin | ... o the church, centering on the pope. The immediate author of the theory was | , who based it on the interpretation of Roman law. With the rise of nation ... |
| Dalibor Brozović | A number of Croatian linguists, specifically Radoslav Katičić, | , and Tomislav Ladan, consider the appropriate name to be "Bosniak" rather ... |
| Charles Newton | ... f the Mausoleum have been recovered sufficiently by the 1857 excavations of | to enable a fairly complete restoration of its design to be made. The buil ... |
| Marcello Malpighi | ... was Francis Glisson (1597–1677) an English anatomist and an Italian doctor | (1628–1694) |
| Eileen Barker | Sociologists including | have criticized theories of conversion precisely because they function to ... |
| Caspar Friedrich Wolff | ... ) an English anatomist and an Italian doctor Marcello Malpighi (1628–1694). | (1733–1794) is considered to be the father of epigenetic descriptive embry ... |
| Joseph Greenberg | ... y Maurice Delafosse (1914). However, it did not come into general use until | (1963) formally proposed its adoption. In doing so, Greenberg sought to em ... |
| Foucault | ... ay be compared with Bourdieu's concept of habitus. ISAs may also anticipate | 's disciplinary institutions, which provide a critical rethinking of Althu ... |
| Thomas Sydenham | ... is disputed and the origination of the fifth sign has also been ascribed to | and Virchow |
| Aristotle | ... Bacon had received showed him the rare defects in existing academic debate. | was known only through translations, as none of the professors would learn ... |
| Robert Cialdini | ... hinking. Meanwhile, in Influence, Science and Practice, social psychologist | argues that mind control is possible through the covert exploitation of th ... |
| Désiré Charnay | ... in 1881 and published another short account. Explorers Alfred Maudslay and | arrived here within days of each other in 1882, and they published more de ... |
| Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov | ... hey are most likely to have had to have developed through language contact. | and Vladimir Toporov believed in the unity of Balto-Slavic, but not in the ... |
| Dennis Ritchie | ... e atomic layer at a time. In 1969, the UNIX operating system was created by | and Ken Thompson. From 1969 to 1971, Aaron Marcus, the first graphic desig ... |
| Joseph Greenberg | ... ded Hausa (a Chadic language) in his comparative Hamito-Semitic vocabulary. | (1950) strongly confirmed Cohen's rejection of "Hamitic", added (and sub-c ... |
| Gopal Krishna Gokhale | Tilak opposed the moderate views of | , and was supported by fellow Indian nationalists Bipin Chandra Pal in Ben ... |
| Alfred Marshall | ... turns to scale and perfect competition, underlining some doubtful points of | 's theory of the firm. This was amended for British readers and published ... |
| Hugh Jackman | ... omance, actor Val Kilmer performed an a cappella version. Nicole Kidman and | covered the song in a medley with Prince's "Kiss", for the 2006 Warner Bro ... |
| Gerd B. Müller | ... plasticity of developmental mechanisms. The biologists Stuart A. Newman and | have suggested that organisms early in the history of multicellular life w ... |
| Robert Haynes | ... Cs) are added to the atmosphere. Motivated by Lovelock's book, biophysicist | worked behind the scenes to promote terraforming, and contributed the word ... |
| William Pengelly | ... coexistence theory. The cave was extensively explored from 1865 to 1880 by | , who found evidence to support McEnery's hypothesis. The caves have attra ... |
| Charles Plumier | In 1703 | (1646–1704) described a flowering tree from the island of Martinique in hi ... |
| Erasmus Darwin | ... e seriously ill and returned to his home at Turnhurst, Staffordshire, where | attended him and discovered that he was suffering from diabetes |
| Michel-Rolph Trouillot | He enforced a harsh regimen of plantation labor, described by the historian | as caporalisme agraire (agrarian militarism). As had Toussaint L'Ouverture ... |
| Friedrich Engels | ... description of housing of the mill workers in England in 1844 was given by | , a co-founder of Marxism. In the introduction of the 1892 edition of Enge ... |
| Teoberto Maler | ... Maudslay's report was published by the Royal Geographical Society in 1883. | visited the site repeatedly from 1897 to 1900, his detailed two volume des ... |
| Paul Davies | The physicist | also supports the view that if a planetary catastrophe threatens the survi ... |
| Godfrey Hounsfield | ... d "Algebraic Reconstruction Technique (ART)" which was later adapted by Sir | as the image reconstruction mechanism in his famous invention, the first c ... |
| Thomas Kuhn | ... preferred over the much more specific “the solar system has seven planets”. | ’s influential book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions argued that sc ... |
| Vladimir Toporov | Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov and | believed in the unity of Balto-Slavic, but not in the unity of Baltic. In ... |
| Isaac Asimov | ... which isolates them from local space-time at the instant of the collision. | 's short story, "The Last Question" was published in 1956. The story is br ... |
| Plato | ... ns of people his starting-point. Aspects of Socrates were first united from | , who also combined with them many of the principles established by earlie ... |
| Martyn J. Fogg | Beginning in 1985, | began publishing several articles on terraforming. He also served as edito ... |
| Stuart A. Newman | ... due to the inherent plasticity of developmental mechanisms. The biologists | and Gerd B. Müller have suggested that organisms early in the history of m ... |
| Abu Rayhan Biruni | ... ophical views were later criticized by Persian Islamic philosophers such as | and Avicenna in the early 11th century. Biruni in particular wrote a short ... |
| John Maynard Keynes | ... ns and paper, with which Gramsci would write his Prison Notebooks), brought | to prudently invite Sraffa to the University of Cambridge, where he was in ... |
| Henry Cavendish | ... reference to its chemical inactivity) was suspected to be present in air by | in 1785 but was not isolated until 1894 by Lord Rayleigh and Sir William R ... |
| Barry Cunliffe | ... became Professor of Archaeology at the University of Southampton succeeding | . During his time at Southampton he directed excavations at Quanterness in ... |
| Erwin Chargaff | ... equal to cytosine and the amount of adenine is equal to thymine. A visit by | to England in 1952 reinforced the salience of this important fact for Wats ... |
| Gerard Béhague | models or, for that matter, passive consumption by national audiences." – | , Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology. Pg. 8 |
| Ronald N. Bracewell | ... echanism in his famous invention, the first commercial CT scanner. In 1956, | used a method similar to Radon Transform to reconstruct a map of solar rad ... |
| Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus | ... state of Saxony, the search concluded with an eventual discovery in 1708 by | that produced a hard, white, translucent type of porcelain specimen with a ... |
| Marcel Cohen | ... c, thus foreshadowing Greenberg, but his suggestion found little resonance. | (1924) rejected the idea of a distinct Hamitic subgroup and included Hausa ... |
| Robert Boyle | In 2004 The | Science Room was opened nearby in the dedicated to his life and works wher ... |
| Avicenna | ... er criticized by Persian Islamic philosophers such as Abu Rayhan Biruni and | in the early 11th century. Biruni in particular wrote a short Risala treat ... |
| Aristotle | ... eloped the whole of this material into the unity of a comprehensive system. | of Stagira, the most important disciple of Plato, shared with his teacher ... |
| William Ramsay | ... Cavendish in 1785 but was not isolated until 1894 by Lord Rayleigh and Sir | in Scotland in an experiment in which they removed all of the oxygen, carb ... |
| Moritz Schlick | ... sell and members of the Vienna Circle like Rudolf Carnap, Otto Neurath, and | . Morris was greatly impressed with the logical positivist (logical empiri ... |
| Steven Hassan | ... r in the West and was largely superseded by exit counseling. Exit counselor | promotes what he calls the "BITE" model in his book (2000). The BITE model ... |
| Louis Pasteur | ... s of the time continued to investigate the possibility of vital properties. | , shortly after his famous rebuttal of spontaneous generation, performed s ... |
| Sylvanus Morley | In 1931 | led a Carnegie Institution expedition to Yaxchilan, mapped the site and di ... |
| Friedrich Wöhler | ... esized from inorganic components. However, as chemical techniques advanced, | synthesised from inorganic components in 1828 |
| George Martin Lees | ... n 1926 under the direction of a geologist of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, | , but no oil was found. The oil issue raised its head again in 1933 after ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... ques Rousseau in 18th century France, among others. His writings influenced | , who then incorporated Rousseau's reference to "inalienable rights" into ... |
| Andreas Vesalius | ... ica, the first book on human anatomy, was published and printed in Basel by | (1514–1564) |
| Tatiana Proskouriakoff | Mayanist | did some pioneering work on deciphering Maya writing using the inscription ... |
| Wardell Pomeroy | ... rst published in Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) by Alfred Kinsey, | and others, and was also prominent in the complementary work Sexual Behavi ... |
| Paul Bahn | Along with fellow Archaeologist | , Renfrew has come up with the 'Renfrew and Bahns indicator of Religion an ... |
| Milton Friedman | ... sm articulated by economists working in the Neoclassical tradition, such as | . Neoliberalism emphasizes the Ricardian concept of comparative advantage ... |
| Ginger Rogers | ... burn in Alice Adams in 1935. He went on in the late 1930s to direct several | and Fred Astaire movies, not only with the two actors together, but on the ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | Finchley was from 1959 to 1992 the Parliamentary constituency of | , British Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990. Finchley is now covered by the ... |
| Thales | ... ought against Cyaxares, king of Media, a solar eclipse took place (see also | ); hostilities were suspended, peace concluded, and the Halys fixed as the ... |
| Christopher Ehret | ... oasiatic: Semitic, Egyptian, Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, and Omotic. However, | (1979), Harold Fleming (1981), and Joseph Greenberg (1981) all agree that ... |
| Ian Graham | From 1970 onwards, | made numerous visits to Yaxchilan and recorded the inscriptions there. The ... |
| Alfred Kinsey | ... sire. It was first published in Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) by | , Wardell Pomeroy and others, and was also prominent in the complementary ... |
| Alexander Chayanov | Eastern European theorists include Pyotr Stolypin (1862–1911) and | (1888–1939) in Russia; Adolf Wagner (1835–1917), and Karl Oldenberg in Ger ... |
| Arjan Erkel | ... de Craig Bellamy, Gerard Cox, Wouter Bos, Jan Marijnissen, Robert Eenhoorn, | , Dennis van der Geest, DJ Paul Elstak, , Vincent Le Blanc, and Renate Ver ... |
| Ralph Bunche | ... t way," adding that "We hope this ceremony will help in healing the wound." | , Bernadotte's American deputy, succeeded him as U.N. mediator. Bunche was ... |
| Kenneth McIntyre | ... that the islands were charted by Portuguese navigators in the 16th century. | , for example, claimed that Houtman was in possession of Portuguese maps o ... |
| Peter Medawar | ... tually influential friendships with art historian Ernst Gombrich, biologist | , and neuro-scientist John Carew Eccles |
| Michelson's | ... rtz experimented with radio waves in his laboratory. These actions followed | 1881 experiment (precursor to the 1887 Michelson–Morley experiment), which ... |
| Paul Dirac | ... charge, opposite to the +1 electric charge of the proton, was predicted by | in his 1933 Nobel Prize lecture. Dirac received the Nobel Prize for his pr ... |
| Hesychius | ... s used as a symbol in textual criticism for the Alexandrian text-type (from | , its once-supposed editor) |
| Wesley Dodds | ... ell as appearing in the dreams (and at least once on the staircase wall) of | |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | In the fictional world of | 's Middle-earth, Dorthonion ("Land of Pines"), later Taur-nu-Fuin, was a h ... |
| Robert Duvall | ... ga.k.a. False Witness with George Kennedy (1970) and The Outfit (1974) with | . She resumed making live and studio albums under the new management of Al ... |
| Aristotle | ... posed, among the earliest recorded being those of Aristotle and Archimedes. | (384 BC−322 BC) remarked that as the distance decreases, the time needed t ... |
| E.A. Wallis Budge | ... as a result of the work of the Egypt Exploration Fund under the efforts of | . The collection stood at 57,000 objects by 1924. Active support by the Mu ... |
| David Hume | ... pted to reduce the number of distinct ontological categories. For instance, | famously regarded Space and Time as nothing more than psychological facts ... |
| Robert Hetzron | Several scholars, including Harold Fleming and | , have since questioned the traditional inclusion of Beja in Cushitic |
| Bertrand Russell | ... time, homosexual relations among the members were for a time common", wrote | . One of Keynes's greatest loves was the artist Duncan Grant, whom he met ... |
| Milton Berle | ... ayne, Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, or the Beatles. In 1961, Frank Sinatra and | entertained a crowd in Washington by singing, to the tune of "Love and Mar ... |
| Thomas Plante | ... ggested that people could be cured of such behavior through counseling. Dr. | of Stanford University and Santa Clara University wrote on that issue: "Al ... |
| Homer Smith | ... e kidney, but it fell into total disrepute after the elegant experiments of | in the 1930s demonstrated clearly the filtration and secretory mechanisms ... |
| Doctor Light | ... dy Quark was introduced as a survivor of one of the destroyed worlds. A new | , this time heroic and female, was introduced. The former Charlton Comics ... |
| Nell Newman | ... hters: Elinor Teresa (1959), known on screen as Nell Potts and generally as | , Melissa "Lissy" Stewart (1961), and Claire "Clea" Olivia Newman (1965). ... |
| Kathleen Taylor | ... ing the subject from the perspective of neuroscience and social psychology, | suggests that manipulation of the prefrontal cortex activates "brainwashin ... |
| Aristotle | ... been a disciple of Grosseteste. He became a master at Oxford, lecturing on | . There is no evidence he was ever awarded a doctorate — the title Doctor ... |
| Josef Pieprzyk | ... ical attack, termed the "XSL attack", was announced by Nicolas Courtois and | , purporting to show a weakness in the AES algorithm due to its simple des ... |
| Peter Tait | After Hamilton's death, his student | continued promoting quaternions. At this time, quaternions were a mandator ... |
| Mary Jane West-Eberhard | ... logical and other phenotypic novelties. The case for this was argued for by | in her 2003 book Developmental plasticity and evolution |
| Adi Shamir | ... k, by Alex Biryukov, Orr Dunkelman, Nathan Keller, Dmitry Khovratovich, and | , is against AES-256 that uses only two related keys and 2 39 time to reco ... |
| George Bernard Shaw | Many people have criticized the golden rule | ;once said that "the golden rule is that there are no golden rules". Shaw ... |
| Margaret Singer | ... context thought reform was possible without violence or physical coercion. | , who also spent time studying the political brainwashing of Korean prison ... |
| Mario Draghi | ... is headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany. The current President of the ECB is | , former governor of the Bank of Italy |
| William Wilberforce | ... lical Anglican) social reformers who lived around the Common. They included | , Henry Thornton and Zachary Macaulay, father of the historian Thomas Maca ... |
| Robert Boyle | ... , tapestry hangings, embroidered silks and velvet. It was here in 1627 that | The Father of Modern Chemistry, the fourteenth of the Earl's fifteen child ... |
| Charles Thomas Bolton | ... trong candidate for a black hole, Cygnus X-1, was discovered in this way by | , Louise Webster and Paul Murdin in 1972. Some doubt, however, remained du ... |
| Robert W. Taylor | ... ACM. In 2004, he won the Charles Stark Draper Prize along with Alan C. Kay, | , and Charles P. Thacker for their work on Alto. In 2006 he was inducted a ... |
| Stephen Leacock | ... London School of Economics. His tutors at the LSE included Hugh Dalton and | . Horne was dissatisfied there, and through the generosity of an uncle, Au ... |
| George Lakoff | ... lated by a single conceptual metaphor was called an ontological metaphor by | and Mark Johnson, who claimed that such metaphors arising from experience ... |
| Nick Cave | ... music of successful contemporary bands The Waifs and The John Butler Trio. | has been heavily influenced by the country artist Johnny Cash. In 2000, Ca ... |
| Carl Reichenbach | ... regulative force must exist within living matter to maintain its functions. | later developed the theory of Odic force, a form of life-energy that perme ... |
| Alex Biryukov | ... elated-key attack on the 192-bit and 256-bit versions of AES, discovered by | and Dmitry Khovratovich |
| Filippo Turati | ... due to their shared ideological views. He also was already in contact with | , perhaps the most important leader of Italian Socialist Party, whom he al ... |
| Owen Chamberlain | ... d in 1955 by University of California, Berkeley physicists Emilio Segrè and | , for which they were awarded the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics. An antiprot ... |
| Jean Baudrillard | ... inguistic realm that "There is nothing outside the text"; at the same time, | theorised that signs and symbols or simulacra mask reality (and eventually ... |
| Johann Radon | ... to 1917 where the invention of Radon Transform by an Austrian mathematician | . He showed mathematically that a function could be reconstructed from an ... |
| Jacob Bronowski | ... ulian Barratt, Stanley Baxter, Andy Bell, Arthur Boyd, Sarah Blackwood, Sir | , Craig Charles, Sir Clifford Curzon, Ray Davies, Noel Fielding, Roger Fry ... |
| Chaumian | ... lists such as "cypherpunks" and "dbs", and eventually implementing patented | digital cash in an underground library, HINDE, with Ian Goldberg, named af ... |
| Marija Gimbutas | ... and Northern Europe. This hypothesis contradicted the work of archaeologist | who, as early as 1958 in an article entitled "Culture Change in Europe at ... |
| Russell W. Porter | In the United States in the early 1920s articles in Popular Astronomy by | and in Scientific American by Albert G. Ingalls featuring Porter and the S ... |
| Karl Popper | ... o you. Their tastes may not be the same" (Maxims for Revolutionists; 1903). | wrote: "The golden rule is a good standard which is further improved by do ... |
| Tim Berners-Lee | In 1980, physicist | , who was a contractor at CERN, proposed and prototyped ENQUIRE, a system ... |
| Willard Boyle | ... Picturephone (TM). The Charge-coupled device (CCD) was invented in 1969 by | and George E. Smith, for which they were awarded the . In the 1960s, the N ... |
| René Descartes | ... nds occupy a different category of beings from physical objects. Some, like | , have thought that this is so (this view is known as dualism, and functio ... |
| Kenneth G. Wilson | ... fined states of a gauge theory. It was introduced by the Nobel prize winner | and is treated in a separate article |
| Archimedes | Before 212 BC, | had developed a method to derive a finite answer for the sum of infinitely ... |
| Wolfgang Butzkamm | ... erance that they are unable to produce in the target language (as, e.g., in | 's concept of enlightened monolingualism), then it has the advantages that ... |
| Ivan Sutherland | ... eering, earning a Master's degree and a Ph.D. degree. There, he worked with | , who had done pioneering graphics programs including Sketchpad. This grea ... |
| Carl Sagan | | , an astronomer, proposed the planetary engineering of Venus in an article ... |
| Nicholas Mercator | ... e same value of 53 equal temperament discovered by the German mathematician | [1620–1687], i.e. 3 53 /2 84 ) |
| Jean-Pierre Changeux | ... s) depended on specific genetic mutations. In 1961, however, Jacques Monod, | and François Jacob discovered within the bacterium Escherichia coli a gene ... |
| Clyde Coombs | The Coombs' method (or the Coombs rule) is a voting system created by | used for single-winner elections in which each voter rank the candidates i ... |
| Philip Zimbardo | ... emble the original political brainwashing theories with some minor changes. | discusses mind control as "the process by which individual or collective f ... |
| Paul Gebhard | In response, | , Kinsey's successor as director of the Kinsey Institute for Sex Research, ... |
| Sergey Korolyov | ... Leading Russian rocket-engine designer Valentin Glushko and rocket designer | studied Tsiolkovsky's works as youths, and both sought to turn Tsiolkovsky ... |
| Jernej Kopitar | ... he became influenced by the works of the Slovenian philologist and linguist | . He abandoned law, devoting most of his later life to the study of Slavic ... |
| Adi Shamir | In October 2005, Dag Arne Osvik, | and Eran Tromer presented a paper demonstrating several cache-timing attac ... |
| Luigi Einaudi | ... on inflation in Italy during and after World War I. Notably, his tutor was | , one of the most important Italian economists and later a president of th ... |
| William Losh | ... s and were much less liable to crack under the weight of heavy locomotives. | of Walker Ironworks had thought that he had an agreement with Stephenson t ... |
| Ken Thompson | ... e UNIX operating system (also developed at Bell Laboratories by Ritchie and | ). Additionally, the AWK programming language was designed and implemented ... |
| John Wesley Powell | ... tales strengthened their credibility. In 1869, one-armed Civil War veteran | led an expedition from Green River Station in Wyoming, aiming to run the t ... |
| Tim Bray | ... lized Markup Language). The co-editors of the specification were originally | and Michael Sperberg-McQueen. Halfway through the project Bray accepted a ... |
| Erasistratus | ... ather he believed there was a vital force that powered the human body. Like | he believed a vital force was absorbed through the lungs from the air |
| David Wheeler | ... his Turing Award Lecture in 1993, Lampson himself attributes this saying to | |
| James Callaghan | ... governments of Harold Wilson, Edward Heath, Harold Wilson's second term and | . The project was finally revealed by Margaret Thatcher's then defence min ... |
| Dimitri Nanopoulos | ... anolis Andronikos, Michael Dertouzos, John Argyris, Panagiotis Kondylis and | |
| Marlon Brando | ... lm for which he will always be remembered—an adaptation of Dracula starring | as Dracula and Martin Sheen as Jonathan Harker. (Yes, it is Apocalypse Now ... |
| William James | Under the influence of C.S. Peirce and | , Putnam also became convinced that there is no fact–value dichotomy; that ... |
| Imre Lakatos | ... od at the London School of Economics and there lectured and influenced both | and Paul Feyerabend, two of the foremost philosophers of science in the ne ... |
| Plato | ... uspicious day Ficino had chosen to publish his translations of the works of | from Greek into Latin under Lorenzo’s enthusiastic patronage. Giovanni app ... |
| Benjamin Franklin | ... ritish colonies in North America in 1765, where it was first grown for hay. | wrote a letter in 1770 mentioning sending soybeans home from England. Soyb ... |
| Valentin Glushko | ... by von Braun's comments and notes." Leading Russian rocket-engine designer | and rocket designer Sergey Korolyov studied Tsiolkovsky's works as youths, ... |
| Roland Barthes | ... ists such as Louis Althusser and Michel Foucault and structuralists such as | challenged the possibilities of individual agency and the coherence of the ... |
| Alexander Hamilton | ... the nominal command of William S. Hamilton, a militia colonel and a son of | . Hamilton would prove to be an unfortunate choice to lead the force; hist ... |
| Matteo Ricci | ... ubts have been cast on Polo’s claims). The famous Roman Catholic missionary | travelled from Nanjing to Beijing on the canal at the end of 16th century |
| Brian Kernighan | ... language was designed and implemented by Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and | of Bell Laboratories |
| Jacques Monod | ... ies of organisms) depended on specific genetic mutations. In 1961, however, | , Jean-Pierre Changeux and François Jacob discovered within the bacterium ... |
| Plato | ... rojan War, the central character and the greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad. | named Achilles the most handsome of the heroes assembled against Troy |
| Thomas Carlyle | ... ida Dutton Scudder compared the poem with socialist ideas from the works of | , John Ruskin, and the Fabians |
| Michael Sperberg-McQueen | ... ng Group. A record of design decisions and their rationales was compiled by | on December 4, 1997. James Clark served as Technical Lead of the Working G ... |
| Bertrand Russell | ... given time, just because it is not in motion in any instant of that time." | offered what is known as the "at-at theory of motion". It agrees that ther ... |
| Noam Chomsky | ... list theories of language acquisition dovetail with linguistic work done by | and others. These have led to a wider variety of teaching methods ranging ... |
| Magneto's | ... period of general turmoil and a number of attacks by superhumans, including | Acolytes who were unwilling to forgive the former Genoshan government for ... |
| Michel Foucault | Antihumanists such as Louis Althusser and | and structuralists such as Roland Barthes challenged the possibilities of ... |
| Georgius Agricola | By | 's time, the term had become a generic term for all of the sulfide mineral ... |
| George Herbert Mead | ... ago where he became a doctoral student in philosophy under the direction of | . Morris completed his dissertation on a symbolic theory of mind and recei ... |
| Aristotle | Category came into use with | 's essay Categories, in which he discussed univocal and equivocal terms, p ... |
| Jean Piaget | ... of Lisp optimized for educational use. This led him to learn of the work of | , Jerome Bruner, Lev Vygotsky, and of Constructionist learning. These furt ... |
| John Wilkins | In 1648 | cites Busbecq, the Austrian ambassador to Constantinople 1554-1562, as rec ... |
| Ptolemy | ... the sense of "ascendant" and "observation of the ascendant" is in use since | (Tetrabiblos 33, 75) |
| Pierre Schaeffer | ... e Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) in 1969, then under the direction of | ("father" of musique concrète), proved hugely influential. Jarre was intro ... |
| Joseph Bell | ... in, and his anonymous narrator, and basing his character Sherlock Holmes on | , who in his use of "" prefigured Poirot's reliance on his "little grey ce ... |
| Wouter Bos | Notable supporters of Feyenoord include Craig Bellamy, Gerard Cox, | , Jan Marijnissen, Robert Eenhoorn, Arjan Erkel, Dennis van der Geest, DJ ... |
| Alfred Tarski | ... ave learnt more from you than from any other living thinker, except perhaps | ." Popper dedicated his Conjectures and Refutations to Hayek. For his part ... |
| Maxwell | The most dramatic prediction of | 's theory of electromagnetism, published in 1865, was the existence of ele ... |
| George E. Smith | ... . The Charge-coupled device (CCD) was invented in 1969 by Willard Boyle and | , for which they were awarded the . In the 1960s, the New York City site w ... |
| Hilbert | ... century, known as Smale's problems. This list was compiled in the spirit of | 's famous list of problems produced in 1900. In fact, Smale's list contain ... |
| Magneto | The United Nations ceded the island nation to the powerful mutant | , after he demanded an entire mutants-only nation. Magneto and his Acolyte ... |
| Michael Sperberg-McQueen | ... Language). The co-editors of the specification were originally Tim Bray and | . Halfway through the project Bray accepted a consulting engagement with N ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... his trip he also met Comte de Volney. He also met presidents John Adams and | . He and Jefferson discussed the need to introduce American agriculture to ... |
| B. V. Derjaguin | ... ed to be zero. Similar to this theory, however using different assumptions, | , V. M. Muller and Y. P. Toporov published another theory in 1975, which c ... |
| Eva Hesse | ... Darby Bannard, Lynda Benglis, Dan Christensen, Larry Zox, Ronnie Landfield, | , Keith Sonnier, Richard Serra, Sam Gilliam, Mario Merz, Peter Reginato we ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... lson's second term and James Callaghan. The project was finally revealed by | 's then defence minister Francis Pym. The reasons for revelation were both ... |
| Franz Bopp | ... ary of Vienna, where he remained to 1862. In 1844, he published a review of | 's book Comparative Grammar, which attracted attention from the Viennese a ... |
| François Jacob | ... enetic mutations. In 1961, however, Jacques Monod, Jean-Pierre Changeux and | discovered within the bacterium Escherichia coli a gene that functioned on ... |
| Dennis Ritchie | ... the Bell Laboratories as part of the personal computing revolution. In 1970 | developed the compiled C programming language as a replacement for the int ... |
| John Dewey | ... with the pragmatists, Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, and especially | , pragmatic ethics holds that moral correctness evolves similarly to scien ... |
| Seymour Papert | In 1968, he met | and learned of the Logo programming language, a dialect of Lisp optimized ... |
| Dorothy Tennov | Limerence is a term coined c. 1977 by the psychologist | to describe an involuntary state of mind which seems to result from a roma ... |
| Henry Fonda | ... l like to refilm a scene from The Letter to which Davis nodded. Jane Fonda, | , Natalie Wood and Olivia de Havilland were among the actors who paid trib ... |
| Friedrich Hayek | ... f influence, Popper had a long-standing and close friendship with economist | , who was also brought to the London School of Economics from Vienna. Each ... |
| Marc H. Bornstein | According to | , and William E. Paden, the Golden Rule is arguably the most essential bas ... |
| William James | Associated with the pragmatists, Charles Sanders Peirce, | , and especially John Dewey, pragmatic ethics holds that moral correctness ... |
| Dennis Gabor | ... thought, starting with Haar's work in the early 20th century. Later work by | yielded Gabor atoms (1946), which are constructed similarly to wavelets, a ... |
| Henry Fairfield Osborn | Albertosaurus was named by | in a one-page note at the end of his 1905 description of Tyrannosaurus rex ... |
| Adam Smith | In 1776, | published the paper An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of ... |
| Michael Dertouzos | ... ap test), Nicholas Negroponte, Constantin Carathéodory, Manolis Andronikos, | , John Argyris, Panagiotis Kondylis and Dimitri Nanopoulos |
| Che Guevara | ... . Hans Werner Henze's Das Floß der Medusa, written in 1968 as a requiem for | , is properly speaking an oratorio; Henze's Requiem is instrumental but re ... |
| Vladimir Nabokov | ... "cyberspace", from Neuromancer by William Gibson; "nymphet" from Lolita by | |
| Indiana Jones | ... e Township High). Actor Harrison Ford known as playing the lead role in the | movies, went to Maine East, and has been credited as being the radio stati ... |
| Apion | ... eeks. Some anti-Judean allegations ascribed by Josephus to the Greek writer | , and myths accredited to Manetho are also addressed |
| Henry Moseley | ... implies that it must be placed before the reactive alkali metal potassium. | later solved this problem by showing that the periodic table is actually a ... |
| Charles Sanders Peirce | | , who had read Kant closely and who also had some knowledge of Aristotle, ... |
| Leonard Bloomfield | ... . Examples of researchers on the empiricist side are Jesperson, Palmer, and | , who promote mimicry and memorization with pattern drills. These methods ... |
| Rolf Nevanlinna | ... tional Mathematical Union IMU and named to honour the Finnish mathematician | who had died a year earlier. The award consists of a gold medal and cash p ... |
| Plato | These four studies compose the secondary part of the curriculum outlined by | in The Republic, and are described in the seventh book of that work |
| Charles Fellows | In 1840 the Museum became involved in its first overseas excavations, | 's expedition to Xanthos, in Asia Minor, whence came remains of the tombs ... |
| David Hume | ... erning Human Understanding is a book by the Scottish empiricist philosopher | , published in 1748. It was a revision of an earlier effort, Hume's A Trea ... |
| John Scott Haldane | ... ilar ideas, as well as the physicists Walter M. Elsasser and Eugene Wigner. | adopted an anti-mechanist approach to biology and an idealist philosophy e ... |
| Maurice Wilkins | ... of King's College London, given to them by Gosling and Franklin's colleague | ), Watson and Crick together developed a model for a helical structure of ... |
| Adam Smith | In the 18th century, | declared that China had been one of the most prosperous nations in the wor ... |
| Agner Krarup Erlang | | , a Danish engineer who worked for the Copenhagen Telephone Exchange, publ ... |
| Giovanni Villani | ... uch as the poet Fazio degli Uberti (circa 1309–1367), the famous chronicler | (c. 1275–1348), and Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375), who wrote that the Bre ... |
| Leonardo da Vinci | In the 16th century, scientist and artist | compared metabolism to a burning candle. In 1747, Dr. James Lind, a physic ... |
| Bill Oddie | Garden, along with Tim Brooke-Taylor and | , became a co-writer and performer in the comedy series The Goodies (1970– ... |
| Manuel Gamio | The Mexican archeologist and anthropologist | reported in 1930 that the term "chicamo" (with an "m") was used as a derog ... |
| Leonard Kleinrock | ... sed in modern packet switching networks was performed in the early 1960s by | |
| Vere Gordon Childe | ... thic Revolution, a term coined in the 1920s by the Australian archaeologist | |
| Boethius | ... iis of Martianus Capella, although the term "quadrivium" was not used until | early in the sixth century. As Proclus wrote |
| William Bartram | ... he intersection of three important Cherokee trails. Explorer and naturalist | came through the Dividings in May, 1775 while exploring what would later b ... |
| Joseph Liouville | A classical theorem of | called Liouville's theorem shows the higher-dimensions have less varied co ... |
| Carsten Niebuhr | ... known as someone knowledgeable on Islamic coins. He was later approached by | to identify the coins which he brought with him from his travels. But Reis ... |
| René Lemarchand | For a concise general description of the FAZ in the 1990s, see | , The dynamics of violence in Central Africa, University of Pennsylvania P ... |
| Adam Smith | ... survive outside of the system containing all of the specialized components. | described economic specialization in his classic work, The Wealth of Natio ... |
| Hocquenghem | ... hat are constructed using finite fields. BCH codes were invented in 1959 by | , and independently in 1960 by Bose and Ray-Chaudhuri. The abbreviation BC ... |
| Plato | The Greek philosopher, | (429–347 BC), identified her with the Libyan deity Neith, the war goddess ... |
| Proclus | ... erm "quadrivium" was not used until Boethius early in the sixth century. As | wrote |
| J.H. van't Hoff | ... re of benzene by August Kekulé, the theory of the asymmetric carbon atom by | , and the reform of chemical nomenclature by Adolf von Baeyer, resulted in ... |
| David Hume | ... Locke , Spinoza , Giambattista Vico (1984 xli), and Rousseau (1997 part 1). | made what he considered to be the first proper attempt at trying to apply ... |
| Alcuin | ... astica gentis Anglorum; the Historia Brittonum, a Welsh source; the Life of | ; and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. It is also clear from the text that Asser ... |
| Averroes | ... text of Judeo-Islamic political philosophy as in the works of Alfarabi and | ; this did not happen in the Christian world, where Aristotle's Politics w ... |
| Stephen Oppenheimer | ... nd the conclusion has been questioned even by the authors themselves and by | , who pointed out that much earlier migrations, 5000 to 10,000 years ago f ... |
| Daniel Bernoulli | ... university, the University of Basel, dating from 1460. Erasmus, Paracelsus, | , Leonhard Euler, Jacob Burckhardt, and Friedrich Nietzsche worked here. M ... |
| Milton Friedman | ... along with other three left-wing intellectuals, in with the known economist | , who was in Iceland to give a lecture on the "tyranny of the status quo" ... |
| Anaxagoras | Around 475 BC, | stated that food is absorbed by the human body and therefore contained "ho ... |
| Edward Teller | ... s now called the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory by a team headed by | and Harold Brown. The Navy accepted delivery of the first 16 warheads in J ... |
| Stephen Harper | ... stered with Elections Canada, and on March 20, 2004, former Alliance leader | was elected as leader of the party. The new party was dubbed "the Alliance ... |
| John Scott Haldane | By the 1930s vitalism had fallen out of favour by most biologists. In 1931 | stated |
| Leonhard Euler | ... iversity of Basel, dating from 1460. Erasmus, Paracelsus, Daniel Bernoulli, | , Jacob Burckhardt, and Friedrich Nietzsche worked here. More recently, it ... |
| Nicholas Negroponte | ... nclude Dimitrios Galanos, Georgios Papanikolaou (inventor of the Pap test), | , Constantin Carathéodory, Manolis Andronikos, Michael Dertouzos, John Arg ... |
| Corrado Gini | ... tatistical dispersion developed by the Italian statistician and sociologist | and published in his 1912 paper "Variability and Mutability" |
| Constantin Carathéodory | ... nos, Georgios Papanikolaou (inventor of the Pap test), Nicholas Negroponte, | , Manolis Andronikos, Michael Dertouzos, John Argyris, Panagiotis Kondylis ... |
| Raymond Gosling | ... y of Cambridge, England. Using "Photo 51" (the X-ray diffraction results of | and Rosalind Franklin of King's College London, given to them by Gosling a ... |
| Albert Einstein | ... the individual's capacity to judge his or her fatherland's foreign policy. | stated that "Nationalism is an infantile disease... It is the measles of m ... |
| Nouriel Roubini | ... ons of pessimism may be used to silence legitimate criticism. The economist | was largely dismissed as a pessimist, for his dire but accurate prediction ... |
| Théophile de Donder | ... l name for this quantity, the "affinity", symbolized by A, as introduced by | in 1923. The minus sign comes from the fact the affinity was defined to re ... |
| Descartes | ... n, as we are in thought by the laws of logic." This position is advanced by | . It has the theological advantage of making God prior to the laws of logi ... |
| Antoine Lavoisier | Around 1770, | , the "Father of Nutrition and Chemistry" discovered the details of metabo ... |
| Carol Channing | ... rmed both at his own decision and as an assignment in games. These included | , Elvis Presley, John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Steve Irwin and Christopher Ll ... |
| Jerome Bruner | ... ized for educational use. This led him to learn of the work of Jean Piaget, | , Lev Vygotsky, and of Constructionist learning. These further influenced ... |
| Morris Kline | ... ber in space, music number in time, and astronomy number in space and time. | classifies the four elements of the quadrivium as pure (arithmetic), stati ... |
| John George Kemeny | In 1970, longtime professor of mathematics and computer science | became president of Dartmouth. Kemeny oversaw several major changes at the ... |
| Jan Smuts | ... interpretation alone. Another scientist who held a similar view to this was | who took a holistic approach to science and offered a compromise between m ... |
| Lev Vygotsky | ... ional use. This led him to learn of the work of Jean Piaget, Jerome Bruner, | , and of Constructionist learning. These further influenced his views |
| Hans Bethe | ... le. The CNO-I process was independently proposed by Carl von Weizsäcker and | in 1938 and 1939, respectively |
| Bill Oddie | ... d performer in the comedy series Broaden Your Mind with Tim Brooke-Taylor ( | joined the series for the second season) |
| Brainiac | ... he Flash (Barry Allen), Earth-2 Superman, the Anti-Monitor, Lex Luthor, and | . The third and final wave included action figure representations of Earth ... |
| Rosalind Franklin | ... and. Using "Photo 51" (the X-ray diffraction results of Raymond Gosling and | of King's College London, given to them by Gosling and Franklin's colleagu ... |
| Ferdinand Hurter | ... Hurter and Driffield (H&D), originally described in 1890, by the Swiss-born | (1844–1898) and British Vero Charles Driffield (1848–1915) |
| Auguste Comte's | ... ction of the ethical doctrine of altruism—which she defined in the sense of | altruism (he coined the term), as a moral obligation to live for the sake ... |
| Rob Pike | ... stems by Peter Fraser. A University of Toronto team consisting of Tom Duff, | , Hugh Redelmeier, and David Tilbrook implemented a version of QED that ru ... |
| Stevin, Simon | ... reform in Belgium - State University of Leuven - Stekene - Stella Artois - | - Stouthuysen, Bob - Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europ |
| Lyon Playfair | ... there in 1843. A new opportunity arose in 1845, when he became assistant to | at the new Museum of Economic Geology in London, where he became a close f ... |
| Sir John Sinclair | ... nd as early as 1669 and was described in France in 1700. It was asserted by | in his Husbandry of Scotland to have been introduced to Scotland around 17 ... |
| Edward H. Chamberlin | ... on of Economic Activity (1948). Other important early publications include: | 's (1950) The Theory of Monopolistic Competition ; François Perroux's (195 ... |
| Ptolemy | ... works of cosmology from Constantinople, including Aristotle's De caelo and | 's Almagest were translated into Arabic in the House of Wisdom in Baghdad |
| Manolis Andronikos | ... u (inventor of the Pap test), Nicholas Negroponte, Constantin Carathéodory, | , Michael Dertouzos, John Argyris, Panagiotis Kondylis and Dimitri Nanopou ... |
| Sir Arthur Evans | ... ndon and the Society of Antiquaries in memory of Augustus Wollaston Franks. | doubled the amount of money that went with the studentship, paying out of ... |
| Pythagoras | ... oclea – Delphic priestess of the 6th century BC, said to have been tutor to | General:*Greek art*List of traditional Greek place name |
| Mundale | ... entation in the neurosciences would be impossible. According to Bechtel and | , to be able to conduct such research in the neurosciences, universal cons ... |
| John Searle | ... nt. However, there have been other criticisms. The Chinese room argument by | (1980) is a direct attack on the claim that thought can be represented as ... |
| Rogers Brubaker | ... e idea of the Jewish diaspora, he recognised the expanding use of the term. | (2005) also notes that use of the term diaspora has been widening. He sugg ... |
| Emanuel Swedenborg | Both Michael Servetus and | have been interpreted as being proponents of Modalism. Neither, however, d ... |
| Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo | ... onal Capital Region Command is in Metro Manila and was created by President | to defend the metropolis from insurgents and terrorist groups. Philippine ... |
| William McDougall | ... vers worked with two of his graduate medical students, Charles S. Myers and | who assisted him at this period in a series of experiments on vision and w ... |
| Jean Bodin | ... of the coronation of Meinhard II of Tyrol in 1286. It is also mentioned in | 's book Six livres de la République in 1576 |
| Alfred Fowler | ... ent, and devoted himself to the study of spectroscopy (following his mentor | ), especially its applications in astronomy. He was elected a Fellow of th ... |
| Rupert Sheldrake | ... nd an advocate of vitalism is very rare, however the work of the biochemist | has been described as vitalistic. In 1981 in his book A New Science of Lif ... |
| Bertrand Russell | ... heir historical link with past wars, especially in Germany. Famous pacifist | criticizes nationalism for diminishing the individual's capacity to judge ... |
| Niels Bohr | A number of physicists began to advocate vitalism. | was one of the first to suggest that special laws not found in inanimate m ... |
| Christian J. Lambertsen | ... reating oxygen as if it were as narcotic as nitrogen, following research by | et al. in 1977 and 1978 |
| Thomas Jefferson | Madeira was a favorite of | , and it was used to toast the Declaration of Independence. George Washing ... |
| Pomerance | ... is excluded in the definition of a Fermat pseudoprime given by Crandall and | |
| Adam Smith | ... ecognized as an intangible quality of persons in economics back to at least | . He distinguished it (as "enterprise") from labour which can be coerced a ... |
| Rupert Murdoch | ... Corporation when the warehouses started to be converted into luxury flats. | moved his News International printing and publishing works into Wapping in ... |
| Charles Darwin | ... to think and behave independently. The Emperor accepted new ideas, such as | 's theory of evolution, of which he remarked that "the laws that he [Darwi ... |
| Aristotle | ... iphate, most of the Greek works of cosmology from Constantinople, including | 's De caelo and Ptolemy's Almagest were translated into Arabic in the Hous ... |
| Cartan | ... e product" of this algebra, producing the "structure constants" f abc . The | -derivative of the field form (i.e. essentially the divergence of the fiel ... |
| Buffon | ... frequent visits to the home of a relation where he could borrow volumes of | 's massive Histoire Naturelle. All of these he read and re-read, retaining ... |
| Charles H. Percy | ... t Helms in charge of the Foreign Relations Committee instead of the liberal | , he instead became chairman of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Fore ... |
| Cyril Wecht | ... the coroner labeled the death "reserved," Smith hired forensic pathologist | to perform a second autopsy |
| David Hume | ... influenced Francis Bacon , Marchamont Needham , Harrington , John Milton , | , and many others (Strauss 1958) |
| Ilya Prigogine | ... onal chemical thermodynamics are either at equilibrium or near equilibrium. | developed the thermodynamic treatment of open systems that are far from eq ... |
| Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link | The genus was first described in the scientific literature by | in his 1809 work Observationes in ordines plantarum naturales. Link includ ... |
| Charles Bendire | ... tors would go to extreme lengths to obtain eggs of rare birds. For example, | was willing to have his teeth broken to remove a rare egg that became stuc ... |
| Niklaus Wirth | ... op-down design was promoted in the 1970s by IBM researcher Harlan Mills and | . Mills developed structured programming concepts for practical use and te ... |
| William Murdoch | ... er system in modern times, which was designed and installed by the engineer | . Leamington became a popular spa resort attracting the wealthy and famous ... |
| Richard Owen | Sir | and Alfred Newton both wanted to be the first to describe the post-cranial ... |
| Leonardo da Vinci | ... committee of 30 Florentine citizens that comprised many artists, including | and Sandro Botticelli, to decide on an appropriate site for David. While n ... |
| Yury Luzhkov | ... ch controversy, following attempts by Valentina Zhilenkova and Moscow mayor | , to have them flown to Moscow for interment in the Novodevichy Cemetery. ... |
| Erwin Schrödinger | ... gous to the laws of physics except for their being restricted to organisms. | supported similar ideas, as well as the physicists Walter M. Elsasser and ... |
| Friedrich Wöhler | ... f Göttingen in the spring of 1838 in order to study with the famous chemist | |
| Albert R. Behnke | In 1939, | and O. D. Yarborough demonstrated that gases other than nitrogen also coul ... |
| Robert Bunsen | In 1842 he became an assistant to | at the University of Marburg; he took his doctoral degree there in 1843. A ... |
| Vladimir Lenin | ... ord that was named after a newspaper published by the Russian revolutionary | |
| James D. Watson | Late in 1951, Crick started working with | at Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, England. Using "Ph ... |
| Ernest Solvay | ... he village was given the name Solvay, New York to commemorate its inventor, | . In 1861, he developed the ammonia-soda process for the manufacture of so ... |
| Conny Palm | ... d was taken offline on September 22, 1954. The engineers on the team led by | were Harry Freese, Gösta Neovius, Olle Karlqvist, Carl-Erik Fröberg, G. Ke ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | Treebeard (Sindarin: Fangorn) is a fictional character from | 's Middle-earth fantasy writings. The eldest of the species of Ents, he is ... |
| Benjamin Franklin | ... e are rewarded or punished by God for their behavior in life. Some, such as | , believed in reincarnation or resurrection. Others such as Thomas Paine w ... |
| Alexander Hamilton | ... nd it was used to toast the Declaration of Independence. George Washington, | , Benjamin Franklin and John Adams are also said to have appreciated the q ... |
| Oliver Stone | The film was written by | and Richard Boyle, and was directed by Stone. Stone's portrayal is sympath ... |
| Martin Davis | ... , Putnam has contributed to mathematics and computer science. Together with | he developed the Davis–Putnam algorithm for the Boolean satisfiability pro ... |
| Wangari Maathai | ... ding the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, environmentalist | |
| Alfred Newton | Sir Richard Owen and | both wanted to be the first to describe the post-cranial anatomy of the do ... |
| Thomas Edison | ... olished in 1969 to make way for the current pool. Franklin D. Roosevelt and | both traveled through Sylva, Edison in 1911 and FDR in 1936, respectively |
| Aryabhata | The works of the classical Indian astronomer and mathematician, | (476-550 AD), deal with the sphericity of the Earth and the motion of the ... |
| Walter M. Elsasser | ... nisms. Erwin Schrödinger supported similar ideas, as well as the physicists | and Eugene Wigner |
| Russell W. Porter | ... The most popular telescope design is the Newtonian reflector, described by | as “The Poor Man's Telescope”. The Newtonian has the advantage of being a ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... lano's departure the irony that his final issue was handed in the week that | was forced out of office |
| Hyginus | ... grew up to become Semiramis, the Assyrian queen. In another story, told by | , an egg fell from the sky into the Euphrates, was rolled onto land by fis ... |
| Lisa Randall | ... reated and/or reinforced in scientific and academic institutions. Physicist | , appointed to a task force at Harvard by then-president Lawrence Summers ... |
| Ferdinand Lundberg | ... orrespondents" in London, Paris, Venice, Rome, Berlin, etc. Another critic, | , extended the criticism in Imperial Hearst (1936), charging that Hearst p ... |
| Paul Harteck | ... of the stable isomer form of liquid hydrogen, parahydrogen was achieved by | and Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer in 1929 |
| Georg Cantor | ... breaks down when dealing with infinite sets. In the late nineteenth century | , Gottlob Frege, Richard Dedekind and others rejected the view of Galileo ... |
| Sir Michael Foster | ... special senses displayed by the candidates; it was in reaction to this that | , who had seen the potential in this shy, retiring Bart's man, appointed R ... |
| Karl Marx | ... taste for the classics of French literature as well as for the writings of | |
| Lawrence Summers | ... sicist Lisa Randall, appointed to a task force at Harvard by then-president | after his controversial discussion of why women may be underrepresented in ... |
| Benjamin Franklin | ... ast the Declaration of Independence. George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, | and John Adams are also said to have appreciated the qualities of Madeira. ... |
| Evan Davis | ... which she seemed critical of some of his decisions. Regular Today presenter | commented that "She shouldn't be guest editing; she should be permanently ... |
| Marlon Brando | ... mpany (Fogwood Films) producing, Columbia agreed. But, Columbia then wanted | , or someone with "greater box-office allure," to play the part of Murphy, ... |
| Edith Evans | ... Berkeley in his "The Lady with the Lamp", premiering in London in 1929 with | in the title role. This does not portray her as an entirely sympathetic ch ... |
| Nikolai Chernykh | A minor planet 2859 Paganini discovered in 1978 by Soviet astronomer | is named after him |
| Gottlob Frege | ... en dealing with infinite sets. In the late nineteenth century Georg Cantor, | , Richard Dedekind and others rejected the view of Galileo (which derived ... |
| Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer | ... omer form of liquid hydrogen, parahydrogen was achieved by Paul Harteck and | in 1929 |
| Ruth Hubbard | ... within and between the social and natural worlds." Some feminists, such as | and Evelyn Fox Keller, criticize traditional scientific discourse as being ... |
| Heraclitus | Deistic thinking has existed since ancient times. Among the Ancient Greeks, | conceived of a logos, a supreme rational principle, and said the wisdom "b ... |
| Marlon Brando | ... ure is named Dio Brando, in tribute to both Ronnie James Dio and movie star | |
| Eugene Wigner | ... r supported similar ideas, as well as the physicists Walter M. Elsasser and | |
| Edward Drinker Cope | ... two skulls were assigned to the preexisting species Laelaps incrassatus by | in 1892, although the name Laelaps was preoccupied by a genus of mite and ... |
| Benjamin Franklin | In American history important spokesmen included | , Thomas Jefferson, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur (1735–1813), and John ... |
| Leonardo da Vinci | ... ienced in this kind of work might examine it and express an opinion. Though | and others were consulted, it was Michelangelo, only twenty-six years old, ... |
| Paul Boyer | In the 1960s through the 1970s, | developed the binding change, or flip-flop, mechanism, which postulated th ... |
| Steve Irwin | ... s. These included Carol Channing, Elvis Presley, John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, | and Christopher Lloyd's character in Taxi, Jim Ignatowski. He made his dis ... |
| Jerry Fodor | ... ns. The problems with this position have been described by Michael Dummett, | , Ernest Lepore, and others. In the first place, they suggest that, if sem ... |
| Bill Oddie | ... den was co-writer and performer in the comedy series Twice a Fortnight with | , Terry Jones, Michael Palin and Jonathan Lynn |
| Robert Hübner | ... ; for example, in 1973 he accepted the Soviets' demand that Bent Larsen and | , the two strongest non-Soviet contenders (Fischer was now champion), shou ... |
| Plato | ... rough all things" was "both willing and unwilling to be called Zeus (God)". | envisaged God as a Demiurge or 'craftsman'. Outside ancient Greece many ot ... |
| Evelyn Fox Keller | ... en the social and natural worlds." Some feminists, such as Ruth Hubbard and | , criticize traditional scientific discourse as being historically biased ... |
| Aristotle | ... mesis or representation. Art as mimesis has deep roots in the philosophy of | . Goethe defined art as an other resp. a second nature, according to his i ... |
| Pier Paolo Pasolini | ... d Alexandra after Olivier recommended him for the part. He also appeared in | 's version of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, released in 1972, as a young ... |
| Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire | ... ury, and opposing the evolutionary theories of Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck and | . His most famous work is Le Règne Animal (1817; English: The Animal Kingd ... |
| Hans Wiegel | ... ction polls showed losses for the VVD; the former VVD deputy Prime Minister | blamed a poor VVD campaign for this, caused by the heavily contested VVD l ... |
| Carl Jung | ... over the other vitalistic theories. The work of Reinke was an influence for | |
| Ashley Montagu | According to | , "The Mongoloid skull has proceeded further than in any other people. |
| Marija Gimbutas | ... iginated in the Near East and then spread to Europe. He also excavated with | at Sitagroi in Greece |
| Regiomontanus | ... icus and decided to seek him out. From Petreius Rheticus was given works by | and others, intended as presents for Copernicus. He went on to Peter Apian ... |
| Justus von Liebig | ... und angewandten Chemie (Dictionary of Pure and Applied Chemistry) edited by | , Wöhler, and Johann Christian Poggendorff, and he also wrote an important ... |
| Chris Lintott | ... 0th episode of The Sky at Night hosted by Sir Patrick Moore, along with Dr. | , Jon Culshaw, Prof. Brian Cox, and the Astronomer Royal Martin Rees who o ... |
| Claude Shannon | ... es of his/her color. It was invented by "the father of information theory", | . A rectangular grid is commonly used for the graph; in this form the game ... |
| Imre Lakatos | ... e, several decades before Gray's criticism, in reply to a critical essay by | |
| Benjamin Franklin | ... census. The city is the county seat of Heard County. The town is named for | |
| Donald B. Redford | The Egyptologist | observed that although Necho II was "a man of action from the start, and e ... |
| Liberty Hyde Bailey | ... (1817–1862). After 1890 came philosopher Josiah Royce (1855–1916), botanist | (1858–1954), the Southern Agrarians of the 1920s and 1930s, novelist John ... |
| Immanuel Wallerstein | ... aintain this amounts to a de facto control over less powerful nations ('see | 's World Systems Theory') |
| Julian Lombardi | ... arted, along with David A. Smith, David P. Reed, Andreas Raab, Rick McGeer, | , and Mark McCahill, the Croquet Project, which is an open source networke ... |
| Paul D. Boyer | ... University of Washington. The University also graduated Nobel Prize winner | , as well as Philo Farnsworth (inventor of the electronic television) and ... |
| Euclid | ... ichard Dedekind and others rejected the view of Galileo (which derived from | ) that the whole cannot be the same size as the part. One example of this ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... ection; by finishing in second place, Democratic-Republican Party candidate | , the Federalists' opponent, became the Vice President. This resulted in t ... |
| Plato | ... olini scoured the libraries in search of works by such classical authors as | , Cicero and Vitruvius. The works of ancient Greek and Hellenistic writers ... |
| Isaac Newton | ... sits that pressure is due not to static repulsion between molecules, as was | 's conjecture, but due to collisions between molecules moving at different ... |
| Stephen Harper | ... e split forced Day to call a new leadership convention, and, in April 2002, | defeated Day at the subsequent Canadian Alliance leadership election |
| Ernest Lepore | ... ems with this position have been described by Michael Dummett, Jerry Fodor, | , and others. In the first place, they suggest that, if semantic holism is ... |
| Joseph Pitton de Tournefort | ... ol. The English botanist William Sherard, who studied botany in Paris under | , a pupil of Magnol, was most probably the first after Plumier to adopt th ... |
| Kenneth E. Iverson | ... in A Programming Language, a book describing a notation invented in 1957 by | while at Harvard University. Iverson had developed a mathematical notation ... |
| Alexander Hamilton | ... lectoral victory on the 36th ballot, but only after Federalist Party leader | —who disfavored Burr's personal character more than Jefferson's policies—h ... |
| Steven Chu | ... Hispanic to serve as Energy Secretary was Clinton's second, Federico Peña. | became the first Asian American to hold the position on January 20, 2009, ... |
| Karl Marx | ... initially Romanticism and Historicism, and eventually both the Communism of | , and the modern forms of nationalism inspired by the French Revolution, i ... |
| Oliver James | ... ion is fit only for dumbing down and cultural careerism. Intellectuals like | correlate economic progress with economic inequality, the stimulation of a ... |
| David Gale | ... nly used for the graph; in this form the game was independently invented by | , and has been known as Gale, Bridg-It, and Bird Cage |
| Johann Christian Poggendorff | ... ary of Pure and Applied Chemistry) edited by Justus von Liebig, Wöhler, and | , and he also wrote an important textbook. In 1851 Kolbe succeeded Bunsen ... |
| Julius von Haast | Haast's Eagle was first classified by | in the 1870s, who named it Harpagornis moorei after George Henry Moore, th ... |
| Richard Dedekind | ... infinite sets. In the late nineteenth century Georg Cantor, Gottlob Frege, | and others rejected the view of Galileo (which derived from Euclid) that t ... |
| Joseph Stiglitz | ... l organizations and academics, notably including its former Chief Economist | , who is equally critical of the International Monetary Fund, the US Treas ... |
| John E. Walker | ... synthase generated by rotation of the gamma subunit. The research group of | , then at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, crystalliz ... |
| Alexander Hamilton | ... ng for someone besides Adams (a carefully organized scheme originating with | ) less out of opposition to him than to prevent Adams from matching Washin ... |
| David G. Kendall | ... n Telephone Exchange, published the first paper on queueing theory in 1909. | introduced an A/B/C queueing notation in 1953. Important work on queueing ... |
| Angus Deaton | ... the income of each person (or percentile). Princeton development economist | (1997, 139) simplified the Gini calculation to one easy formula |
| William Sherard | ... alauma", the genus name Magnolia, after Pierre Magnol. The English botanist | , who studied botany in Paris under Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, a pupil o ... |
| Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck | ... eology in the early 19th century, and opposing the evolutionary theories of | and Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. His most famous work is Le Règne Animal (1817; ... |
| Alfred Russel Wallace | ... her vitalistic theories. The work of Reinke was an influence for Carl Jung. | believed qualitative novelties could arise through the process of evolutio ... |
| Harvey Fletcher | ... er, as well as Philo Farnsworth (inventor of the electronic television) and | (inventor of the hearing aid). Three of BYU's twelve presidents were alumn ... |
| Georg Hartmann | ... In Nuremberg he also made the acquaintance of other mathematicians such as | and Thomas Venatorius as well as the printer-publisher Petreius. During hi ... |
| Kenneth E. Iverson | ... ost computer platforms. It is based on a mathematical notation developed by | and associates that features special attributes for the design and specifi ... |
| Wouter Bos | ... etween current Christian-Democratic Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende and | of the Labour Party. However, the VVD's campaign started relatively late. ... |
| William Astbury | ... he first crude X-ray diffraction images of DNA were collected in the 1930s, | had talked about stacks of nucleotides spaced at 3.4 angström (0.34 nanome ... |
| Stephen Jay Gould | ... penheimer claimed, "An interesting hypothesis put forward by paleontologist | many years ago was that the package of the Mongoloid anatomical changes co ... |
| Frédéric Passy | ... nant's ideas. In 1901 he received the first Nobel Peace Prize together with | |
| F. V. Hayden | ... F. Raynolds and guided by mountain man Jim Bridger, it included naturalist | , who later led other expeditions to the region. The expedition had been c ... |
| John Stapp | ... He flew the observation/chase plane which monitored flight surgeon Colonel | 's rocket sled run of in 1955. Kittinger was impressed by Stapp's dedicati ... |
| Giuseppe Peano | ... t demonstrated by Cantor in 1878, but it became more apparent in 1890, when | introduced the space-filling curves, curved lines that twist and turn enou ... |
| Jean Baudrillard | ... self-interested, image-conscious behaviour in culture. Post-modernists like | have even argued that culture (and therefore our lives) now has no basis i ... |
| George Papandreou | King Constantine II's dismissal of | 's centrist government in July 1965 prompted a prolonged period of politic ... |
| James Watt | Human knowledge and mastery over nature advances when | builds a successful prototype of a steam engine, and a scientific expediti ... |
| Albert Einstein | ... y from collisions between the particle and gas molecules. As pointed out by | in 1905, this experimental evidence for kinetic theory is generally seen a ... |
| David G. Kendall | ... r describing the characteristics of a queueing model was first suggested by | in 1953. Kendall's notation introduced an A/B/C queueing notation that can ... |
| Stephen Oppenheimer | ... ted was disturbing to many Eurocentric nineteenth century anthropologists." | claimed, "An interesting hypothesis put forward by paleontologist Stephen ... |
| Johannes Schöner | ... Nuremberg to visit the professor of mathematics at the Eigidien Oberschule | . In Nuremberg he also made the acquaintance of other mathematicians such ... |
| Charles P. Thacker | ... he Charles Stark Draper Prize along with Alan C. Kay, Robert W. Taylor, and | for their work on Alto. In 2006 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Compute ... |
| Plato | ... and Vitruvius. The works of ancient Greek and Hellenistic writers (such as | , Aristotle, Euclid, and Ptolemy) and Muslim scientists were imported into ... |
| John Turtle Wood | ... iversifying its holdings of ethnography. Overseas excavations continued and | discovered the remains of the 4th century BC Temple of Artemis at Ephesos, ... |
| Sidney Weintraub | ... esearch is published in the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics (founded by | and Paul Davidson), the Cambridge Journal of Economics, the Review of Poli ... |
| Mark Catesby | ... or the taxonomic part of Johann Jacob Dillenius's Hortus Elthamensis and of | 's Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands. These were ... |
| Xǔ Shèn | ... 水 (water), may be wholly pictorial in origin. In 100 CE, the famed scholar | in the Hàn Dynasty classified characters into six categories, namely picto ... |
| William Lawrence Bragg | ... tempt to do so. They asked for, and received, permission to do so from both | and Wilkins. In order to construct their model of DNA, Watson and Crick ma ... |
| Ptolemy | ... one of the 48 Greek constellations described by the 2nd century astronomer | , and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations defined by the Intern ... |
| Othniel Charles Marsh | ... occupied by a genus of mite and had been changed to Dryptosaurus in 1877 by | . Cope refused to recognize the new name created by his archrival Marsh, h ... |
| Edward Frankland | ... new Museum of Economic Geology in London, where he became a close friend of | . From 1847 he was engaged in editing the Handwörterbuch der reinen und an ... |
| Vladimir Lenin | ... d in 1924, as a member of a naval unit, he attended the funeral ceremony of | . That same year he joined the Bolshevik Party |
| J. B. S. Haldane | The geneticist | wondered why the dominant mutation that causes Huntington's disease remain ... |
| Aristotle | ... truvius. The works of ancient Greek and Hellenistic writers (such as Plato, | , Euclid, and Ptolemy) and Muslim scientists were imported into the Christ ... |
| Bill Oddie | Garden and | co-wrote many episodes of the television comedy series Doctor in the House ... |
| David P. Reed | ... came the Etoys system. More recently he started, along with David A. Smith, | , Andreas Raab, Rick McGeer, Julian Lombardi, and Mark McCahill, the Croqu ... |
| Isaac Newton | ... , who was joining it, "I don't know any scientist who looks as much as like | as you do". May replied that "that could be my after dinner comment, thank ... |
| Jens Christian Skou | ... ng this, Boyer and Walker shared half of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. | received the other half of the Chemistry prize that year "for the first di ... |
| David Gale | ... it can be used to prove the two-dimensional Brouwer fixed point theorem, as | showed in 1979, and the determinacy of higher-dimensional variants proves ... |
| Guy Coburn Robson | Two Systematic scientists, | and Owain Richards, rejected both Mendelism and Darwinism and suggested th ... |
| Hugo Weaving | ... hett and won five Australian Film Institute Awards including Best Actor for | , Best Actress for Blanchett and Best Supporting Actress for screen vetera ... |
| James Ward | In 1904, with Professor | and some others, Rivers founded the British Journal of Psychology of which ... |
| Johann Jacob Dillenius | ... genus name Magnolia. He was at least responsible for the taxonomic part of | 's Hortus Elthamensis and of Mark Catesby's Natural History of Carolina, F ... |
| Aristotle | ... nce in Greek pagan philosophy, including pagan philosophers like Euclid and | , who based their logic on Monism and Aristotle's arguments around his con ... |
| Newton | ... niana, and the introduced Indigofera tinctoria and Indigofera suffruticosa. | used "indigo" to describe one of the two new primary colors he added to th ... |
| Jan Peter Balkenende | ... tion away from the duel between current Christian-Democratic Prime Minister | and Wouter Bos of the Labour Party. However, the VVD's campaign started re ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | Bree is a fictional village in | 's Middle-earth, east of the Shire and south of Fornost Erain. It is thoug ... |
| Sidney Ray | ... two of his best former students, would participate. The other members were | , C.G Seligman, and a young Cambridge graduate named Anthony Wilkin, who w ... |
| Ashley Montagu | ... eoteny, "Asians", not whites, are "clearly" the most neotenized human race. | mirrored this statement when he stated that the "Mongoloid skull, whether ... |
| Butler Lampson | QED is a line-oriented computer text editor that was developed by | and L. Peter Deutsch for the Berkeley Timesharing System running on the SD ... |
| Nicholas Kaldor | ... idge capital controversy – winning the argument but not the battle. Much of | ’s work was based on the ideas of increasing returns to scale, path depend ... |
| Nick Cave | ... ic scene which had sprung up in Melbourne came The Boys Next Door featuring | . The Boys Next Door would eventually become The Birthday Party |
| Richard Trevithick | Cornishman | is credited with the first realistic design of the steam locomotive in 180 ... |
| Michael Servetus | Both | and Emanuel Swedenborg have been interpreted as being proponents of Modali ... |
| Philipp Melanchthon | During the Reformation the theologian and educator | reorganized the whole educational system of the Lutheran Protestant parts ... |
| Marilyn Monroe | ... e early 1950s, Groucho described his perfect woman: “Someone who looks like | and talks like George S. Kaufman. |
| André-Marie Ampère | Through popular etymology, it has been falsely claimed that | used the symbol in his widely read publications, and that people began cal ... |
| David Gottlieb | ... originally derived from the bacterium Streptomyces venezuelae, isolated by | , and introduced into clinical practice in 1949, under the trade name Chlo ... |
| Lewis Carroll | ... ated dodo fossils, the newly vindicated bird was featured as a character in | 's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. With the popularity of the book, the ... |
| Lupitus of Barcelona | ... , where the air had to be pumped manually. In a letter of 984, Gerbert asks | for a book on astrology and astronomy, two terms historian S. Jim Tester s ... |
| Euclid | ... e works of ancient Greek and Hellenistic writers (such as Plato, Aristotle, | , and Ptolemy) and Muslim scientists were imported into the Christian worl ... |
| Stephen Jay Gould | | objected to the ranking of races as more or less neotenous. But Gould argu ... |
| William Cookworthy | | discovered deposits of kaolin clay in Cornwall, making a considerable cont ... |
| William McDougall | ... reaction was to decline, but he soon agreed on learning that C.S Myers and | , two of his best former students, would participate. The other members we ... |
| Thomas Peter Anderson Stuart | ... nt manner. Doyle's father, artist Charles Altamont Doyle, died in Dumfries. | left Dumfries to go on and found the University of Sydney Medical School. ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | A palantír (pl. palantíri) is a magical artifact from | 's fantasy legendarium. A palantír (sometimes translated as "Seeing Stone" ... |
| Peter Medawar | ... ious mutations that are believed to allow—even cause—age-related mortality. | formalised this observation in his mutation accumulation theory of aging. ... |
| Isaac Newton | ... morals but no longer authoritative (or meant to be) on matters of science. | 's (1642–1727) mathematical explanation of universal gravitation explained ... |
| Jared Diamond | | describes an "Evil Quartet" of habitat destruction, overkill, introduced s ... |
| Reuben Fine | ... a worthy champion, even if he was not as dominant as the earlier champions. | wrote, "In the two years before the return match, Euwe's strength increase ... |
| Edward Goodrich Acheson | ... efinery grew into the Aluminum Company of America. He became the partner of | in manufacturing silicon carbide, a revolutionary abrasive, in the Carboru ... |
| Imre Lakatos | ... he subject of modern ethno-cultural studies of mathematics. The philosopher | in his Proofs and Refutations aimed to sharpen the formulation of informal ... |
| Ralph Borsodi | ... A. Whitney Griswold (1906–1963), environmentalist Aldo Leopold (1887–1948), | (1886–1977), and present-day authors Wendell Berry (b. 1934), Gene Logsdon ... |
| Professor James Ward | ... m with the degree of M.A. honoris causa and, in 1904 with the assistance of | , Rivers made a further mark on the world of psychological sciences, found ... |
| Carl Linnaeus | The species was first officially described by Swedish botanist | in 1758. In the two centuries since then, numerous subspecies have been id ... |
| Thomas Bradwardine | In De causa Dei contra Pelagium et de virtute causarum, | denounced Pelagians in the 14th century and Gabriel Biel did the same in t ... |
| Ejnar Hertzsprung | In 1909, | was the first to suggest that Sirius was a member of the Ursa Major Moving ... |
| Barbara McClintock | ... genetic loci called nucleolar organizing regions (NORs), first described by | . Because of this non-random organization, the nucleolus is defined as a " ... |
| Bryan A. Garner | ... g guidance for citing electronic works. Other changes included a chapter by | on American English grammar and usage, and a revised treatment of mathemat ... |
| Ptolemy | ... ncient Greek and Hellenistic writers (such as Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, and | ) and Muslim scientists were imported into the Christian world, providing ... |
| Otto Selz | ... that Popper took some of his ideas from his tutor, the German psychologist | . Selz himself never published his ideas, partly because of the rise of Na ... |
| Carsten Niebuhr | ... was compensated for this by the esteem of Frederick the Great, of Lessing, | , and many foreign scholars |
| Charles Martin Hall | ... e aluminum, industrial abrasives ("carborundum"), and coke. Mellon financed | , whose refinery grew into the Aluminum Company of America. He became the ... |
| Linus Pauling | ... ucture was driven in part by the knowledge that they were competing against | . Given Pauling's recent success in discovering the Alpha helix, they fear ... |
| John Hicks | ... sticky prices or wages. Post Keynesians typically reject the IS/LM model of | , which was very influential in neo-Keynesian economics |
| Johannes Reinke | Other vitalists included | and Oscar Hertwig. Reinke used the word neovitalism to describe his work, ... |
| Selman Waksman | The term antibiotic was coined by | in 1942 to describe any substance produced by a microorganism that is to t ... |
| James Bradley | ... n of the axis of the Earth was discovered in 1728 by the British astronomer | , but this nutation was not explained in detail until 20 years later |
| Thomas Hornsby | The astronomer | observed the transit of Venus from the tower of the five orders in 1769 |
| Joseph Stiglitz | ... asury Department, and US and other developed country trade negotiators. See | , The Roaring Nineties, Globalization and Its Discontents, and Making Glob ... |
| George C. Williams | Another evolutionary theory of aging was proposed by | and involves antagonistic pleiotropy. A single gene may affect multiple tr ... |
| Pytheas | ... irst writer to use a form of the name was the Greek explorer and geographer | in the 4th century BC. Pytheas referred to Prettanike or Brettaniai, a gro ... |
| Louis Fieser | ... skets, hoses, medical supplies and rain clothing. A team of chemists led by | at Harvard University was the first one to develop synthetic napalm, durin ... |
| Carl Peter Thunberg | ... liliiflora, and Magnolia coco and Magnolia figo. Soon after that, in 1794, | collected and described Magnolia obovata from Japan and at roughly the sam ... |
| Donald Knuth | CWEB is a computer programming system created by | and Silvio Levy as a follow up to Knuth's WEB literate programming system, ... |
| Matteo Ricci | As late as 1595, the first Jesuit missionary to China, | , recorded that the Chinese say: "The earth is flat an |
| Edward Teller | ... onfused with the U.S. Army Jupiter Intermediate-range ballistic missile. At | 's prompting, the Navy's "Jupiter" missile plans were abandoned in favor o ... |
| Dana Angluin | ... g System running on the SDS 940. It was implemented by L. Peter Deutsch and | between 1965 and 1966 |
| Pim Fortuyn | ... o because the final was held several days, after Rotterdam's political hero | was murdered. Lots of fans were still full of emotion, before and after th ... |
| Lawrence Lambe | ... refused to recognize the new name created by his archrival Marsh, however, | instead of Laelaps incrassatus used the name Dryptosaurus incrassatus when ... |
| Pier Paolo Pasolini | ... umerism on society has often been fiercely criticized by intellectuals like | and film directors like Dino Risi, Vittorio De Sica and Ettore Scola, that ... |
| Albert Einstein | In the opening scene, Maggie spells EMCSQU with her blocks, a reference to | 's mass-energy equivalence equation. A picture of Einstein also appears on ... |
| Benedict Anderson | ... overseas, such as the category of long-distance nationalists identified by | . Brubaker notes that (as examples): Albanians, Basques, Hindu Indians, Ir ... |
| Nicholas Negroponte | ... hine, and the XO-1. The program was begun and is sustained by Kay's friend, | , and is based on Kay's Dynabook ideal. Kay is a prominent co-developer of ... |
| Boethius | ... re four roads meet"), and its use for the 4 subjects has been attributed to | or Cassiodorus in the 6th century. Together, the trivium and the quadriviu ... |
| Frank Holmes | ... ve came in 1922 at a boundary conference in Uqair when the prospector Major | tried to include Qatar in an oil concession he was discussing with Ibn Sau ... |
| Walther Flemming | ... ägeli in 1842. Their behavior in animal (salamander) cells was described by | , the discoverer of mitosis, in 1882. The name was coined by another Germa ... |
| Oliver Perry Hay | ... ribed the remains in detail in 1903 and 1904, a combination first coined by | in 1902. Shortly later, Osborn pointed out that D. incrassatus was based o ... |
| Oscar Hertwig | Other vitalists included Johannes Reinke and | . Reinke used the word neovitalism to describe his work, he claimed that i ... |
| Fred Brooks | ... Chapter 6 called "A programming language" for the book he was writing with | , Automatic Data Processing, which would later be published in 1963 |
| George Bernard Shaw | ... , Winston Churchill and a young John F. Kennedy. Upon visiting St. Donat's, | was quoted as saying: "This is what God would have built if he had had the ... |
| Max Born | Far from claiming to make "the contradiction disappear" which | thought could be achieved with a statistical approach, de Broglie extended ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | ... rk Riders, the Nine Riders, or simply the Nine) are fictional characters in | 's Middle-earth legendarium. They were nine Men who succumbed to Sauron's ... |
| Imre Lakatos | It has been argued that Popper's student | transformed Popper's philosophy using historicism and updated Hegelian his ... |
| Isaac Newton | ... e enjoyed collecting books: for example, he collected and protected many of | 's papers. It is in part on the basis of these papers that Keynes wrote of ... |
| Maurice Hilleman | ... ve measure against mumps is a vaccination with a mumps vaccine, invented by | at Merck. The vaccine may be given separately or as part of the MMR immuni ... |
| Aldo Leopold | ... ck (1902–1968), historian A. Whitney Griswold (1906–1963), environmentalist | (1887–1948), Ralph Borsodi (1886–1977), and present-day authors Wendell Be ... |
| Archibald Meston | In 1885 the explorer | described the Barron Falls in flood where the raging waters "rush together ... |
| C.G Seligman | ... best former students, would participate. The other members were Sidney Ray, | , and a young Cambridge graduate named Anthony Wilkin, who was asked to ac ... |
| Jane Goodall | ... ht bulb. Dr. Pryor compares Bart's proposed work among ordinary children to | 's study of chimpanzees. Goodall was pleased to be mentioned in the episod ... |
| Lawrence Stager | Archaeologist | has suggested that the colony might have been attacked and its members eat ... |
| Ernst Mach | ... based on reinforcement, punishment, and extinction. Following the ideas of | , Skinner rejected Thorndike's mediating structures required by "satisfact ... |
| Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli | Chromosomes were first observed in plant cells by | in 1842. Their behavior in animal (salamander) cells was described by Walt ... |
| Nagendra Kumar Singh | ... ts from the Indian Council of Agricultural Research under the leadership of | . The paper was published in an India |
| Max Planck | ... appeared to be the physicist who most sought that dimension of action which | , at the beginning of the 20th century, had shown to be the only universal ... |
| Edward Jenner | ... when a smallpox epidemic begins in New England. Smallpox was then cured by | |
| Howard Zinn | ... New England ancestor). Another neighbor of Damon's was historian and author | , whose biographical film You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train and audio ... |
| William James | ... mistic attitudes are favored and of emotional consideration. Al-Ghazali and | have rejected their pessimism after suffering psychological, or even psych ... |
| Maurice Wilkins | ... were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962 with | |
| Selman Waksman | ... growth of Bacillus anthracis. These drugs were later renamed antibiotics by | , an American microbiologist, in 1942 |
| John Ronald Reuel Tolkien | ... ristopher Tolkien was born in Leeds, England, the third and youngest son of | . He was educated at the Dragon School in Oxford and then at the Oratory S ... |
| Georges-Louis Le Sage | ... hich were neglected by their contemporaries) were Mikhail Lomonosov (1747), | (ca. 1780, published 1818), John Herapath (1816) and John James Waterston ... |
| Gary Jacobson | ... quota law". University of California, San Diego political science professor | 's 2006 study of partisan polarization found that in a state-by-state surv ... |
| Pliny the Elder | ... found to date is in 1787, in translator Gottfried Große’s interpretation of | ’s Natural History |
| Vesalius, Andreas | ... rk - Verhofstadt, Guy - Verhofstadt III Government - Verlooy, Jan-Baptist - | - Veurne - Vieille Montagne - Vink, Karel - Visa requirements for Belgian ... |
| Andrew Samwick | ... mics Department, whose prominent professors include David Blanchflower, and | , also holds the distinction as the top-ranked economics program in the wo ... |
| Kazuhiko Nishijima | ... Heisenberg; then, in 1953, according to strangeness by Murray Gell-Mann and | . To gain greater insight, the hadrons were sorted into groups having simi ... |
| Dmitri Mendeleev | ... r.) The alternative technique of fractional crystallization was invented by | , in the form of the double ammonium nitrate tetrahydrate, which he used t ... |
| Martin Gardner | ... TAC-TIX); Nash's fellow players at first called the game Nash. According to | , some of the Princeton University students also referred to the game as J ... |
| Leonardo da Vinci | ... rtress) into a rich noble residence, at the cusp of Gothic and Renaissance. | was his guest at Vigevano, as was Bramante, who is ascribed with the tall ... |
| Daniel Klein | ... an-speaking parishes of East-Prussia. It was written in Latin and German by | and published in Königsberg in 1653/1654. The first scientific Compendium ... |
| Andrew Benson | Melvin Calvin and | , along with James Bassham, elucidated the path of carbon assimilation (th ... |
| Herman Potočnik | ... r communication purposes was first published in 1928 (but not widely so) by | . The idea of a geostationary orbit was first disseminated on a wide scale ... |
| Hermann von Helmholtz | ... gmund Freud and Carl Jung. Freud was a student of the notable anti-vitalist | , and initially struggled to express his concepts in strictly neurological ... |
| Zweig | ... ilar purposes. Notable contributions to wavelet theory can be attributed to | ’s discovery of the continuous wavelet transform in 1975 (originally calle ... |
| Shmuel Eisenstadt | ... ilisations, and the post-colonial perspective of "alternative modernities," | introduced the concept of "multiple modernities" (2003; see also Delanty 2 ... |
| Richard Keynes | ... ) was a distinguished surgeon, scholar and bibliophile. His nephews include | (1919–2010) a physiologist; and Quentin Keynes (1921–2003), an adventurer ... |
| William Alonso | ... the Regional Science Department in 1956. It featured as its first graduate | and was looked upon by many to be the international academic leader for th ... |
| Moritz Lazarus | ... The term was used in 1859 by German philosophers and frequent collaborators | and Heymann Steinthal in Zeitschrift für Völkerpsychologie und Sprachwisse ... |
| Murray Rothbard | ... rices and ration production and distribution in periods of acute shortages. | considered the federal reserve as a public cartel of private banks |
| Noam Chomsky | ... settling in Philadelphia. Putnam attended Central High School; there he met | , who was a year behind him. The two have been friends—and often intellect ... |
| John Tyndall | ... renamed antibiotics by Selman Waksman, an American microbiologist, in 1942. | first described antagonistic activities by fungi against bacteria in Engla ... |
| Arthur C. Clarke | ... Stations Give Worldwide Radio Coverage?" by British science fiction writer | , published in Wireless World magazine. The orbit, which Clarke first desc ... |
| Jacques Delors | The Presidential system had started to develop since | and has since been cemented, a strong President with competent mandarins i ... |
| Rupert Murdoch | ... ional (parent of Times Newspapers and News Group Newspapers, and chaired by | ). News International had built and clandestinely equipped a new printing ... |
| James Callaghan | ... ent over its cost and whether it was necessary. The outgoing Prime Minister | made his government's papers on Trident available to Margaret Thatcher's n ... |
| Erwin Schrödinger | ... from physics into biology that he was influenced by both Linus Pauling and | . It was clear in theory that covalent bonds in biological molecules could ... |
| Stephen Jay Gould | ... y theorists propose that neoteny has been a key feature in human evolution. | believed that the "evolutionary story" of humans is one where we have been ... |
| Zygmunt Bauman | Critical theorists such as Theodor Adorno and | propose that modernity or industrialization represents a departure from th ... |
| Adam Smith | ... r natural price of a commodity. The labour theory of value, as presented by | , however, did not require the quantification of all past labour, nor did ... |
| Professional Chemist | ... arch should honour a Hippocratic Oath for Scientists which is required as a | |
| Melvin Calvin | ... determine that the oxygen liberated in photosynthesis came from the water. | and Andrew Benson, along with James Bassham, elucidated the path of carbon ... |
| David Blanchflower | ... omics in 2003. The Economics Department, whose prominent professors include | , and Andrew Samwick, also holds the distinction as the top-ranked economi ... |
| Masahisa Fujita | ... e field. Another important graduate and faculty member of the department is | . The core curriculum of this department was microeconomics, input-output ... |
| Audouin Dollfus | ... ious, the observations were difficult to reconcile with a reasonable orbit. | observed a moon on December 15, 1966, which he proposed to be named "Janus ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... t Britain resolved that lingering issue and the British departed the forts. | saw the nearby British imperial presence as a threat to republicanism in t ... |
| Joan Crawford | ... itty, WWII Nurse and POW Col. Rosemary Hogan, Academy Award winning actress | , WWII ace Robert S. Johnson, three time NBA champion Stacey King, former ... |
| Robert Koch | ... . Antibiosis was first described in 1877 in bacteria when Louis Pasteur and | observed that an airborne bacillus could inhibit the growth of Bacillus an ... |
| Jacques Cassini | ... . Longitude within individual signs was still being used as late as 1740 by | in his Tables astronomiques |
| Sigmund Freud | ... ology has been rich in vitalist concepts, particularly through the ideas of | and Carl Jung. Freud was a student of the notable anti-vitalist Hermann vo ... |
| Werner Heisenberg | ... t, the particles were classified by charge and isospin by Eugene Wigner and | ; then, in 1953, according to strangeness by Murray Gell-Mann and Kazuhiko ... |
| Proclus | ... f the writer. The fragment of a polemical treatise against the Neoplatonist | is now assigned to Nicolaus, archbishop of Methone in Peloponnesus (ft. 12 ... |
| John Herapath | ... Mikhail Lomonosov (1747), Georges-Louis Le Sage (ca. 1780, published 1818), | (1816) and John James Waterston (1843), which connected their research wit ... |
| Morlet | ... tudying the reaction of the ear to sound), Pierre Goupillaud, Grossmann and | 's formulation of what is now known as the CWT (1982), Jan-Olov Strömberg' ... |
| John James Waterston | ... Georges-Louis Le Sage (ca. 1780, published 1818), John Herapath (1816) and | (1843), which connected their research with the development of mechanical ... |
| Benjamin Franklin | | attended a revival meeting in Philadelphia and was greatly impressed with ... |
| Charles Darwin | ... discover exactly which molecule was the genetic molecule. In Crick’s view, | ’s theory of evolution by natural selection, Gregor Mendel’s genetics and ... |
| Carl Jung | ... h in vitalist concepts, particularly through the ideas of Sigmund Freud and | . Freud was a student of the notable anti-vitalist Hermann von Helmholtz, ... |
| Charles Darwin | ... g to similar projects. His efforts were recognized both at home and abroad. | said of him: "The Emperor does so much for science, that every scientific ... |
| Daubechies | ... he CWT (1982), Jan-Olov Strömberg's early work on discrete wavelets (1983), | ' orthogonal wavelets with compact support (1988), Mallat's multiresolutio ... |
| Murray Gell-Mann | ... ne Wigner and Werner Heisenberg; then, in 1953, according to strangeness by | and Kazuhiko Nishijima. To gain greater insight, the hadrons were sorted i ... |
| Mihajlo Pupin | Loading coils are archaically known as Pupin coils after | (especially when used for the Heaviside condition), and the process of ins ... |
| Bryan A. Garner | ... tal agencies that administer a jurisdiction's prisons and parole system" in | , editor, Black's Law Dictionary, 9th ed., West Group, 2009, ISBN 0-314-19 ... |
| Terry Sejnowski | ... t Churchland, Vilayanur Ramachandran, Tomaso Poggio, the late Leslie Orgel, | , his son Michael Crick, and his youngest daughter the late Jacqueline Nic ... |
| Allan C. Carlson | ... authors Wendell Berry (b. 1934), Gene Logsdon (b. 1932), Paul Thompson, and | (b. 1949) |
| Adolf von Baeyer | ... carbon atom by J.H. van't Hoff, and the reform of chemical nomenclature by | , resulted in vituperative articles in the Journal für Praktische Chemie. ... |
| René Descartes | ... as human beings feel it traces back to the 17th-century French philosopher, | , who argued that animals do not experience pain and suffering because the ... |
| Jan Peter Balkenende | ... here were a number of parliamentary debates on the issue and Prime Minister | was called to answer questions. He explained that the project was a privat ... |
| Rudolph A. Marcus | Nobel Prize-winning scientist | was able to discover the function and significance of the electron transpo ... |
| Pierre Schaeffer | ... tar in a band, but his musical style was perhaps most heavily influenced by | , a pioneer of musique concrète at the Groupe de Recherches Musicales |
| Ferdinand de Saussure | ... gns or semiotics. Semiotics, tied closely to the structuralism pioneered by | , was extremely influential in the development of literary theory out of t ... |
| Louis Pasteur | ... led to the discovery of natural antibacterials produced by microorganisms. | observed, "if we could intervene in the antagonism observed between some b ... |
| Rupert Murdoch | In 1986, | 's News International built a new £80m printing and publishing works in th ... |
| Claude Shannon | ... y behind DSL, like many other forms of communication, can be traced back to | 's seminal 1948 paper: A Mathematical Theory of Communication |
| Edward Frankland | With | he found that nitriles can be hydrolyzed to the corresponding acids |
| Chris Lintott | ... of Bang! – The Complete History of the Universe with Sir Patrick Moore and | , which was published in October 2006. In October 2007, more than 30 years ... |
| Alexander Hamilton | ... cs could be studied in a laboratory as it were, the social milieu. In 1787, | wrote: "...The science of politics like most other sciences has received g ... |
| Sigmund Freud | ... ges. Various 19th century intellectuals, from Auguste Comte to Karl Marx to | , attempted to offer scientific and/or political ideologies in the wake of ... |
| Shoichi Sakata | ... uval Ne'eman. Gell-Mann and George Zweig, correcting an earlier approach of | , went on to propose in 1963 that the structure of the groups could be exp ... |
| Frédéric Bastiat | ... s coined in 1914 by Friedrich von Wieser in his book "". • However, in 1848 | described this concept in his essa |
| Brian K. Hall | ... lution hypothesis, although he does believe humans are generally neotenous. | also cites the long legs of humans as a peramorphic trait, which is in sha ... |
| Nikolai Krogius | ... of Korchnoi and Borislav Ivkov. He was fourth at Sochi 1964 with 9.5/15, as | won |
| Conny Palm | ... sh for "Binary Arithmetic Relay Calculator"). The team was initially led by | , who died in December 1951, after which Stig Comét took over. The hardwar ... |
| August Krönig | ... rch with the development of mechanical explanations of gravitation. In 1856 | (probably after reading a paper of Waterston) created a simple gas-kinetic ... |
| John R. Horner | ... currently still working on growing a tail, and changing the wings to claws. | used evolutionary developmental biology on a chick embryo because he knew ... |
| Ashley Montagu | | notes the following neotenous traits in women relative to men: more delica ... |
| Ali ibn Sahl | ... sopher born in Merv about 192 AH (808 C.E.) (d. approx. 240 AH (855 C.E.)). | belonged to the medical school of Tabaristan or Hyrcania) |
| Rudolf Clausius | In 1857 | , according to his own words independently of Krönig, developed a similar, ... |
| Darwin's | ... al History Museum narrating commentary to some of the exhibits that support | theory of natural selection |
| Linus Pauling | ... Crick’s transition from physics into biology that he was influenced by both | and Erwin Schrödinger. It was clear in theory that covalent bonds in biolo ... |
| Hampton Carson | ... ssic example is the study of chromosome banding in Hawaiian drosophilids by | |
| Haar | ... wavelets can be linked to several separate trains of thought, starting with | 's work in the early 20th century. Later work by Dennis Gabor yielded Gabo ... |
| George Zweig | ... ghtfold way, invented in 1961 by Gell-Mann and Yuval Ne'eman. Gell-Mann and | , correcting an earlier approach of Shoichi Sakata, went on to propose in ... |
| Federico Capasso | ... Dağdeviren and his team. In 1994, the quantum cascade laser was invented by | , Alfred Cho, Jerome Faist and their collaborators and was later greatly i ... |
| Dian Fossey | ... volcanoes and its protected population of mountain gorillas made famous by | . Additionally, tourism is drawn to central Africa's largest protected wet ... |
| Jeffrey Sachs | | demanded that the entire African debt (approximately $200 billion) be forg ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... nister James Callaghan made his government's papers on Trident available to | 's new incoming Conservative Party government, which took the decision to ... |
| Hipparchus | ... s responded to this phenomenon of precession once it had been discovered by | around 130 BC. Today, some read Ptolemy as dropping the concept of a fixed ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | Prime Minister, | , 1979–1990, was Conservative MP for Finchley from 1959 to 1992, although ... |
| Thales | ... ered a "continent of knowledge", History, analogous to the contributions of | to mathematics, Galileo to physics, or, better, Freud's , in that the stru ... |
| Walter Isard | | 's efforts culminated in the creation of a few academic departments and se ... |
| Ptolemy | ... n once it had been discovered by Hipparchus around 130 BC. Today, some read | as dropping the concept of a fixed celestial sphere and adopting what is r ... |
| Karl Marx | ... l new challenges. Various 19th century intellectuals, from Auguste Comte to | to Sigmund Freud, attempted to offer scientific and/or political ideologie ... |
| Norman Birnbaum | ... amily". At the time of Kennedy's death, sociologist and Nation board member | wrote that Kennedy had come to be viewed as the "voice" and "conscience" o ... |
| Gaspard Bauhin | ... first known printed reference to the rutabaga comes from the Swiss botanist | in 1620, where he notes that it was growing wild in Sweden. It is often co ... |
| Friedrich von Wieser | The term was coined in 1914 by | in his book "". • However, in 1848 Frédéric Bastiat described this concept ... |
| James Clerk Maxwell | In 1859, after reading a paper by Clausius, | formulated the Maxwell distribution of molecular velocities, which gave th ... |
| Heymann Steinthal | ... n 1859 by German philosophers and frequent collaborators Moritz Lazarus and | in Zeitschrift für Völkerpsychologie und Sprachwissenschaft. They wrote |
| John von Neumann | ... nother 5 bits — and so it was 16-bits. Nevertheless the small word size led | to conclude the machine would be worthless |
| John R. Horner | ... e key evo-devo topics of evolutionary innovation and morphological novelty. | began his Project "How to Build a Dinosaur" in 2009 in conjunction with hi ... |
| J. Allan Hobson | ... is doctorate in biochemistry. He worked with the prominent sleep researcher | for many years. Stickgold's research has focused on sleep and cognition, d ... |
| John Stuart Mill | Victimless crimes are in the harm principle of | , "victimless" from a position that considers the individual as the sole s ... |
| Newton | Following the classical dynamics of | and Euler, the motion of a material body is produced by the action of exte ... |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Two Will-o-the-wisps appear in | 's fairy tale The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily (1795). They are desc ... |
| James Callaghan | ... th., Sir Francis Austen (brother of Jane Austen) briefly lived in the area, | (British prime minister 1976–1979) was born in Portsmouth, John Pounds the ... |
| Averroes | ... plished man who wrote a good Arabic style and who protected the philosopher | . His title of "al-Mansur," "The Victorious," was earned by the defeat he ... |
| W. E. B. Du Bois | ... He was inspired by the writings of black intellectuals like Marcus Garvey, | , and George Padmore, and his relationships with them. Nkrumah's biggest s ... |
| Carsten Niebuhr | ... instability in the period led to a demographic collapse - German geographer | found in 1763 that Bahrain's 360 towns and villages had, through warfare a ... |
| Albert Einstein | In the early 20th century, Frederick Frost Blackman along with | investigated the effects of light intensity (irradiance) and temperature o ... |
| Johann Heinrich von Thünen | ... ists to location theory. The early German hegemony more or less starts with | and runs through both Wilhelm Launhardt and Alfred Weber to Walter Christa ... |
| E. R. Thiele | ... kah's reign. William F. Albright has dated his reign to 737 – 732 BC, while | , following H. J. Cook and Carl Lederer, held that Pekah set up in Gilead ... |
| Kathleen Kenyon | ... on methods he used, for example the grid system (later developed further by | and known as the Wheeler-Kenyon method), were significant advances in arch ... |
| John S. Stone | | worked for the American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T) and was the f ... |
| Alexander Fleming | ... , others pursued similar lines of inquiry but it was not until in 1928 that | observed antibiosis against bacteria by a fungus of the genus Penicillium. ... |
| Robert Sternberg | ... ut themselves and the world. In his triangular theory of love, psychologist | theorizes that love is a mix of three components: some (1) passion, or phy ... |
| Jean Rouch | He is a progenitor of ethnographic film. | and John Collier Jr. would practice and theorise the genre as visual anthr ... |
| Peter Shor | ... s later greatly improved by the innovations of Claire Gmachl. Also in 1994, | devised his quantum factorization algorithm. In 1996, SCALPEL electron lit ... |
| Otto Hölder | ... gamma function does not appear to satisfy any simple differential equation. | proved in 1887 that the gamma function at least does not satisfy any algeb ... |
| Benjamin Franklin | ... tigate mesmerism; one was led by Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, the other, led by | , included Bailly and Lavoisier. The commissioners learned about Mesmeric ... |
| Todd J. Henry | | of Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA, is the Consortium's founder and ... |
| Euler | Following the classical dynamics of Newton and | , the motion of a material body is produced by the action of externally ap ... |
| Carlo Fea | ... gain and built the Alessandrine neighborhood over it. But the excavation by | , who began clearing the debris from the Arch of Septimius Severus in 1803 ... |
| Paul Wolfowitz | ... Bush nominated former deputy secretary of state Robert Zoellick to succeed | as President of the World Bank Group. The Executive Directors unanimously ... |
| George Campbell | | was another AT&T engineer working for them in their Boston facility. Campb ... |
| Casiri | ... patron, al-Mansour. Abulfaraj (Historia Compendosia Dynastiarum, p.291) and | claim that the cause was eating beans. Another attributes the cause of his ... |
| Auguste Comte | ... arose fundamental new challenges. Various 19th century intellectuals, from | to Karl Marx to Sigmund Freud, attempted to offer scientific and/or politi ... |
| Leslie Orgel | ... istof Koch, Pat Churchland, Vilayanur Ramachandran, Tomaso Poggio, the late | , Terry Sejnowski, his son Michael Crick, and his youngest daughter the la ... |
| Carl Linnaeus | ... in his 1620 Prodromus. Brassica napobrassica was first validly published by | in his 1753 work Species Plantarum as a variety of B. oleracea: B. olerace ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... n politics who participated in the Enlightenment were Benjamin Franklin and | |
| George Bernard Shaw | ... Common rendered Übermensch as "Superman"; Common was anticipated in this by | , who had done the same in his 1903 stage play Man and Superman. Walter Ka ... |
| Sadi Carnot | ... amic theorems from the principles developed by others, such as Clausius and | |
| Otto Heinrich Warburg | ... to discover the function and significance of the electron transport chain. | and Dean Burk discovered the I-quantum photosynthesis reaction that splits ... |
| Wilhelm Launhardt | ... y more or less starts with Johann Heinrich von Thünen and runs through both | and Alfred Weber to Walter Christaller and August Lösch |
| Maurice Wilkes | ... arts of the matrix to implement different instructions. The design inspired | to develop the concept of microprogramming |
| Sheila Jeffreys | ... views on prostitution include Kathleen Barry, Melissa Farley, Julie Bindel, | , Catharine MacKinnon and Laura Lederer; the has also condemned prostituti ... |
| Euclid | ... s of influence in Greek pagan philosophy, including pagan philosophers like | and Aristotle, who based their logic on Monism and Aristotle's arguments a ... |
| Herbert Marcuse | ... ments despite his claiming that his philosophical views ignore metaphysics. | criticized Being and Nothingness (1943) by Jean-Paul Sartre for projecting ... |
| Michael Pupin | | , inventor and Serbian immigrant to the USA, also played a part in the sto ... |
| Alfred Nobel | ... r to the economics prize, it is not a Nobel prize (i.e., a prize created by | ). However, unlike the economics prize it does not have any organizational ... |
| Edward B. Lewis | ... and how geometric transformations could be used to explain the variations. | discovered homeotic genes, rooting the emerging discipline of evo-devo in ... |
| Simon Kuznets | GDP was first developed by | for a US Congress report in 1934, who immediately said not to use it as a ... |
| Gaspard Bauhin | ... rich taxonomic history. The earliest account comes from the Swiss botanist | , who wrote about it in his 1620 Prodromus. Brassica napobrassica was firs ... |
| Gilbert White | ... iased empirical research for modern estimates of biodiversity. In 1768 Rev. | succinctly observed of his Selborne, Hampshire "all nature is so full, tha ... |
| Augustus Pitt Rivers | ... was influenced greatly by the work of the archaeologist Lieutenant General | (1827–1900). The two constant themes in his attempts to improve archaeolog ... |
| James Crichton | ... surgeon was born in Dumfries as was John Craig, mathematician, and polymath | . Benjamin Bell after being born in Dumfries went on to become considered ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | ... Tolkien (born 21 November 1924) is the third and youngest son of the author | (1892–1973), and is best known as the editor of much of his father's posth ... |
| John Gottman | After studying married couples for many years, psychologist | has proposed the theory of the "magic ratio" for successful marriages. The ... |
| Dean Burk | Otto Heinrich Warburg and | discovered the I-quantum photosynthesis reaction that splits the CO 2 , ac ... |
| Harald Bohr | ... applicable characterization of the gamma function was not given until 1922. | and Johannes Mollerup then proved what is known as the Bohr–Mollerup theor ... |
| A. O. Hume | Inspired by a suggestion made by | , a retired British civil servant, seventy-three Indian delegates met in B ... |
| Benjamin Franklin | ... ant figures in American politics who participated in the Enlightenment were | and Thomas Jefferson |
| Mercator | ... ller than the Pythagorean comma. This much smaller interval was later named | 's (see: ) |
| George Brecht | ... l for Social Research in New York City were attended by Mac Low, Al Hansen, | , and Dick Higgins, many of whom were working in other media with little o ... |
| Alfred Weber | ... with Johann Heinrich von Thünen and runs through both Wilhelm Launhardt and | to Walter Christaller and August Lösch |
| Catharine MacKinnon | ... tion include Kathleen Barry, Melissa Farley, Julie Bindel, Sheila Jeffreys, | and Laura Lederer; the has also condemned prostitution as "an intolerable ... |
| Ali ibn Rabban al-Tabari | Razi studied medicine under | , however, Ibn al-Nadim indicates that he studied philosophy under al-Bakh ... |
| Paul Ehrlich | ... herapy as a science and development of antibacterials began in Germany with | in the late 1880s. Ehrlich noted that certain dyes would color human, anim ... |
| Keynesian | ... trade policy of the United States and Britain during the 19th Century, with | stimulus policies |
| Pythagoras | ... a (or ditonic comma), named after the ancient mathematician and philosopher | , is the small interval (or comma) existing in Pythagorean tuning between ... |
| Pliny the Elder | ... me authors identify the old settlement of Bilbao as Amanun Portus, cited by | , or with Flaviobriga, by Ptolemy. There are also ancient walls, discovere ... |
| Claude Shannon | ... one has been explicitly formulated by Auguste Kerckhoffs (in the 1880s) and | (in the 1940s); the statements are known as Kerckhoffs' principle and Shan ... |
| Nikolay Bogolyubov | ... v, who advised Boris Struminsky in this research. In the beginning of 1965, | , Boris Struminsky and Albert Tavchelidze wrote a preprint with a more det ... |
| Ronny Reich | ... xcavating for a sewer near the present-day pool, uncovered stone steps, and | and Eli Shukron (prominent archaeologists) were called in; it became obvio ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | Huston is also famous to a generation of fans of | 's Middle-earth stories as the voice of the wizard Gandalf in the Rankin/B ... |
| Albert O. Hirschman | ... Practice; Gunnar Myrdal's (1957) Economic Theory and Underdeveloped Regions | ;'s (1958) The Strategy of Economic Development; and Claude Ponsard's (195 ... |
| Ptolemy | ... Bilbao as Amanun Portus, cited by Pliny the Elder, or with Flaviobriga, by | . There are also ancient walls, discovered below the Church of San Antón, ... |
| John Stuart Mill | ... es of freedom, tolerance, equality, and individual rights. Ernest Renan and | are often thought to be early liberal nationalists. Liberal nationalists o ... |
| The Scarecrow | ... the Silver Age trends, he reintroduced characters including The Riddler and | . Fox's "Remarkable Ruse of the Riddler" (with art by Sheldon Moldoff) in ... |
| Ernest Becker | ... the fundamental tenets. Terror management theory, based on the writings of | and Otto Rank, is a developing area of study within the academic study of ... |
| Varro | ... was changed to 1 January. Ancient authors attributed it to Numa Pompilius. | states that, according to M. Fulvius Nobilior (consul in 189 BC), who had ... |
| Joseph Bell | ... me considered the first Scottish scientific surgeon. His great grandson was | who Arthur Conan Doyle has credited Sherlock Holmes as being loosely based ... |
| John H. Moore | In 2002, the anthropologist | estimated that a population of 150–180 would allow normal reproduction for ... |
| Elaine Showalter | ... is advances he cursed her so that her prophetic warnings would go unheeded. | called Nightingale's writing "a major text of English feminism, a link bet ... |
| Eli Shukron | ... sewer near the present-day pool, uncovered stone steps, and Ronny Reich and | (prominent archaeologists) were called in; it became obvious to them that ... |
| James Hopwood Jeans | ... and as founded on exercises using the method of inversion, such as found in | textbook Mathematical Theory of Electricity and Magnetism |
| Aldo Leopold | ... particular religion and patriarchal tendency have subsided to some degree. | Leopold was born in 1887 and educated at Yale University. He developed the ... |
| Richard Ned Lebow | ... e Government Department, whose prominent professors include Stephen Brooks, | , and William Wohlforth, was ranked the top solely undergraduate political ... |
| Daniel Bernoulli | In 1738 | published Hydrodynamica, which laid the basis for the kinetic theory of ga ... |
| Stephen Jay Gould | ... r the modern evolutionary synthesis was established (roughly 1936 to 1947). | called this approach to explaining evolution as terminal addition; as if e ... |
| Alexander Hamilton | ... rs may have been more directly deist. These include James Madison, possibly | , Ethan Allen |
| Didymus of Alexandria | ... ks, still extant in an abridged form, compiled, according to the Suda, from | and "The Tarrhaean" (Lucillus of Tarrha, a polis in Crete). In the work, t ... |
| Nikolay Bogolyubov | ... en by the Pauli exclusion principle): Boris Struminsky was a PhD student of | . The problem considered in this preprint was suggested by Nikolay Bogolyu ... |
| Claude Ponsard | ... ons; Albert O. Hirschman's (1958) The Strategy of Economic Development; and | 's (1958) Histoire des Théorie Économique Spatiales. Nonetheless, Walter I ... |
| Charles Hermite | ... a corresponds exactly to Euler's gamma function; a proof was first given by | in 1900. Instead of finding a specialized proof for each formula, it would ... |
| Marx | ... ased by selling it), then profit was impossible. David Ricardo (seconded by | ) responded to this paradox by arguing that Smith had confused labour with ... |
| Melissa Farley | ... omen. Feminists who hold such views on prostitution include Kathleen Barry, | , Julie Bindel, Sheila Jeffreys, Catharine MacKinnon and Laura Lederer; th ... |
| Tomaso Poggio | ... Benzer, Aaron Klug, Christof Koch, Pat Churchland, Vilayanur Ramachandran, | , the late Leslie Orgel, Terry Sejnowski, his son Michael Crick, and his y ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | On the election of | 's government, Lawson was appointed to the position of Financial Secretary ... |
| Barnum Brown | On August 11, 1910, American paleontologist | discovered the remains of a large group of Albertosaurus at another quarry ... |
| Mikhail Lomonosov | ... s of the kinetic theory (which were neglected by their contemporaries) were | (1747), Georges-Louis Le Sage (ca. 1780, published 1818), John Herapath (1 ... |
| Empedocles | ... ted from the nearby harbour of Porto Empedocle (named after the philosopher | who lived in ancient Akragas). However, nowadays Agrigento is one of the p ... |
| Bartók | ... music theory. Although these include analyses of music by Mozart, Debussy, | , Stravinsky, Goeyvaerts, Boulez, Nono, Johannes Fritsch, Michael von Biel ... |
| Otto Rank | ... enets. Terror management theory, based on the writings of Ernest Becker and | , is a developing area of study within the academic study of psychology. I ... |
| Gough Whitlam | ... ration and the National Film and Television Training School. Prime Minister | continued to support Australian film. The South Australian Film Corporatio ... |
| Marie-Louise von Franz | ... ity as a thinker derives precisely from this' - the maximal interpretation. | accepted that 'it is naturally very tempting to identify the hypothesis of ... |
| Albert Schultens | But d'Orville and | helped him to private teaching and reading for the press, by which he was ... |
| W. E. B. Du Bois | In 1956, Robeson, along with close friend | , compared the anti-Stalinist revolution in Hungary to the "same sort of p ... |
| Leo Strauss | ... elements of his thought were emphasized by Carl Schmitt, Joseph Schumpeter, | , Hans Morgenthau, and Raymond Aron. According to Austrian economist Ludwi ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | ... in MMORPGs. 2007 saw the release of The Lord of the Rings Online, based on | 's Middle-earth. Other licensed MMORPGs include The Matrix Online, based o ... |
| James Dewar | Hydrogen was liquefied for the first time by | in 1898 by using regenerative cooling and his invention, the vacuum flask. ... |
| Richard Dunthorne | ... hard Euler for his (assumed) contribution to the work of Mayer, £50 each to | and Israel Lyons for contributing methods to shorten the calculations conn ... |
| Ebenezer Cunningham | ... formal maps for relating solutions of Maxwell’s equations was identified by | (1908) and Harry Bateman (1910). Their training at Cambridge University ha ... |
| Ptolemy | ... an anciently recognized constellation, catalogued along with many others in | 's Almagest, but not historically referred to as a zodiac constellation |
| Karl Marx | ... uages resulting in many people being unable to communicate with each other. | wrote about the creation of nations as requiring a bourgeois revolution an ... |
| Adolf Bastian | ... hological "motifs," Hubert and Mauss's "categories of the imagination," and | 's "primordial thoughts. |
| James Hetfield | ... due to drinking, drug use, violent behavior and personality conflicts with | , Lars Ulrich, and original Metallica bassist Ron McGovney. Two months aft ... |
| Isaac Newton | ... enly that human beings themselves could be understood as complex machines . | , influenced by Descartes, but also, like Bacon, a proponent of experiment ... |
| Ken Wilber | ... authors associated with the new age community have also advocated vitalism. | (1996) has argued that a purposive force guides the course of evolution. D ... |
| Hermann Weyl | ... become distorted. Only when N = 3 or 1 are both problems avoided. In 1922, | showed that Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism works only when N = 3 and ... |
| Joseph Schumpeter | ... abermas. Different elements of his thought were emphasized by Carl Schmitt, | , Leo Strauss, Hans Morgenthau, and Raymond Aron. According to Austrian ec ... |
| Emmanuel Todd | ... ively high propensity to " with rates ranging from 20% to 50%. According to | the relatively high exogamy among French Algerians can be explained by the ... |
| Nikolai Kardashev | ... hat a Type I civilization will form under the Kardashev scale, according to | 's extrapolation of 1% energy usage growth per year |
| Euclid | The first to mention the comma's proportion of 531441:524288 was | , who takes as a basis the whole tone of Pythagorean tuning with the ratio ... |
| Morlet | ... sics. The equivalent French word ondelette meaning "small wave" was used by | and Grossmann in the early 1980s |
| Doris Day | ... , and sign an online petition asking the party leader to change his name to | (after the singer/actress). Producers claim to have obtained in excess of ... |
| Kurt Benirschke | ... y between closely related species is the muntjac, which was investigated by | and his colleague Doris Wurster. The diploid number of the Chinese muntjac ... |
| Raymond Aron | ... sized by Carl Schmitt, Joseph Schumpeter, Leo Strauss, Hans Morgenthau, and | . According to Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises, who had met Weber duri ... |
| Conny [Palm | ... ntional and unnoticed pun after officials denied usage of the name CONIAC ( | Integrator And Calculator, compare Cognac and ENIAC) for the predecessor B ... |
| Harry Bateman | ... ons of Maxwell’s equations was identified by Ebenezer Cunningham (1908) and | (1910). Their training at Cambridge University had given them facility wit ... |
| Deborah Tannen | ... e would object to their classification as "self-help" literature, as with " | 's denial of the self-help role of her books" so as to maintain her academ ... |
| Leonhard Euler | ... sis of the lunar data in the early decades of the Nautical Almanac, £300 to | for his (assumed) contribution to the work of Mayer, £50 each to Richard D ... |
| Gunnar Myrdal | ... ortation; Melvin L. Greenhut's (1956) Plant Location in Theory and Practice | ;'s (1957) Economic Theory and Underdeveloped Regions; Albert O. Hirschman ... |
| Stephen Harper | ... ng, PETA began a petition in memory of Smith to the Canadian Prime Minister | to end the annual tradition. In another ad the following year, Smith posed ... |
| Gerhard Domagk | ... ntibacterial antibiotic, Prontosil, was developed by a research team led by | in 1932 at the Bayer Laboratories of the IG Farben conglomerate in Germany ... |
| Harper government | ... to low- and medium-income families, similar to that recently enacted by the | . While unpopular with the province's anti-poverty movement and the then-m ... |
| Linus Pauling | ... stable helical conformation of amino acid chains in proteins (the α helix). | was the first to identify the 3.6 amino acids per helix turn ratio of the ... |
| Abu Rayhan Biruni | ... me. Aruzi Samarqandi describes how before Avicenna left Khwarezm he had met | (a famous scientist and astronomer), Abu Nasr Iraqi (a renowned mathematic ... |
| James T. Richardson | ... extent, be manipulated at will by outside sources. According to sociologist | , some of the concepts of brainwashing have spread to other fields and are ... |
| Gabriel Tarde | ... ader to familiar frameworks...what the French fin de siecle social theorist | called 'the grooves of borrowed thought'. |
| Joseph Swan | ... the first public building to be lit by electric light, during a lecture by | on 20 October 1880 |
| Hans Morgenthau | ... is thought were emphasized by Carl Schmitt, Joseph Schumpeter, Leo Strauss, | , and Raymond Aron. According to Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises, who ... |
| Brainiac | ... athing room for the heroes, but the various supervillains join forces under | (who murders Alexi Luthor of Earth-Two for trying to take leadership) and ... |
| Thomas Bradwardine | How to react to Pelagius has remained a question in Christian theology. | (c. 1290-1349) wrote De causa Dei contra Pelagium et de virtute causarum a ... |
| Max Tegmark | ... cannot be stable; electrons would either fall into the nucleus or disperse. | expands on the preceding argument in the following anthropic manner. If T ... |
| René Descartes | Influenced both by Galileo's new physics and Bacon, | argued soon after that mathematics and geometry provided a model of how sc ... |
| Rauf Yekta Bey | ... graphical shape of the accidentals. The most widely used system (created by | ) uses a system of 4 sharps (roughly +25 cents, +75 cents, +125 cents and ... |
| Eudoxus | Libra is a constellation not mentioned by | or Aratus. In Roman mythology, Libra is considered to depict the scales he ... |
| Benjamin Franklin | The colonies were independent of each other before 1774 as efforts led by | to form a colonial union through the Albany Congress of 1765 had not made ... |
| Max Weber | ... ns and nationalism include: Henry Maine, Ferdinand Tönnies, Emile Durkheim, | , and Talcott Parsons |
| Sigmund Freud | ... husser describes these changes as "overdetermined", using a term taken from | . This interpretation allows us to account for the way in which many diffe ... |
| Wangari Maathai | ... has been awarded to a diverse group of people and organisations, including | , Astrid Lindgren, Bianca Jagger, Mordechai Vanunu, Petra Kelly and Memori ... |
| Pursh | Bitterroot (Lewisia rediviva | ) is a small, low plant with a pink to white flower. It is the state flowe ... |
| John Gorton | | , Prime Minister of Australia from 1968–1971, initiated several forms of G ... |
| Matteo Ricci | ... d by the overland route. By c. 1600, the Jesuits stationed in China, led by | , were pretty sure that it was, but others were not convinced yet. To chec ... |
| Jean Orry | ... the finances along lines that had been established by the French economist | |
| Oswald Avery | ... a candidate genetic molecule. In the 1944 Avery-MacLeod-McCarty experiment, | and his collaborators showed that a heritable phenotypic difference could ... |
| R. C. Tolman | ... a Rockefeller Foundation Scholar. There he met the theoretical cosmologist | , and studied relativistic cosmology |
| Paul Ehrenfest | In 1920, | showed that if we fix T = 1 and let N > 3, the orbit of a planet about its ... |
| Joan Crawford | Davis and | played two aging sisters, former actresses forced by circumstance to share ... |
| John Gorrie | ... in 1805, Jacob Perkins patented the first refrigerating machine in 1834 and | patented his mechanical refrigeration machine in 1851 in the US to make ic ... |
| Mill | ... as the central error of certain moral theories, such as those propounded by | and Sidgwick. Since then, the term has become common in English-language e ... |
| Stephen A. Kent | ... nwashing the child to make sex abuse accusations against the other parent". | analyzes and summarizes the use of the brainwashing meme by non-sociologis ... |
| Ferdinand Tönnies | ... e modernist interpretation of nations and nationalism include: Henry Maine, | , Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, and Talcott Parsons |
| Jan Ingenhousz | In 1778, | , court physician to the Austrian Empress, repeated Priestley's experiment ... |
| E. F. Schumacher | Distributism is known to have had an influence on the economist | , a convert to Catholicism |
| Avicenna | ... dence of political analysis, while the Middle Eastern Aristotelians such as | and later Maimonides and Averroes, continued Aristotle's tradition of anal ... |
| Lewis Carroll | ... hed patients, most notably The Reverend Charles L. Dodgson (better known as | ) who had been a regular visitor to Ore House |
| Marlon Brando | ... ish state in Israel. Directed by Stella Adler's brother and acted alongside | . Ten years later, in 1955-1956, he had his biggest stage success as the c ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... cases considered significant to the history of religious freedom. In 1779, | wrote the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, enacted in 1786 by the V ... |
| Israel Lyons | ... sumed) contribution to the work of Mayer, £50 each to Richard Dunthorne and | for contributing methods to shorten the calculations connected with lunar ... |
| Jacob Perkins | ... iver Evans designed the first closed circuit refrigeration machine in 1805, | patented the first refrigerating machine in 1834 and John Gorrie patented ... |
| Martin Rodbell | G proteins were discovered when Alfred G. Gilman and | investigated stimulation of cells by adrenaline. They found that, when adr ... |
| Alan Walters | ... Lawson and Thatcher and was exacerbated by the re-employment by Thatcher of | as personal economic adviser. Lawson's conduct of policy had become a stru ... |
| Lyman Spitzer | ... ion. It is one of the earliest controlled fusion devices, first invented by | in 1950 and built the next year at what later became the Princeton Plasma ... |
| Ulric Neisser | | coined the term "cognitive psychology" in his book Cognitive Psychology, p ... |
| Nissim ben Reuben Gerondi | ... reasoning are obligatory upon Jew and Gentile alike. The 14th century Rabbi | added the commandment of charity |
| Murray Gell-Mann | The word quark was coined by American physicist | (b. 1929) in its present sense. It originally comes from the phrase "Three ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... e of conservative neoliberal politicians such as Ronald Reagan in the U.S., | in Britain, and Brian Mulroney in Canada, the Western welfare state was at ... |
| Talcott Parsons | ... ism include: Henry Maine, Ferdinand Tönnies, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, and | |
| Democritus | ... final causes, and was therefore materialist, like the ancient philosophy of | and Epicurus. But he also added a theme that science should seek to contro ... |
| Joseph Schumpeter | ... c claims Weber makes in his historical analysis. For example, the economist | argued that capitalism did not begin with the Industrial Revolution but in ... |
| Joseph Priestley | ... ant's biomass comes from the inputs of photosynthesis, not the soil itself. | , a chemist and minister, discovered that, when he isolated a volume of ai ... |
| Sigmund Freud | ... of the story. Film historian Stuart M. Kaminsky notes that Huston presents | , played by Montgomery Clift, "as a kind of savior and messiah", with an " ... |
| François Perroux | ... lude: Edward H. Chamberlin's (1950) The Theory of Monopolistic Competition | ;'s (1950) Economic Spaces: Theory and Application; Torsten Hägerstrand's ... |
| Lamberto Dini | ... government was succeeded by a technical government headed by Prime Minister | , which left office in early 1996 |
| Rudolf Clausius | In 1865, the German physicist | , in his Mechanical Theory of Heat, suggested that the principles of therm ... |
| Isaac Newton | ... greatest scientific minds of the day to work on the problem, including Sir | , and put up prizes for those who could demonstrate a working device or me ... |
| Piet Hein | The game was invented by the Danish mathematician | , who introduced it in 1942 at the Niels Bohr Institute. It was independen ... |
| Rupert Murdoch | After | , the head of Fox Studios and an Australian, saw the new Fox studios were ... |
| Marilyn Monroe | ... he star, died of a heart attack a few days before the filming was completed | ;never did another film and died of apparent suicide a year later; and cos ... |
| Benjamin Franklin | ... the first official U.S. stamps were created, 5 and 10 cent issues depicting | and George Washington. A few other countries issued stamps in the late 184 ... |
| Ludwig Boltzmann | In 1871, | generalized Maxwell's achievement and formulated the Maxwell–Boltzmann dis ... |
| C. Wright Mills | ... itings were produced by such sociological luminaries as Talcott Parsons and | . Parsons in particular imparted to Weber's works a functionalist, teleolo ... |
| Noam Chomsky | ... ate 1950s and early 1960s following the "cognitive revolution" initiated by | 's 1959 critique of behaviorism and empiricism more generally. The origins ... |
| Josef Maria Eder | ... some of its practical shortcomings were addressed by the Austrian scientist | (1855–1944) and Flemish-born botanist (1896–1960), (who, in 1919/1920, joi ... |
| Aristotle | ... Aristotelians such as Avicenna and later Maimonides and Averroes, continued | 's tradition of analysis and empiricism, writing commentaries on Aristotle ... |
| Robert Axelrod | ... ender and receiver of that help, this tendency has been noted in studies by | that are summarized in his book The Evolution of Cooperation (1984). The s ... |
| Nicolas-Théodore de Saussure | ... on dioxide and release oxygen under the influence of light. Soon afterward, | showed that the increase in mass of the plant as it grows could not be due ... |
| Simon Kuznets | ... ch as social and environmental concerns. Examples of externalities include: | in his very first report to the US Congress in 1934 said: ...the welfare o ... |
| Sean B. Carroll | ... in the evolution of morphological diversity. Several biologists, including | of the University of Wisconsin–Madison suggest that "changes in the cis-re ... |
| Averroes | ... the Middle Eastern Aristotelians such as Avicenna and later Maimonides and | , continued Aristotle's tradition of analysis and empiricism, writing comm ... |
| Alan Turing | ... traced back as early as Descartes in the 17th century, and proceeding up to | in the 1940s and '50s. The cognitive approach was brought to prominence by ... |
| Boethius | ... h century, believed that Asser also assisted Alfred with his translation of | |
| Richard Ofshe | ... areer as an expert witness ended at this time. She was meant to appear with | in the 1990 U.S. v. Fishman Case, in which Steven Fishman claimed to have ... |
| Jean Senebier | In 1796, | , a Swiss pastor, botanist, and naturalist, demonstrated that green plants ... |
| Oliver Stone | ... lick, David Cronenberg, Mike Nichols, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg and | . He has had a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame since 1989. In televisio ... |
| Julius Scheiner | The Scheinergrade (Sch.) system was devised by the German astronomer | (1858–1913) in 1894 originally as a method of comparing the speeds of plat ... |
| Michael Faraday | ... pard Monge liquefied the first gas producing liquid sulfur dioxide in 1784. | liquefied ammonia to cause cooling, Oliver Evans designed the first closed ... |
| Theodor W. Adorno | ... he latter half of the 20th century to a realization of its unattainability. | said in 1970, "It is now taken for granted that nothing which concerns art ... |
| Max Horkheimer | Weber has influenced many later social theorists, such as Theodor Adorno, | , György Lukács and Jürgen Habermas. Different elements of his thought wer ... |
| Aristotle | ( , trans. Colburn) | also found cause to quote him |
| A. S. Eddington | ... which Dingle considered overly speculative and not based on empirical data. | was another target of Dingle's critique, and the ensuing debate eventually ... |
| Romano Prodi | ... tions led to the victory of a centre-left coalition under the leadership of | . Prodi's first government became the third-longest to stay in power befor ... |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | ... ime to read the works of Homer, William Shakespeare, Friedrich Schiller and | , and he saw London, Niagara Falls, and Rio de Janeiro during his stops in ... |
| Mwai Kibaki | ... s of the National Rainbow Coalition (NaRC) to parliament and NaRC candidate | (b. 1931) to the presidency. Voters rejected the Kenya African National Un ... |
| Proclus | ... of the Goddess from the Parthenon, a beautiful woman appeared in a dream to | , a devotee of Athena, and announced that the "Athenian Lady" wished to dw ... |
| Albert Einstein | ... etical constructs, rather than real objects. An important turning point was | 's (1905) and Marian Smoluchowski's (1906 |
| Gaspard Monge | ... umented public demonstration of artificial refrigeration by William Cullen, | liquefied the first gas producing liquid sulfur dioxide in 1784. Michael F ... |
| Julius Pokorny | ... ho of the ancient fame of the magic hand of Nodens the Catcher". Similarly, | derives the name from a Proto-Indo-European root *neu-d- meaning "acquire, ... |
| William F. Albright | ... am was succeeded by his son, Ahaz in the seventeenth year of Pekah's reign. | has dated his reign to 737 – 732 BC, while E. R. Thiele, following H. J. C ... |
| Martin Kamen | Samuel Ruben and | used radioactive isotopes to determine that the oxygen liberated in photos ... |
| Aristotle | ... enes, Lysias, Isocrates and many others. The Attic Greek of the philosopher | (384-322 BC), whose mentor was Plato, dates from the period of transition ... |
| Gilbert N. Lewis | ... 1923 textbook Thermodynamics and the Free Energy of Chemical Substances by | and Merle Randall. This book was responsible for supplanting the chemical ... |
| Mwai Kibaki | ... s routed the ruling KANU party, and its leader, Moi's former vice-president | , was elected President by a large majority |
| Doris Day | ... year, plus unlimited access to MCA's clients such as Stewart, Rock Hudson, | and Alfred Hitchcock to make films for Universal |
| Eratosthenes | ... the earliest Christian scholars to estimate the circumference of Earth with | ' method. Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274), the most important and widely taught ... |
| Jürgen Habermas | ... social theorists, such as Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, György Lukács and | . Different elements of his thought were emphasized by Carl Schmitt, Josep ... |
| Arthur von Oettingen | ... d extension of the notation principles first used by Hermann von Helmholtz, | and Alexander John Ellis which is rapidly becoming adopted by musicians wo ... |
| Tobias Mayer | ... rrison before he received his main prize, an award of £3000 to the widow of | , whose lunar tables were the basis of the lunar data in the early decades ... |
| Arthur Koestler | ... force is guiding the course of biological evolution was the science writer | (1967, 1978). Koestler provided examples of evolutionary development that ... |
| Graeme Barker | ... ep and goats reached Egypt from the Near East possibly as early as 6000 BC. | states "The first indisputable evidence for domestic plants and animals in ... |
| Claudius James Rich | ... with the purchase of Assyrian and Babylonian antiquities from the widow of | |
| Carl Jung | Collective unconscious is a term of analytical psychology, coined by | . It is proposed to be a part of the unconscious mind, expressed in humani ... |
| Hermann von Helmholtz | ... a modern adaptation and extension of the notation principles first used by | , Arthur von Oettingen and Alexander John Ellis which is rapidly becoming ... |
| Varshni | ... he relationship between band gap energy and temperature can be described by | 's empirical expression |
| Albert Einstein | ... Astronomical Society from 1951 to 1953, is best known for his opposition to | 's special theory of relativity and the protracted controversy that this p ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | ... ame Nuada probably derives from a Celtic stem *noudont- or *noudent-, which | suggested was related to a Germanic root meaning "acquire, have the use of ... |
| Wolverine | ... ishop, and Gambit — who became one of the most popular X-Men (rivaling even | in size of fanbase), but many of the later additions to the team came and ... |
| Carl von Weizsäcker | ... are born in the CNO cycle. The CNO-I process was independently proposed by | and Hans Bethe in 1938 and 1939, respectively |
| Joseph Cornell | ... in the collections of New York artist, sculptor and experimental filmmaker | . One rare original Little Prince watercolour would be mysteriously sold a ... |
| Noam Chomsky | ... ch broader layers of the population, and were championed by figures such as | . The 2003 invasion of Iraq led to a significant anti-war movement in whic ... |
| Walter Isard | ... plines. Regional science's formal roots date to the aggressive campaigns by | and his supporters to promote the "objective" and "scientific" analysis of ... |
| Esther Lederberg | ... a test tube. However, some people (such as fellow researcher and colleague | ) thought that Crick's views were overly optimisti |
| Eugene Wigner | ... fundamental. First, the particles were classified by charge and isospin by | and Werner Heisenberg; then, in 1953, according to strangeness by Murray G ... |
| William Cullen | ... – The first documented public demonstration of artificial refrigeration by | , Gaspard Monge liquefied the first gas producing liquid sulfur dioxide in ... |
| Marinus of Neapolis | This role is expressed in a number of stories about Athena. | reports that when Christians removed the statue of the Goddess from the Pa ... |
| Gregor Mendel | ... In Crick’s view, Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection, | ’s genetics and knowledge of the molecular basis of genetics, when combine ... |
| Donald Broadbent | ... in the 1940s and '50s. The cognitive approach was brought to prominence by | 's book Perception and Communication in 1958. Since that time, the dominan ... |
| Leonardo da Vinci | ... ernardino Ferrari and others, as well as tempera polyptych of the school of | |
| Marian Smoluchowski | ... n real objects. An important turning point was Albert Einstein's (1905) and | 's (1906 |
| Paul Kammerer | ... lf study, and kept studying on his own. His neighbour, the famous biologist | , became a mentor and an example to the young Ludwig. In 1918 he started h ... |
| Merle Randall | ... dynamics and the Free Energy of Chemical Substances by Gilbert N. Lewis and | . This book was responsible for supplanting the chemical affinity for the ... |
| Carl Schmitt | ... s and Jürgen Habermas. Different elements of his thought were emphasized by | , Joseph Schumpeter, Leo Strauss, Hans Morgenthau, and Raymond Aron. Accor ... |
| Pliny | ... Classical sources on the Seres (Greek and Roman name of China) (essentially | and Ptolemy) gives the following account |
| Persi Diaconis | Born in Far Rockaway, New York, his first career (like | a generation later) was stage magic. He then earned a BSc from the Univers ... |
| Blaise Pascal | ... titution which would greatly influence other contemporary figures including | . Port-Royal was run by followers of Jansenism, a theology condemned as he ... |
| Brethren of Purity | ... hīr al-dīn al-Bayhaqī (d. 1169) considered Avicenna to be a follower of the | . excerpt: " ... [Dimitri Gutas's Avicenna's maḏhab] convincingly demonstr ... |
| Joan Crawford | ... ing down at traffic from a large floodlit billboard. Years later, MGM rival | would disparagingly refer to Shearer as "Miss Lotta Miles" |
| Carmel Schrire | ... tes of the frequency of newborn female infanticide in the Inuit population. | mentions diverse studies ranging from 15-50% to 80% |
| Martin Seligman | Psychologist | provides the acronym PERMA to summarize Positive Psychology's correlationa ... |
| Louis Jolyon West | ... : Behavior, Experience, and Theory (1975), senior US government researchers | and Ronald K. Siegel explain how drug prohibition can be used for selectiv ... |
| Jung | ... e. A later figure was Viktor Frankl, who briefly met Freud and studied with | as a young man. His logotherapy can be regarded as a form of existentialis ... |
| Joseph Priestley | ... of his attempt to investigate the law of electrical repulsions as stated by | in England |
| George Davis Snell | ... Owen Chamberlain (Physics, 1959), K. Barry Sharpless (Chemistry, 2001), and | (Physiology or Medicine, 1980). Educators include the current chancellor o ... |
| Vernor Vinge | The poem was referenced in | 's hard science fiction novel A Fire Upon the Deep |
| Sergey Korolyov | After the flight of Yuri Gagarin in 1961, | , the chief Soviet rocket engineer, came up with the idea of putting a wom ... |
| Pliny the Elder | ... f Ptolemaic Egypt and contemporary of Ashoka the Great, is also recorded by | as having sent an ambassador named Dionysius to the Mauryan court |
| René Girard | Philosopher of social science | mentions Mirandola passingly in his book Des choses cachées depuis la fond ... |
| Eudoxus of Cnidus | Athenaeus (392d) summarizes a story by | (c. 355 BCE ) telling how Heracles the son of Zeus by Asteria (= ‘Ashtart ... |
| Muhammad al-Idrisi | ... brew word, as string-like shapes made of semolina and dried before cooking. | , wrote in 1154 that itriyya was manufactured and exported from Norman Sic ... |
| Yosef Garfinkel | ... t. In 1997–1998, a large scale salvage project was conducted at the site by | on behalf of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and nearly 1,000 sq.m were ... |
| Ray Lankester | ... nimal testing. The legislation was promoted by Charles Darwin, who wrote to | in March 1871: "You ask about my opinion on vivisection. I quite agree tha ... |
| Ray Hyman | ... nnual Prize in Critical Thinking. The first award was shared by CSI fellows | and Joe Nickell and by Andrew Skolnick for their reports in 2005 on CSICOP ... |
| Suzette Haden Elgin | ... print titles. One of these titles, The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense by | , has sold over 250,000 copies. The reissued edition of The Columbia Histo ... |
| Victor S. Miller | ... ptic curves in cryptography was suggested independently by Neal Koblitz and | in 1985 |
| Joseph Fourier’s | ... to experimental phenomena, most influentially with the French mathematician | analytical treatment of the flow of heat, as published in 1822 |
| Sandman (Wesley Dodds) | ... prison. He also appeared occasionally as the inspiration for the Golden Age | in the pages of Sandman Mystery Theatre |
| Leó Szilárd | ... ling hands". In 1932, the physicist and conceiver of nuclear chain reaction | read The World Set Free, a book which he said made a great impression on h ... |
| Niels Bohr | ... ed the strange properties of the photoelectric effect. The Danish physicist | used this same constant in 1913 to explain the stability of Rutherford’s a ... |
| Neal Koblitz | ... . The use of elliptic curves in cryptography was suggested independently by | and Victor S. Miller in 1985 |
| Rupert Murdoch | ... ds. The party benefited from the support of the proprietor of News Limited, | , who preferred Whitlam over McMahon. Labor was so dominant in the campaig ... |
| Gerald Gazdar | ... ars (CFGs) in terms of their weak generative capacity were later disproved. | and Geoffrey Pullum have argued that despite a few non-context-free constr ... |
| Luigi Galvani | In the late 18th century the Italian physician and anatomist | marked the birth of electrochemistry by establishing a bridge between chem ... |
| Greg Kuperberg | ... e Development and Envelopment at MIT, which was posted on Usenet in 1989 by | , who wrote |
| Alan Sokal | ... ntific retention of untested and untestable theories continues to this day. | published an analysis of the wide acceptance among professional nurses of ... |
| Kay Kyser and His Kollege of Musical Knowledge | ... nny Werblin as his right-hand man. Wasserman helped create MCA's radio show | , which debuted on NBC Radio that same year. Following that success, Stein ... |
| Owen Chamberlain | ... d "genius grants"). Dartmouth has also graduated three Nobel Prize winners: | (Physics, 1959), K. Barry Sharpless (Chemistry, 2001), and George Davis Sn ... |
| Ptolemy | ... long been considered the oldest city of Poland because it was mentioned by | in the 2nd century A.D., but the claim is now doubted by some (cf. Calisia ... |
| Charles Doolittle Walcott | Marrella was the first fossil collected by | from the Burgess Shale. Walcott described Marrella informally as a "lace c ... |
| Pliny the Elder | ... man and Arabic naturalists and physicians. Several ancient writers, such as | and Scribonius Largus, attested to the numbing effect of electric shocks d ... |
| Charles Darwin | ... fically aimed at regulating animal testing. The legislation was promoted by | , who wrote to Ray Lankester in March 1871: "You ask about my opinion on v ... |
| Pliny | Several authors of antiquity (Apollonius Rhodius, | , Philostephanus) discussed the hypothetical shape of the ship. Generally ... |
| Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac | ... expand to the same extent over the same 80 kelvin interval. Later, in 1802, | published results of similar experiments, indicating a linear relationship ... |
| Louis de Broglie | ... blished that light carries momentum and can scatter off particles, and when | asserted that matter can be seen as behaving as a wave in much the same wa ... |
| Sadi Carnot | ... e universe into question. Drawing upon the engineering theory of Lazare and | , and Émile Clapeyron; the experimentation of James Prescott Joule on the ... |
| Jacques Charles | In 1787 the French physicist | found that oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, carbon dioxide, and air expand to t ... |
| Charles François de Cisternay du Fay | By the mid—18th century the French chemist | had discovered two types of static electricity, and that like charges repe ... |
| Stanley Rossiter Benedict | ... or Benedict's test) is a chemical reagent named after an American chemist, | |
| Joe Nickell | ... Critical Thinking. The first award was shared by CSI fellows Ray Hyman and | and by Andrew Skolnick for their reports in 2005 on CSICOP's testing of Na ... |
| Edme Mariotte | The above relationship has also been attributed to | and is sometimes referred to as Mariotte's law. However, Mariotte's work w ... |
| Leonardo da Vinci | ... , he was apprenticed under Giovanni Francesco Rustici, a sculptor friend of | . Among his earliest works was a Saint Jerome in wax, made for Giuliano de ... |
| Frank Drake | ... ns, an idea that he had first developed informally with American astronomer | in 1975. In the novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by ... |
| Daniel Dennett | In his book "Kinds of Minds", philosopher | wrote, "Dualism...and Vitalism (the view that living things contain some s ... |
| Leonardo da Vinci | ... d as a quality inseparable from art and thus necessary for its success; for | , art, neither more nor less than his other endeavors, was a manifestation ... |
| Manfred R. Schroeder | ... in the excitating sound build up in notably different sound waves. In 1964, | published "A new method of Measuring Reverberation Time" in the Journal of ... |
| Isaac Newton | ... olars then teaching mathematics and medicine, including Dr. John Radcliffe, | , and Samuel Pepys. However, Arbuthnot lacked the money to be a full-time ... |
| Andrew Greeley | Roman Catholic priest and author | criticized liberation theology in his 2009 fictional book Irish Tweed. In ... |
| Wilhelm Grimm | Damon played a fictionalized version of | in Terry Gilliam's fantasy adventure The Brothers Grimm (2005), which was ... |
| Buys Ballot | ... ing the colour of binary stars. The Doppler effect of sound was verified by | in 1845. In Doppler's time in Prague as a professor he published over 50 a ... |
| Jacob Bronowski | ... and artists including James Reeves, Norman Cameron, John Aldridge, Len Lye, | , and Honor Wyatt. The house is now a museum. Progress of Stories (1935) w ... |
| Ira L. Baldwin | ... armaceuticals executive George W. Merck and for many years was conducted by | , professor of bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin. Baldwin became ... |
| John D. Barrow | ... of universal gravitation. While Kant's argument is historically important, | says that it "...gets the punch-line back to front: it is the three-dimens ... |
| Mary Pickford | ... 1919, Chaplin co-founded the United Artists film distribution company with | , Douglas Fairbanks and D. W. Griffith, all of whom were seeking to escape ... |
| Freud | ... rl, Heidegger and Sartre. A later figure was Viktor Frankl, who briefly met | and studied with Jung as a young man. His logotherapy can be regarded as a ... |
| Noam Chomsky | Academic | argues that Drug laws are currently, and have historically, been used by t ... |
| Jean-Baptiste Colbert | ... and for the crops. The French-enacted Code Noir ("Black Code"), prepared by | and ratified by Louis XIV, had established rules on slave treatment and pe ... |
| Wilhelm von Humboldt | The university constitution was adopted in 1827. In the spirit of | the constitution emphasized the autonomy of the university and the unity o ... |
| Lazare | ... view of the universe into question. Drawing upon the engineering theory of | and Sadi Carnot, and Émile Clapeyron; the experimentation of James Prescot ... |
| Charles-Augustin de Coulomb | ... to be opposed by Benjamin Franklin's one-fluid theory later in the century. | developed the law of electrostatic attraction in 1785 as an outgrowth of h ... |
| Carl Sagan | In his science fiction novel Contact, NASA scientist | suggested that prime numbers could be used as a means of communicating wit ... |
| Claude Bernard | ... ents on animals were necessary to advance medical and biological knowledge. | , known as the "prince of vivisectors" and the father of physiology—whose ... |
| Alcuin | ... as quoted by several writers in Britain of the 8th century - Aldhelm, Bede, | - and was abridged or largely used in the next century by Hrabanus Maurus ... |
| Sir Karl Popper | ... be able to see that I fully accept the recent philosophical achievements of | with his concept of three worlds. I was a dualist, now I am a trialist! Ca ... |
| Kurt Gödel | On its surface, GEB examines logician | , artist M. C. Escher and composer Johann Sebastian Bach, discussing commo ... |
| Kamoya Kimeu | On site, | found a Hominid fossil. Richard took it to be Homo erectus, but Louis iden ... |
| Mary Baker Eddy | Since 2010, Kilmer has been working on a film about the life of | , the founder of the Christian Science church, and Mark Twain, one of her ... |
| Thomas Johann Seebeck | ... ermoelectric currents and anticipated the discovery of thermoelectricity by | |
| Michel Maffesoli | ... o-tribalist" view akin to the "post-modernist" theory of French Sociologist | . The "re-tribalization" of the modern, mass-society world envisioned by M ... |
| Trygve Haavelmo | ... s at the University of Oslo, where he was taught by the Nobel Prize winners | and Ragnar Frisch. He graduated with the cand.oecon. degree in 1953. Since ... |
| Norbert Wiener | ... scientist combining physics and philosophy. Together with Warren McCulloch, | , John von Neumann, Lawrence J. Fogel, and others, Heinz von Foerster was ... |
| Ragnar Frisch | ... of Oslo, where he was taught by the Nobel Prize winners Trygve Haavelmo and | . He graduated with the cand.oecon. degree in 1953. Since 1951, Willoch wa ... |
| Adam Smith | | and David Hume were the founding fathers of anti-mercantilist thought. A n ... |
| Karl Marx | Highgate Cemetery is the burial place of | , Michael Faraday, Douglas Adams, George Eliot, Jacob Bronowski, Sir Ralph ... |
| Joseph Larmor | ... approach was suggested by Hendrik Lorentz along with George FitzGerald and | . Both Larmor (1897) and Lorentz (1899, 1904) derived the Lorentz transfor ... |
| Lewis Carroll | ... ing company as "a metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of | " |
| Isaac Newton | ... e same time was put on the board trying to publish the Historia coelestius. | and Edmund Halley wanted it published immediately, to support their work o ... |
| Mary Baker Eddy | ... studying spiritual healing, and being influenced by Emma Curtis Hopkins and | (the founder of Christian Science) |
| Milton Berle | ... ing. Comedians borrowed, stole stuff and even bought bits from one another. | and Robin Williams were famous for it. This was different. Leary had, prac ... |
| Aratus | ... 2, and a final summary in 1926. He cited not only Ptolemy but also the poet | , the orator Cicero, and general Germanicus as colouring the star red, tho ... |
| Werner Heisenberg | ... “quantum” rather than a “classical” mechanics, formulated in matrix-form by | , Max Born, and Pascual Jordan in 1925, were based on the probabilistic re ... |
| Alonzo Church | ... ceton University in 1959. He is one of many logicians to have studied under | |
| David Orme-Johnson | ... biguity and vague analogy supported by constructing arbitrary similarities. | and Robert Oates, retired colleagues of Hagelin from MUM, replied to this ... |
| Sigmund Freud | Psychologist, Otto Rank, a rebellious disciple of | , chose a substantial excerpt from Mirandola's Oration on the Dignity of M ... |
| Wolverine | In the aftermath of the Schism series, the fallout between | and Cyclops will lead to the revival and rebuilding of the original X-Mans ... |
| Brian Kernighan | ... ve a Wang C/A/T phototypesetter owned by the Labs; it was later enhanced by | to support output to different equipment, such as laser printers and the l ... |
| Philip J. Currie | In 2003, | , benefiting from much more extensive finds and a general increase in anat ... |
| Lawrence J. Fogel | ... ilosophy. Together with Warren McCulloch, Norbert Wiener, John von Neumann, | , and others, Heinz von Foerster was an architect of cybernetics |
| Jean-Martin Charcot | The eponym was bestowed by | (1825–1893) on behalf of his resident, Georges Albert Édouard Brutus Gille ... |
| Camille Arambourg | The expedition consisted of three contingents: French, under | , American, under Clark Howell, and Kenyan, led by Richard. Louis could no ... |
| William Thomson | ... athematical tripos training in mathematical analysis; the Glasgow physicist | and his circle of associates established a new mathematical physics relati ... |
| Max Born | ... an a “classical” mechanics, formulated in matrix-form by Werner Heisenberg, | , and Pascual Jordan in 1925, were based on the probabilistic relationship ... |
| Dale Russell | ... saurus skull material, no significant differences to separate the two taxa, | declared the name Gorgosaurus a junior synonym of Albertosaurus, which had ... |
| Otto Rank | Psychologist, | , a rebellious disciple of Sigmund Freud, chose a substantial excerpt from ... |
| George FitzGerald | A more theoretical approach was suggested by Hendrik Lorentz along with | and Joseph Larmor. Both Larmor (1897) and Lorentz (1899, 1904) derived the ... |
| Lex Luthor | ... esentations of the Flash (Barry Allen), Earth-2 Superman, the Anti-Monitor, | , and Brainiac. The third and final wave included action figure representa ... |
| Marilyn Monroe | ... d was photographed by Stephen Wayda. Smith said she planned to be "the next | ". Becoming one of Playboys most popular models, Smith was heavier and lar ... |
| Michael Persinger | Recent studies into Remote Viewing suggest positive results. | , Cognitive Neuroscientist and professor at Laurentian University has publ ... |
| John von Neumann | ... ing physics and philosophy. Together with Warren McCulloch, Norbert Wiener, | , Lawrence J. Fogel, and others, Heinz von Foerster was an architect of cy ... |
| Eugene Koonin | ... oups led by Stephen Altschul (another BLAST co-author), David Landsman, and | (a prolific author on comparative genomics) |
| William Hyde Wollaston | By the 1810s | made improvements to the galvanic cell |
| John James Audubon | ... squirrels," probably in reference to the sound they make. In the mid-1800s, | and his sons included a lithograph of the chipmunk in their Viviparous Qua ... |
| Miguel León-Portilla | According to | , in this new vision from Tlacaelel, the warriors that died in battle and ... |
| Alan Lloyd Hodgkin | ... ine for his work on the synapse. He shared the prize with Andrew Huxley and | |
| Jacob Grimm | | theorized that Hel (whom he refers to here as Halja, the theorized Proto-G ... |
| John Ehrlichman | ... ased on Richard Helms) in Washington: Behind Closed Doors, an adaptation of | 's roman a clef The Company, in turn based on the Watergate scandal |
| Wallace Clement Sabine | In the late 19th century, | started experiments at Harvard University to investigate the impact of abs ... |
| William James' | | views were ambivalent. While he believed in free will on "ethical grounds, ... |
| Andrew Huxley | ... hysiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse. He shared the prize with | and Alan Lloyd Hodgkin |
| Howard Hawks | In 1959, Wayne teamed up with director | to make Rio Bravo as a conservative response. Hawks explained, "I made Rio ... |
| Pascual Jordan | ... l” mechanics, formulated in matrix-form by Werner Heisenberg, Max Born, and | in 1925, were based on the probabilistic relationship between discrete “st ... |
| Samuel Johnson | Conversely, in 1774, | published The Patriot, a critique of what he viewed as false patriotism. O ... |
| Ida C. Ward | ... uahia, Eastern Nigeria. From its proposal as a literary form in 1939 by Dr. | , it was gradually accepted by missionaries, writers, and publishers acros ... |
| Daniel Garrison Brinton | ... of Nagualism was initiated by noted archaeologist, linguist and ethnologist | who published which chronicled historical interpretations of the word and ... |
| Hendrik Lorentz | A more theoretical approach was suggested by | along with George FitzGerald and Joseph Larmor. Both Larmor (1897) and Lor ... |
| Johann Wilhelm Ritter | In 1800, William Nicholson and | succeeded in decomposing water into hydrogen and oxygen by electrolysis. S ... |
| James Clerk Maxwell | ... Electricity and Magnetism, an 1873 treatise on electromagnetism written by | , eleven general equations of the electromagnetic field are listed and the ... |
| Stephen Altschul | ... tics. He also leads an intramural research program, including groups led by | (another BLAST co-author), David Landsman, and Eugene Koonin (a prolific a ... |
| Douglas Hofstadter | ... del, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (commonly GEB) is a 1979 book by | , described by his publishing company as "a metaphorical fugue on minds an ... |
| Éamon de Valera | ... ns. As President of Dáil Éireann (Priomh Aire, or literally First Minister) | was the highest official in the Republic at this time but was notionally o ... |
| Theodore H. Blau | ... 06) in 1988 (with a broad focus on the science and research of psychology). | was the first clinician in independent practice to be elected president of ... |
| Murray Barr | A Barr body (named after discoverer | ) is the inactive X chromosome in a female somatic cell, rendered inactive ... |
| Rachel Bromwich | ... orrowing of Caledfwlch from Irish Caladbolg has been considered unlikely by | and D. Simon Evans. They suggest instead that both names "may have similar ... |
| Michael Billig | Others, such as | or Jean Bethke Elshtain argue that the difference is difficult to discern ... |
| Plato | ... cient roots; indeed, it originated almost 2,500 years ago with the works of | and |
| Alessandro Volta | Galvani's scientific colleagues generally accepted his views, but | rejected the idea of an "animal electric fluid," replying that the frog's ... |
| Umberto Eco | In | 's novel Foucault's Pendulum the protagonist Casaubon claims that the idea ... |
| Michael Faraday | Highgate Cemetery is the burial place of Karl Marx, | , Douglas Adams, George Eliot, Jacob Bronowski, Sir Ralph Richardson, Chri ... |
| Sheila Jeffreys | Even some radical feminist writers, such as | (1985) were dismissive, claiming it as a figment of male fantasy |
| John Playfair | ... tatements of his geological ideas (though not his thoughts on evolution) by | in 1802 and then Charles Lyell in the 1830s popularised the concept of an ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | The Black Speech is a fictional language created by | |
| Gene Amdahl | ... l's law, also known as Amdahl's argument, is named after computer architect | , and is used to find the maximum expected improvement to an overall syste ... |
| John von Neumann | He knew well and was in conversation with | , Norbert Wiener, Humberto Maturana, Francisco Varela, Gordon Pask, Gregor ... |
| André-Marie Ampère | ... aking advance, although he left further work on electromagnetism to others. | quickly repeated Oestred's experiment, and formulated them mathematically |
| Joseph C. Keating, Jr. | ... oncept of "innate". For example, in a paper named "The Meanings of Innate", | says that "Innate Intelligence" in chiropractic can be used to represent f ... |
| Raymond Barre | ... alry appeared with his prime minister Jacques Chirac, who resigned in 1976. | , called the "best economist in France", succeeded him. He led a policy of ... |
| Georgy Voronoi | ... is not greater than their distance to the other objects. It is named after | , and is also called a Voronoi tessellation, a Voronoi decomposition, or a ... |
| Franz Unger | ... he University of Vienna in 1850. During his time there, Doppler, along with | , played an influential role in the development of young Gregor Mendel, kn ... |
| Albert Einstein | The concept of fields was introduced by, among others, Faraday. | wrote |
| Elman Service | ... lier developed by anthropologists Morton H. Fried, a conflict theorist, and | , an integration theorist, who have produced a system of classification fo ... |
| Charles Lyell | ... as (though not his thoughts on evolution) by John Playfair in 1802 and then | in the 1830s popularised the concept of an infinitely repeating cycle, tho ... |
| Adam Smith | ... therlands remained supreme in this field. Due to its popularity at the time | 's Wealth of Nations was banned due to its criticism of government control ... |
| Gregor Mendel | ... ng with Franz Unger, played an influential role in the development of young | , known as the founding father of genetics, who was a student at the Unive ... |
| Thomas Johann Seebeck | In 1821, Estonian-German physicist | demonstrated the electrical potential in the juncture points of two dissim ... |
| Robert Boyle | Further work was conducted by Otto von Guericke, | , Stephen Gray and C. F. du Fay. In the 18th century, Benjamin Franklin co ... |
| Norbert Wiener | He knew well and was in conversation with John von Neumann, | , Humberto Maturana, Francisco Varela, Gordon Pask, Gregory Bateson, Lawre ... |
| Wilhelm Weber | ... n theoretical work by German theoreticians such as Carl Friedrich Gauss and | . The encapsulation of heat in particulate motion, and the addition of ele ... |
| Kamoya Kimeu | ... ive details. Bored, he returned to Nairobi temporarily, but at that moment, | discovered a fossil of Australopithecus boisei. A second expedition left R ... |
| Pierre Curie | ... that certain kinds of matter emit radiation on their own accord. Marie and | coined the term “radioactivity” to describe this property of matter, and i ... |
| Jacob Bronowski | ... he burial place of Karl Marx, Michael Faraday, Douglas Adams, George Eliot, | , Sir Ralph Richardson, Christina Rossetti, Sir Sidney Nolan, Alexander Li ... |
| Joseph L. Goldstein | ... art of this signaling pathway was clarified by Dr. Michael S. Brown and Dr. | in the 1970s. In 1985, they received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medi ... |
| Jean-Baptiste Colbert | ... re introduced. The height of French mercantilism is closely associated with | , finance minister for 22 years in the 17th century, to the extent that Fr ... |
| Humberto Maturana | He knew well and was in conversation with John von Neumann, Norbert Wiener, | , Francisco Varela, Gordon Pask, Gregory Bateson, Lawrence J. Fogel and Ma ... |
| Richard Feynman | ... hen later confirmed experimentally by Heinrich Hertz in 1887. The physicist | predicted that, "The American Civil War will pale into provincial insignif ... |
| Peter Woit | Critics of Hagelin have included physicist | and journalist Christopher Andersen. Peter Woit in his book, Not Even Wron ... |
| James Dobson | ... We Are Family Foundation video promoting tolerance, which was criticized by | of Focus on the Family because of the foundation's link to homosexuality |
| Samuel Hahnemann | The founder of homeopathy, | , promoted an immaterial, vitalistic view of disease: "...they are solely ... |
| Charles Darwin | ... ks had widespread influence, not least on the up and coming young geologist | who read them with enthusiasm during his voyage on the Beagle, and has bee ... |
| Georg Ohm | In 1827, the German scientist | expressed his law in this famous book "Die galvanische Kette, mathematisch ... |
| G. Stanley Hall | ... July 1892 at Clark University by a group of 26 men. Its first president was | . There are currently 56 divisions in the APA, and it is affiliated with 6 ... |
| Heinrich Hertz’s | ... er”, and the seeming confirmation of that prediction with Helmholtz student | 1888 detection of electromagnetic radiation, was a major triumph for physi ... |
| Thomas Jefferson Jackson See | ... s in 1839, possibly influenced by witnessing Eta Carinae two years earlier. | resurrected discussion on red Sirius with the publication of several paper ... |
| Glynn Isaac | ... or fossils in a Land Rover, but could find none, until his parents assigned | to go with him. Louis was so impressed with their finds that he gave them ... |
| Heinrich Hertz | ... electromagnetic wave. This fact was then later confirmed experimentally by | in 1887. The physicist Richard Feynman predicted that, "The American Civil ... |
| William Whewell | ... ibed as Lyell's first disciple. In a comment on the arguments of the 1830s, | coined the term uniformitarianism to describe Lyell's version of the ideas ... |
| Humphry Davy | Sir | 's work with electrolysis led to the conclusion that the production of ele ... |
| Gerhard Schrader | ... many's discovery of the nerve agents tabun (in 1937) and sarin (in 1939) by | , a chemist of IG Farben |
| Jean Baudrillard | ... and its value, Paul Hegarty (2007) cites the work of noted cultural critics | , Georges Bataille and Theodor Adorno and through their work traces the hi ... |
| Hans Krebs | ... arly 20th century. One of the most prolific of these modern biochemists was | who made huge contributions to the study of metabolism. He discovered the ... |
| Norman Finkelstein | ... best we're likely to see – on the [one-sided diplomacy] Miller describes." | published an article in the winter 2007 issue of Journal of Palestine Stud ... |
| Ernest Rutherford | ... perty of matter, and isolated the radioactive elements radium and polonium. | and Frederick Soddy identified two of Becquerel’s forms of radiation with ... |
| Harold Urey | | discovered the isotope deuterium in 1931 and was later able to concentrate ... |
| Johannes Kepler | ... ia that commonly develops as a symptom of aging. It was not until 1604 that | published the first correct explanation as to why convex and concave lense ... |
| Otto von Guericke | Further work was conducted by | , Robert Boyle, Stephen Gray and C. F. du Fay. In the 18th century, Benjam ... |
| Oliver Heaviside | The origin of the loading coil can be found in the work of | on the theory of transmission lines. Heaviside (1881) represented the line ... |
| Hans Christian Ørsted | ... from their compounds and of the alkaline earth metals from theirs in 1808. | 's discovery of the magnetic effect of electrical currents in 1820 was imm ... |
| George Friedman | ... Peace Treaty, the first ever between Israel and an Arab state. According to | , the war gave the Israelis increased respect for the Egyptian military an ... |
| Mustapa Mohamed | ... condensates per year. In 2004, Minister in the Prime Minister's Department, | , revealed that Malaysia's oil reserves stood at while natural gas reserve ... |
| Benjamin Franklin | The American scientist | , who suffered from both myopia and presbyopia, invented bifocals. Serious ... |
| Frederick Soddy | ... solated the radioactive elements radium and polonium. Ernest Rutherford and | identified two of Becquerel’s forms of radiation with electrons and the el ... |
| John Flamsteed | ... ley wanted it published immediately, to support their work on orbits, while | , the Royal Astronomer whose observations they were, wanted to keep the da ... |
| Felix Hausdorff | ... itzerland for refusing to swear an oath to Hitler. The Jewish mathematician | was expelled from the university in 1935 and committed suicide after learn ... |
| William Diller Matthew | ... valid Albertosaurus material were reassigned to a different genus: in 1922 | renamed A. sarcophagus into Deinodon sarcophagus and in 1939 German paleon ... |
| Manmohan Singh | ... nistration of the affairs of the executive. The incumbent prime minister is | , in office since 22 May 2004 |
| Scott Fahlman | Zawinski's early career included stints with | 's Lisp research group at Carnegie Mellon University, Expert Technologies, ... |
| Alison Elliot | ... until 2004 that a woman was chosen to be Moderator of the General Assembly. | was also the first non-minister to be chosen since George Buchanan, four c ... |
| Robert L. Park | ... te declined, but gang fighting resulted in ten murders in a 36 hour period. | , research professor and former chair of the Physics Department at the Uni ... |
| Margaret Mead | ... rana, Francisco Varela, Gordon Pask, Gregory Bateson, Lawrence J. Fogel and | , among many others. He influenced generations of students as a teacher an ... |
| Charles Darwin | ... ular conditions and was evidence of benevolent design in nature. Studies of | 's notebooks have shown that Darwin arrived separately at the idea of natu ... |
| Roger Bacon | ... to "read the smallest letters at incredible distances". A few years later, | is also known to have written on the magnifying properties of lenses in 12 ... |
| Luigi Galvani | In 1791, | published his discovery of bioelectricity, demonstrating that electricity ... |
| William Beveridge | In the UK, the Labour Party was influenced by the British social reformer | , who had identified five "Giant Evils" afflicting the working class of th ... |
| Dionysius Thrax | Because nouns and adjectives share these three categories, | does not clearly distinguish between the two, and uses the term ónoma "nam ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... the 1979 elections resulted in the victory of its Conservative Party under | in 1979. Industrialized countries, except Japan, experienced an economic r ... |
| Jacques Loeb | ... opmental biology, but this criticism goes back at least a century. In 1912, | published a landmark work, The Mechanistic Conception of Life. He describe ... |
| Aristotle | As a teenager, he was greatly troubled by the Metaphysics of | , which he could not understand until he read al-Farabi's commentary on th ... |
| Richard Kuhn | The nerve agent soman was later discovered by Nobel Prize laureate | and his collaborator Konrad Henkel at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Med ... |
| Kamoya Kimeu | ... a Land Rover, and went into the trapping and skeleton supply business with | . Already a skilled horseman, outdoorsman, Land Rover mechanic, archaeolog ... |
| George Ashley Campbell | The Campbell equation is a relationship due to | for predicting the propagation constant of a loaded line. It is stated a |
| Seymour Cray | ... ere introduced in the 1960s. Early supercomputer architectures pioneered by | relied on compact innovative designs and local parallelism to achieve supe ... |
| Oliver Stone | In the 2004 | film Alexander, Antigonus is played by Ian Beattie |
| Adam Smith | ... to the remainder of society in this sense may be deemed to be "antisocial". | wrote that a society "may subsist among different men, as among different ... |
| Nikola Tesla | In 1891, | established his Houston Street laboratory. Much of Tesla's research was lo ... |
| James Q. Wilson | ... n windows policing was another, related approach introduced in the 1980s by | and George L. Kelling, who suggested that police should pay greater attent ... |
| Georgy Fedoseevich Voronoi | Voronoi diagrams are named after Russian mathematician | (or Voronoy) who defined and studied the general n-dimensional case in 190 ... |
| Richard Wiseman | Professor | , a psychologist at the University of Hertfordshire and a fellow of the Co ... |
| George de Hevesy | ... ewis isolated the first sample of pure heavy water by electrolysis in 1933. | and Hoffer used heavy water in 1934 in one of the first biological tracer ... |
| Bill Dally | ... he CSX700 (2008) has 192. Stream Processors is headed by computer architect | . Their Storm-1 processor (2007) contains 80 SIMD cores controlled by a MI ... |
| Svante Arrhenius | ... forerunner to the world's first widely used battery, the zinc carbon cell. | published his thesis in 1884 on Recherches sur la conductibilité galvaniqu ... |
| Juan Bautista Villalpando | ... ders and an unknown Temple plan (possible derived from the Jesuit architect | who produced a classical reconstruction of the sanctum sanctorum at the he ... |
| Peter Norvig | ... rnegie Mellon University, Expert Technologies, Inc. and Robert Wilensky and | 's group at Berkeley. In the early 1990s, he was hired by Richard P. Gabri ... |
| Alessandro Volta | ... ctricity was the medium by which nerve cells passed signals to the muscles. | 's battery, or voltaic pile, of 1800, made from alternating layers of zinc ... |
| Benjamin Franklin | ... Union. The county was organized in 1818 and is named after Founding Father | |
| Marie | ... discovered that certain kinds of matter emit radiation on their own accord. | and Pierre Curie coined the term “radioactivity” to describe this property ... |
| Robert Grosseteste | Englishman | 's treatise De iride ("On the Rainbow"), written between 1220 and 1235, me ... |
| Alan Hale | The comet was discovered in 1995 by two independent observers, | and Thomas Bopp, both in the United States |
| Francis Crick | ... y "holding positions" on the pathway to mechanistic understanding. In 1967, | , the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, stated "And so to those of yo ... |
| Frédéric Passy | ... case on the Nobel committee. The award was jointly given to French pacifist | , founder of the Peace League and active with Dunant in the Alliance for O ... |
| Friedrich von Huene | ... pericolosus based on a tooth from China, probably belonging to Tarbosaurus. | renamed Dryptosaurus incrassatus, not considered a nomen dubium by him, to ... |
| Oliver Heaviside | #Equation (54) is an equation that | referred to as 'Faraday's law'. This equation caters for the time varying ... |
| Joachim Lambek | A more personal view of quaternions was written by | in 1995. He wrote in his essay If Hamilton had prevailed: quaternions in p ... |
| Albert Einstein | ... cal new physical theories also began to emerge in this same period. In 1905 | , then a Bern patent clerk, argued that the speed of light was a constant ... |
| John Snow | British physician | used a Voronoi diagram in 1854 to illustrate how the majority of people wh ... |
| Benjamin Franklin | ... Guericke, Robert Boyle, Stephen Gray and C. F. du Fay. In the 18th century, | conducted extensive research in electricity, selling his possessions to fu ... |
| Michael Faraday | In 1832, | 's experiments led him to state his two laws of electrochemistry. In 1836, ... |
| Thomas Edison | Most notably, | , briefly a resident of Sunbury, established the Edison Illuminating Compa ... |
| Henry Fonda | ... ire talent agencies and represent established actors such as James Stewart, | , Bette Davis, and Ronald Reagan, whom Wasserman became very close with pe ... |
| Pratap Bhanu Mehta | ... the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law), | (President of the Centre for Policy Research in India) Michael Trebilcock ... |
| Ray Hyman | Psychologist | says that, even if the results were reproduced under specified conditions, ... |
| Francisco Varela | ... s in conversation with John von Neumann, Norbert Wiener, Humberto Maturana, | , Gordon Pask, Gregory Bateson, Lawrence J. Fogel and Margaret Mead, among ... |
| William Charles Wells | ... t in Edinburgh of ideas of selection in nature as set out by Hutton, and by | and Patrick Matthew who had both been associated with the city before publ ... |
| Richard P. Gabriel | ... y and Peter Norvig's group at Berkeley. In the early 1990s, he was hired by | 's Lucid Inc. where he was eventually put to work on Lucid's Energize C++ ... |
| Maurice Godelier | According to anthropologist | , one critical novelty in human society, in contrast to humanity's closest ... |
| Lucas Papademos | ... ent of national unity headed by former European Central Bank vice-president | |
| Adolf Hurwitz | ... d Maxwell's results for the general class of linear systems. Independently, | analyzed system stability using differential equations in 1877, resulting ... |
| Gordon Pask | ... with John von Neumann, Norbert Wiener, Humberto Maturana, Francisco Varela, | , Gregory Bateson, Lawrence J. Fogel and Margaret Mead, among many others. ... |
| Stuart Hameroff | ... aker at the 2007 Quantum Mind conference in Salzburg, Austria, organized by | (University of Arizona) and Gustav Bernroider (University of Salzburg). Ha ... |
| John Herschel | ... le toy figures of John Stuart Mill, poet Felicia Hemans, and astronomer Sir | . Youthful inventiveness finds a way, however |
| Thomas Jefferson | In 1803 President | obtained from France the Louisiana Purchase for fifteen million dollars (e ... |
| Martin Gardner | Science writer | , and others, describe the topic of remote viewing as pseudoscience. Gardn ... |
| Gregory Bateson | ... Neumann, Norbert Wiener, Humberto Maturana, Francisco Varela, Gordon Pask, | , Lawrence J. Fogel and Margaret Mead, among many others. He influenced ge ... |
| Max Perutz | The first protein structures to be solved were hemoglobin and myoglobin, by | and Sir John Cowdery Kendrew, respectively, in 1958. The first atomic-reso ... |
| Mary Pickford | On 29 March 1929 at the bungalow of | at United Artists brought together Chaplin, Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, N ... |
| John Stuart Mill | ... dels of a school of art and a public library, or from little toy figures of | , poet Felicia Hemans, and astronomer Sir John Herschel. Youthful inventiv ... |
| Alan Dershowitz | ... at Camp David came from the Palestinian side, none from the Israeli side." | , an Israel advocate and a law professor at Harvard University, said that ... |
| Lejeune Dirichlet | ... i tessellation, a Voronoi decomposition, or a Dirichlet tessellation (after | ). Voronoi diagrams can be found in a large number of fields in science an ... |
| Thomas Edison | ... silent British version. Six more silent versions followed with one made by | in 1910. The first sound version was made in Britain in 1928. Albert Finne ... |
| Armin von Bogdandy | ... (the first judge who prosecuted former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet), | (Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and Inter ... |
| Max Planck | ... antities (“quanta”), according to a constant that the theoretical physicist | had posited in 1900 to arrive at an accurate theory for the distribution o ... |
| Rodnay Zaks | An early 1978 publication of | from Sybex was A microprogrammed APL implementation ISBN 0895880059, which ... |
| Lawrence J. Fogel | ... Wiener, Humberto Maturana, Francisco Varela, Gordon Pask, Gregory Bateson, | and Margaret Mead, among many others. He influenced generations of student ... |
| Oliver Heaviside | The need for loading coils was discovered by | in studying the disappointing slow speed of the Transatlantic telegraph ca ... |
| Uffe Ravnskov | The research of Ancel Keys has been criticized by | amongst others for having selection bias when supporting his conclusions. ... |
| James Clerk Maxwell | ... a dynamics analysis of the centrifugal governor, conducted by the physicist | in 1868 entitled On Governors. This described and analyzed the phenomenon ... |
| Gerhard Lenski | Sociologist | differentiates societies based on their level of technology, communication ... |
| Dirichlet | Informal use of Voronoi diagrams can be traced back to Descartes in 1644. | used 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional Voronoi diagrams in his study of quad ... |
| Swami Sahajanand Saraswati | ... later came to adopt a militant approach to the movement, while others like | wanted both political and economic freedom for India's peasants and toilin ... |
| Thomas Henry Huxley | ... ion of "Why does opium cause sleep?" with "Because of its soporific power." | compared vitalism to stating that water is the way it is because of its "a ... |
| Patrick Matthew | ... selection in nature as set out by Hutton, and by William Charles Wells and | who had both been associated with the city before publishing their ideas o ... |
| Leonardo da Vinci | ... zi (c.1547–1632), Jean Lemaire (1598–1659), Francisque Millet (1642–79) and | (1452–1519). The Venetian window in this room is derived from the Queen's ... |
| Jared Diamond | ... n of wheat began to spread beyond the Fertile Crescent after about 8000 BC. | traces the spread of cultivated emmer wheat starting in the Fertile Cresce ... |
| Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire | ... um"). He was skeptical of the gradual mechanisms of change that Lamarck and | proposed. Moreover, his commitment to the caused him to doubt that any mec ... |
| Moisés Naím | ... o Zedillo, Cesar Gaviria, Paulo Coelho, Enrique Santos, Mario Vargas Llosa, | , Tomas Eloy Martine |
| Timothy Budd | Around the same time, the book An APL Compiler by | appeared in print. This book detailed the construction of an APL translato ... |
| Hideki Yukawa | ... he laws governing the uncertainties inherent in the quantum world. Notably, | proposed that the positive charges of the nucleus were kept together court ... |
| Massimo Introvigne | ... Julián Herranz, stated "Opus Dei has become a victim of Christianophobia." | , author of an encyclopedia of religion, argues that critics employ the te ... |
| Robert Reich | ... rofessor Rob Reich (not to be confused with former U.S. Secretary of Labor, | ) wrote in The Civic Perils of Homeschooling (2002) that homeschooling can ... |
| Michael Faraday | André-Marie Ampère in 1819-1820 | ;invented the electric motor in 1821, and Georg Ohm mathematically analyse ... |
| Louis Leakey | As a small boy Richard lived in Nairobi with his parents, | , curator of the Coryndon Museum, and Mary Leakey, director of the Leakey ... |
| John Wilkins | ... y Basil and Chrysostom. The result of this reading, and of the influence of | , Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, was seen in the general tone of hi ... |
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| Abraham de Moivre | The Essay of Bayes contains his solution to a similar problem, posed by | , author of The Doctrine of Chances (1718) |
| William F. Albright | ... dah in the 18th year of the reign of Jeroboam, and reigned for three years. | has dated his reign to 915 – 913 BCE |
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| Sigmund Freud | ... ondition). The term was however most influentially defined by Carl Jung and | over a century later. It has continued to be used in contemporary theoreti ... |
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| Paulson | ... e are called parameters by some authors (e.g., Prawitz, "Natural Deduction" | ;, "Designing a theorem prover"). Parameters locally defined within the pr ... |
| Hippolyte Fizeau | ... arkably close to the speed of light, which had recently been measured at by | in 1848 and at by Léon Foucault in 1850. However, Weber and Kohlrausch did ... |
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| Arnold Sommerfeld | ... on or energy transfer. It was theoretically described by physicists such as | and Léon Brillouin. See dispersion for a full discussion of wave velocitie ... |
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| Carl Rogers Darnall | ... ed chlorine gas was developed in 1910 by U.S. Army Major (later Brig. Gen.) | (1867–1941), Professor of Chemistry at the Army Medical School. Shortly th ... |
| Carl Jung | ... or abnormal condition). The term was however most influentially defined by | and Sigmund Freud over a century later. It has continued to be used in con ... |
| Kenneth E. Iverson | ... P. Sharp Associates' Sharp APL product. Unlike most other APL interpreters, | had some influence in the way nested arrays were implemented in Sharp APL ... |
| Sin-Itiro Tomonaga | ... until after World War II ended, when Julian Schwinger, Richard Feynman, and | independently posited the technique of renormalization, which allowed for ... |
| André-Marie Ampère | ... ity of electric and magnetic phenomena, is due to Hans Christian Ørsted and | in 1819-1820; Michael Faraday invented the electric motor in 1821, and Geo ... |
| Ptolemy | ... 0s AD in the land of the Celtic Cornovii, according to ancient cartographer | , as a fortress during the Roman expansion northward. It was named Deva ei ... |
| John Ehrlichman | ... security matters. Dean would later testify he was ordered by top Nixon aide | to "" a briefcase full of surveillance equipment and other evidence found ... |
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| James Dobson | ... ate. The decision quickly drew criticism from some Christian groups such as | , but garnered praise from some Democrats and many Republicans, including ... |
| Daniel J. Bernstein | In PHP 5, the Zend 2 engine uses one of the hash functions from | to generate the hash values used in managing the mappings of data pointers ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... riendship treaty. Negotiated by Thomas Barclay and signed by John Adams and | in 1786, it has been in continuous effect since its ratification by Congre ... |
| George W. Merck | ... thogens. This research was originally overseen by pharmaceuticals executive | and for many years was conducted by Ira L. Baldwin, professor of bacteriol ... |
| Richard Q. Twiss | ... ed. The diameter of Sirius A was first measured by Robert Hanbury Brown and | in 1959 at Jodrell Bank using their stellar intensity interferometer. In 2 ... |
| Richard Price | ... of Chances which was read to the Royal Society in 1763 after Bayes's death. | shepherded the work through this presentation and its publication in the P ... |
| Tim Hunt | ... cis Crick Graduate Lectures. The first two lectures were by John Gurdon and | |
| Albert Einstein | While spacetime can be viewed as a consequence of | 's 1905 theory of special relativity, it was first explicitly proposed mat ... |
| Hans Christian Ørsted | ... f electromagnetism, the unity of electric and magnetic phenomena, is due to | an |
| Paul Volcker | ... former U.S. Secretary of State George P. Schultz and Federal Reserve chair | ; Carlos Fuentes, Mexican writer and public intellectual; John C. Whitehea ... |
| Newton’s | ... forces that Herbart attempted to explain by means of mathematical formulas. | influence can be seen in Herbart’s beliefs about how forces mechanically i ... |
| John Gurdon | ... s hosts The Francis Crick Graduate Lectures. The first two lectures were by | and Tim Hunt |
| Ralph Hartley | ... oretical work in data transmission and information theory by Harry Nyquist, | , Claude Shannon and others during the early 20th century, was done with t ... |
| Louis Leakey | ... t and conservationist. He is second of the three sons of the archaeologists | and Mary Leakey, and is the younger brother of Colin Leakey |
| William Cullen | Neurosis was coined by the Scottish doctor | in 1769 to refer to "disorders of sense and motion" caused by a "general a ... |
| Steve Wozniak | ... ghly successful mass-produced microcomputer products, designed primarily by | , manufactured by Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.) and introduced in 1977 w ... |
| Chomsky | | initially hoped to overcome the limitations of context-free grammars by ad ... |
| Hermann Minkowski | ... xplicitly proposed mathematically by one of his teachers, the mathematician | , in a 1908 essay building on and extending Einstein's work. His concept o ... |
| George Brecht | ... sses the use of noise as a medium and explores the ideas of Antonin Artaud, | , William Burroughs, Sergei Eisenstein, Fluxus, Allan Kaprow, Michael McCl ... |
| Arthur Samuel | ... t used hashing with chaining. G. N. Amdahl, E. M. Boehme, N. Rochester, and | implemented a program using hashing at about the same time. Open addressin ... |
| Colin Leakey | ... archaeologists Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey, and is the younger brother of | |
| Édouard Balladur | ... st of the UDF politicians supported the candidacy of the RPR Prime minister | at the 1995 presidential election, but Giscard supported his old rival Jac ... |
| Carlos Salinas de Gortari | Mexican presidents Miguel de la Madrid, in the early 80s and | in the late 80s, started implementing liberal economic strategies that wer ... |
| Humphry Davy | ... of safety was provided by the safety lamp which was invented in 1816 by Sir | and independently by George Stephenson. However, the lamps proved a false ... |
| Ptolemy's | ... o lived in the vicinity at that time. The town also appears as Mattiacum in | Geographia (2.10). The line of Roman frontier fortifications, the Limes Ge ... |
| Rudolf Kohlrausch | ... scovery of this relationship started in 1855, when Wilhelm Eduard Weber and | determined that there was a quantity related to electricity and magnetism, ... |
| William Smith | ... d under sea water at times and at other times under fresh water. Along with | 's work during the same period on a geological map of England, which also ... |
| Hugh Jackman | ... el, Ghostopolis was released; it was optioned by Disney in Spring 2009 with | attached to star and produce |
| Bernard Katz | ... erform some of the experiments which proved chemical synaptic transmission. | and Eccles worked together on some of the experiments which elucidated the ... |
| Hans Morgenthau | ... from which the Queen shrank. The American international relations theorist | claimed Burghley accepted a pension (a bribe) from Spain, although Burghle ... |
| Mary Leakey | ... nist. He is second of the three sons of the archaeologists Louis Leakey and | , and is the younger brother of Colin Leakey |
| Carl Sofus Lumholtz | The park was originally named the Lumholtz National Park, after scientist | , when it was created in 1994. The Blencoe Falls Section was gazetted as p ... |
| Aristotle | ... ther important work to the Western theatre tradition work is the Poetics by | (written around 335 BC). In this work Aristotle analyses tragedy. He consi ... |
| Claude Shannon | ... n data transmission and information theory by Harry Nyquist, Ralph Hartley, | and others during the early 20th century, was done with these applications ... |
| Wilhelm Eduard Weber | The discovery of this relationship started in 1855, when | and Rudolf Kohlrausch determined that there was a quantity related to elec ... |
| Tolkien | ... Eddings did not realize it until several years later. Upon seeing a copy of | 's The Lord of the Rings, in a bookshop, he allegedly muttered, "Is this o ... |
| Max Weber | In The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, | first suggested that cultural values could affect economic success, arguin ... |
| Béla Bartók | ... ch form, by many other composers, including James Tenney, and most famously | . George Crumb also used musical palindrome to text paint the Federico Gar ... |
| Aristotle | ... The most noted of these was the Italian Ridolfo di Fioravante, nicknamed " | " because of his extraordinary knowledge, who built several cathedrals and ... |
| Giordano Bruno | In the sixteenth century the Italian philosopher | , an early supporter of the Copernican theory that the Earth and other pla ... |
| Martin Gardner | ... of FreeCell is Eight Off. In the June 1968 edition of Scientific American, | described in his "Mathematical Games" column a game by C. L. Baker that is ... |
| Galileo Ferraris | ... st progress in electrical engineering. Through such people as Nikola Tesla, | , Oliver Heaviside, Thomas Edison, Ottó Bláthy, Ányos Jedlik, Sir Charles ... |
| Heinrich Hertz | ... that Oliver Heaviside, concurrently with similar work by Willard Gibbs and | , grouped the four together into a distinct set. This group of four equati ... |
| Thomas Simpson | ... became interested in the subject while reviewing a work written in 1755 by | , but George Alfred Barnard thinks he learned mathematics and probability ... |
| Carl Sagan | | , pondering the question of whether life on Earth could be easily detected ... |
| Oliver Heaviside | ... experimental result of Weber and Kohlrausch. But it wasn't until 1884 that | , concurrently with similar work by Willard Gibbs and Heinrich Hertz, grou ... |
| Nikola Tesla | ... see the greatest progress in electrical engineering. Through such people as | , Galileo Ferraris, Oliver Heaviside, Thomas Edison, Ottó Bláthy, Ányos Je ... |
| Alfred Binet | ... e approach, Crépieux-Jamin ended up with a holistic approach to graphology. | was convinced to do research into graphology from 1893 to 1907. He ended u ... |
| John R. Commons | ... hrough the UW-Extension system at this time. Later, UW economics professors | and Harold Groves helped Wisconsin create the first unemployment compensat ... |
| Stewart Farrar | ... ts within Wicca and other Wiccan-influenced forms of Neopaganism. Janet and | describe esbats as an opportunity for a "love feast, healing work, psychic ... |
| William Huggins | In 1868, Sirius became the first star to have its velocity measured. Sir | examined the spectrum of this star and observed a noticeable red shift. He ... |
| Carl Jung | | found his approach particularly fitting for people who are successfully ad ... |
| Debye | The first theoretical treatment of screening, due to | and Hückel (1923), dealt with a stationary point charge embedded in a flui ... |
| Harry Nyquist | ... fundamental theoretical work in data transmission and information theory by | , Ralph Hartley, Claude Shannon and others during the early 20th century, ... |
| Murray Gell-Mann | ... by scattering and decay provided a key to new fundamental quantum theories. | and Yuval Ne'eman brought some order to these new particles by classifying ... |
| Aristotelian | ... during the 15th century, giving the Italian Renaissance a major boost. The | philosophical tradition was nearly unbroken in the Greek world for almost ... |
| Oskar Kuhn | ... A. sarcophagus into Deinodon sarcophagus and in 1939 German paleontologist | renamed A. arctunguis into Deinodon arctunguis |
| Alvan Graham Clark | ... decades later, on January 31, 1862, American telescope-maker and astronomer | first observed the faint companion, which is now called Sirius B, or affec ... |
| Jean le Rond d'Alembert | The first reference to spacetime as a mathematical concept was in 1754 by | in the article Dimension in Encyclopedie. Another early venture was by Jos ... |
| Richard Price | ... findings on probability theory were passed in manuscript form to his friend | after his death |
| Leibniz | ... ngoing, and viciously personal disputes between the followers of Newton and | concerning priority over the analytical techniques of infinitesimal calcul ... |
| Dennis Rawlins | ... in the sky. In late 1975, prior to the formal launch of CSICOP, astronomer | , along with Paul Kurtz, George Abel and Marvin Zelen (all subsequent memb ... |
| Ludwig Klages | ... spread in Europe as well as the United States. In Germany during the 1920s, | founded and published his finding in Zeitschrift für Menschenkunde (Journa ... |
| George Alfred Barnard | ... n the subject while reviewing a work written in 1755 by Thomas Simpson, but | thinks he learned mathematics and probability from a book by de Moivre. Hi ... |
| Louis Pasteur | ... e animals both while they were alive and when they were dead. In the 1880s, | convincingly demonstrated the germ theory of medicine by inducing anthrax ... |
| Jacques Delors | ... il refused to renew his term, despite being the most 'dynamic' leader until | |
| Friedrich Bessel | In 1844 German astronomer | deduced from changes in the proper motion of Sirius that it had an unseen ... |
| Seymour Cray | ... Supercomputers were introduced in the 1960s and were designed primarily by | at Control Data Corporation (CDC), and later at Cray Research. While the s ... |
| Carl Sagan | In his book Pale Blue Dot, author Dr. | also reflects on what he perceives to be the conceitedness and pettiness o ... |
| Guglielmo Marconi | The original inventors of radio, such as Nikola Tesla and | , expected it to be used for one-on-one wireless communication tasks where ... |
| Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted | In 1923, | and Martin Lowry published essentially the same theory about how acids and ... |
| Léon Foucault | ... , which had recently been measured at by Hippolyte Fizeau in 1848 and at by | in 1850. However, Weber and Kohlrausch did not make the connection to the ... |
| Martin Lowry | In 1923, Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted and | published essentially the same theory about how acids and bases behave, us ... |
| William Rowan Hamilton | After discovering quaternions, | commented, "Time is said to have only one dimension, and space to have thr ... |
| Leibniz's | ... l external objects existing in the world as reals, which can be compared to | concept of monads |
| Jacob Viner | ... tilism dominated economic ideology for 250 years. One group, represented by | , argues that mercantilism was simply a straightforward, common-sense syst ... |
| Arne Tiselius | ... me theory about how acids and bases behave, using an electrochemical basis. | developed the first sophisticated electrophoretic apparatus in 1937 and so ... |
| John Couch Adams | ... the same time, but unknown to Le Verrier, similar calculations were made by | in England. Le Verrier announced his final predicted position for Uranus's ... |
| Robert Andrews Millikan | In 1909, | began a series of experiments to determine the electric charge carried by ... |
| David Suzuki | In the 1985 CBC series "A Planet For the Taking", Dr. | explored the Old Testament roots of anthropocentrism and how it shaped our ... |
| Isaac Newton | ... lished anonymously in 1736), in which he defended the logical foundation of | 's calculus ("fluxions") against the criticism of George Berkeley, author ... |
| John Venn | ... erard Manley Hopkins the poet, the composers John Taverner and John Rutter, | the inventor of Venn diagrams, actor Geoffrey Palmer, Anthony Crosland MP ... |
| Aristotle | ... g are found in the writings of the Greeks in the 2nd and 4th centuries BCE. | (Αριστοτέλης) (384–322 BCE) and Erasistratus (304–258 BCE) were among the ... |
| William Lyon Mackenzie King | ... of prosperity and a determination to defeat the Axis powers. Prime Minister | and President Franklin D. Roosevelt were determined not to repeat the mist ... |
| Joseph Louis Lagrange | ... bert in the article Dimension in Encyclopedie. Another early venture was by | in his Theory of Analytic Functions (1797, 1813). He said, "One may view m ... |
| James Clerk Maxwell | ... in 1827. Electricity and magnetism (and light) were definitively linked by | , in particular in his "On Physical Lines of Force" in 1861 and 1862 |
| Lazare Carnot | ... the Directory. France also lacked funds, and no longer had the services of | , the war minister who had guided it to successive victories following ext ... |
| Thomas Edison | Another advancement in telegraph technology occurred on 9 August 1892, when | received a patent for a two-way telegraph (, "Duplex Telegraph") |
| A. M. C. Duméril | In 1800 he published the Leçons d'anatomie comparée, assisted by | for the first two volumes and Georges Louis Duvernoy for the three later o ... |
| Baudrillard | Some authors, such as Lyotard and | , believe that modernity ended in the mid or late 20th century and thus ha ... |
| Daniel Bernoulli’s | ... ugh other applications were also developed, such as the Swiss mathematician | treatment of fluid dynamics, which he introduced in his 1738 work Hydrodyn ... |
| Seymour Cray | ... en a series of computers at Control Data Corporation (CDC) were designed by | to use innovative designs and parallelism to achieve superior computationa ... |
| Sir Christopher Wren | ... taining only Henry VIII's Great Hall. The country's most eminent architect, | , was called upon to draw the plans, while the master of works was to be W ... |
| Stephen Stigler | In his later years he took a deep interest in probability. | feels that he became interested in the subject while reviewing a work writ ... |
| Nikola Tesla | The original inventors of radio, such as | and Guglielmo Marconi, expected it to be used for one-on-one wireless comm ... |
| William Lyon Mackenzie King | ... n expected to seek election to the Commons as soon as possible. For example | , after losing his seat in the same general election that his party won, b ... |
| James Clerk Maxwell | Another important antecedent to spacetime was the work of | as he used partial differential equations to develop electrodynamics with ... |
| Anna Jean Ayres | ... f sensory integration dysfunction as a discrete disorder was popularized by | , an occupational therapist. Today, some occupational therapists argue in ... |
| Nees von Esenbeck | ... r Clemens August of Bavaria. The first director of the Botanical Garden was | from 1818 to 1830. In May 2003 the world largest Titan arum, some 2.74 m h ... |
| Walter Sydney Adams | In 1915, | , using a 60-inch (1.5 m) reflector at Mount Wilson Observatory, observed ... |
| Carl Woese | In 1987, | established this grouping, calling it informally the "purple bacteria and ... |
| John Arbuthnot | ... decent without being amusing and a failure. He had assistance from Pope and | , but they allowed it to be assumed that Gay was the sole author |
| T. E. Lawrence | ... tral Africa, Aurel Stein in Central Asia, D.G. Hogarth, Leonard Woolley and | excavated at Carchemish. In 1918, because of the threat of wartime bombing ... |
| Raphael Mechoulam | It was isolated and its structure first described in 1992 by | of the Hebrew University |
| Fritz Haber | In 1898, | showed that definite reduction products can result from electrolytic proce ... |
| Leonard Woolley | ... day collected in Central Africa, Aurel Stein in Central Asia, D.G. Hogarth, | and T. E. Lawrence excavated at Carchemish. In 1918, because of the threat ... |
| Olav Jakobsen Høyem | In | 's version of Nynorsk based on Trøndersk, the ð is always silent and is in ... |
| Latreille | ... exception of the section on Insecta, in which he was assisted by his friend | . It was translated into English many times, often with substantial notes ... |
| Robert Noyce | ... venture capital raised to start the semiconductor company (Intel co-founder | is a Grinnell alumnus) |
| Georg Ohm | ... père in 1819-1820; Michael Faraday invented the electric motor in 1821, and | mathematically analysed the electrical circuit in 1827. Electricity and ma ... |
| Erasistratus | ... in the 2nd and 4th centuries BCE. Aristotle (Αριστοτέλης) (384–322 BCE) and | (304–258 BCE) were among the first to perform experiments on living animal ... |
| Isaac Asimov | ... iterary banqueting club the Trap Door Spiders, which served as the basis of | 's fictional group of mystery solvers the |
| Galileo | At the same time, the experimental tradition established by | and his followers persisted. The Royal Society and the French Academy of S ... |
| Kofi Annan | ... and public intellectual; John C. Whitehead, formerly of Goldman Sachs; and | , former Secretary-General of the United Nations |
| Dilma Rousseff | ... esidential election in Venezuela. As a matter of fact, The Nation described | 's victory in the 2010 Brazilian election as a defeat for the |
| Edmond Halley | ... when naval officers had refused to take orders from civilian commander Dr. | . The impasse was broken when the Admiralty proposed James Cook, a naval o ... |
| Anna Jean Ayres | Sensory integration dysfunction (SID) was first studied in-depth by | . Ayres describes sensory integration as the ability to organize sensory i ... |
| Michael Faraday | ... out his 1861 paper, derived theoretically using a molecular vortex model of | 's "lines of force" and in conjunction with the experimental result of Web ... |
| Hulse | ... of the binary pulsar PSR 1913+16, for which the Nobel Prize was awarded to | and Taylor in 1993 |
| Edward Kasner | ... epresenting a constant is a whole word. For example, American mathematician | 's 9-year-old nephew coined the names googol and googolplex |
| Joseph Banks | ... nd were allocated to Cook and the Royal Society representatives: naturalist | , Banks' assistants Daniel Solander and Herman Spöring, astronomer Charles ... |
| Pierre | ... . The becquerel is named for Henri Becquerel, who shared a Nobel Prize with | and Marie Curie in 1903 for their work in discovering radioactivity |
| Newton | ... e major centers for the performance and reporting of experimental work, and | was himself an influential experimenter, particularly in the field of opti ... |
| Andreas Alföldi | ... es' Constantine the Great and the Christian Church (1929) and reinforced by | 's The Conversion of Constantine and Pagan Rome (1948), a historiographic ... |
| Giovanni Botero | ... , and Spain produced noted writers of mercantilist themes including Italy's | (1544–1617) and Antonio Serra (1580-?); France's, Jean Bodin, Colbert and ... |
| José Rizal | ... emiere park, Rizal Park, which was erected for the country's national hero, | . Besides having parks and green areas, Manila is the home to several plaz ... |
| William Henry Hudson | ... s Historic essays, but his arguments were in turn refuted by the naturalist | in his 1920 book Dead Man's Plack and an Old Thorn |
| Samuel Johnson | ... r poems in the closed couplet, apart from the works of Dryden and Pope, are | 's The Vanity of Human Wishes, Oliver Goldsmith's The Deserted Village, an ... |
| Descartes' | ... d and the way the world really is, skeptical scenarios such as this one (or | Evil demon) present a formidable challenge. Putnam, by arguing that such a ... |
| Leslie Lamport | ... als more with appearance than structure. The LaTeX macro package written by | at the beginning of the 1980s offered a simpler interface, and an easier w ... |
| Jacques Delors | ... ommunity Council, Ruud Lubbers, and with the European Commission president, | , pledging closer Japanese – European Community consultations on foreign r ... |
| Ernest Solvay | In 1861, the Belgian industrial chemist | developed a method to convert sodium chloride to sodium carbonate using am ... |
| Marilyn Monroe | ... Jane Russell, Fernando Lamas, Lana Turner, Rita Hayworth, Betty Grable and | |
| Alfred Korzybski | D. David Bourland, Jr. (1928–2000) proposed E-Prime as an addition to | 's general semantics some years after Korzybski's death in 1950. Bourland, ... |
| Willebrord Snellius | ... sity of Leiden is famous for its many developments including Snells law (by | ) |
| Taylor | ... nary pulsar PSR 1913+16, for which the Nobel Prize was awarded to Hulse and | in 1993 |
| Bruce Edwards Ivins | ... the FBI was about to lay charges relating to the incidents. The scientist, | , who had worked for 18 years at USAMRIID, had been told about the impendi ... |
| Ányos Jedlik | ... kola Tesla, Galileo Ferraris, Oliver Heaviside, Thomas Edison, Ottó Bláthy, | , Sir Charles Parsons, Joseph Swan, George Westinghouse, Ernst Werner von ... |
| Captain Atom | ... o editorial mandate, such as "Gregori Eilovotich Rasputin" in Firestorm and | (who refers to Constantine as "an impertinent bumbler in England") and "Am ... |
| Hugh Jackman | ... tralia, which showcased a host of Australian stars including Nicole Kidman, | and David Wenham and went on to become the second highest grossing film in ... |
| Nick Cave | ... music, from the internationally renowned work of the Bee Gees, AC/DC, INXS, | , Savage Garden, the Seekers, or pop diva Kylie Minogue to the popular loc ... |
| Harold Brown | ... awrence Livermore National Laboratory by a team headed by Edward Teller and | . The Navy accepted delivery of the first 16 warheads in July 1960. On May ... |
| Comte | ... as one of the founders of modern sociology. But whereas Durkheim, following | , worked in the positivist tradition, Weber was instrumental in developing ... |
| John A. Ryan | ... ons. But some, following the view of influential priest and economist Msgr. | , believed that established Catholic teachings conflicted with the America ... |
| Frederick Frost Blackman | In the early 20th century, | along with Albert Einstein investigated the effects of light intensity (ir ... |
| Howard Hawks | Test Pilot was written by | , Vincent Lawrence, John Lee Mahin, Frank Wead and Waldemar Young. The scr ... |
| Thomas Edison | ... g. Through such people as Nikola Tesla, Galileo Ferraris, Oliver Heaviside, | , Ottó Bláthy, Ányos Jedlik, Sir Charles Parsons, Joseph Swan, George West ... |
| Steve Wozniak | Some of the more famous pranksters were | and Steve Jobs, founders of Apple Computer. On one occasion Wozniak dialed ... |
| Erwin Schrödinger | ... tionship between discrete “states” and denied the possibility of causality. | established an equivalent theory based on waves in 1926; but Heisenberg’s ... |
| Ruud Lubbers | ... t with the Dutch prime minister and head of the European Community Council, | , and with the European Commission president, Jacques Delors, pledging clo ... |
| Antonio Serra | ... rs of mercantilist themes including Italy's Giovanni Botero (1544–1617) and | (1580-?); France's, Jean Bodin, Colbert and other physiocrats precursors; ... |
| Ginger Rogers | ... toons. He is especially known for his work in the films of Fred Astaire and | |
| Ian R. Porteous | ... ics. More recently, the sphere of square roots of minus one is described in | 's book Clifford Algebras and the Classical Groups (Cambridge, 1995) in pr ... |
| Samuel Ruben | ... herefore, in light, the electron acceptor is reduced and oxygen is evolved. | and Martin Kamen used radioactive isotopes to determine that the oxygen li ... |
| Jan Brinkhuis | 'Optimization: Insights and Applications', | and Vladimir Tikhomirov: 2005, Princeton Universit |
| Luigi Galvani | ... . This kind of cell includes the Galvanic cell or Voltaic cell, named after | and Alessandro Volta, both scientists who conducted several experiments on ... |
| Lee Teng-hui | ... l Wang Sheng, to Paraguay as an ambassador (November 1983), and hand-picked | as vice-president of the Republic of China (formally elected May 1984), fi ... |
| Pier Paolo Pasolini | La rabbia, 1963. Co-director with | |
| Nancy Astor | Also on the local political stage Buckinghamshire has been home to | who lived in Cliveden, Frederick, Prince of Wales who also lived in Clived ... |
| Birger Nerman | ... Whales have for obvious reasons never lived in Vänern, where, according to | , Beowulf is buried. However, an expanse of water separates the island of ... |
| Rudolf Jaenisch | ... s to change the genetics of animals took a large step forwards in 1974 when | was able to produce the first transgenic mammal, by integrating DNA from t ... |
| C.S. Peirce | ... med "idealized rational acceptability." The theory, which owes something to | , is that a belief is true if it would be accepted by anyone under ideal e ... |
| Aldo Leopold | ... reputation as "America's Dairyland." Meanwhile, conservationists including | helped reestablish the state's forests during the early 20th century, pavi ... |
| Ernst Herzfeld | ... shrouded in controversy. According to German archaeologist and Iranologist | , it is derived from the Median word brza-vaciya, which means "loud cry", ... |
| Albertus Magnus | ... and theory of knowledge influenced William of Auvergne, Bishop of Paris and | , while his metaphysics had an impact on the thought of Thomas Aquinas |
| Ivan Pavlov | ... ted the germ theory of medicine by inducing anthrax in sheep. In the 1890s, | famously used dogs to describe classical conditioning. Insulin was first i ... |
| Henri Becquerel | ... herefore equivalent to an inverse second, s −1 . The becquerel is named for | , who shared a Nobel Prize with Pierre and Marie Curie in 1903 for their w ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... members of the Danbury Baptist Association wrote a letter to then president | expressing their concern that as Baptists they may not be able to express ... |
| Michel Gauquelin | ... early controversy concerned the so-called Mars effect: French statistician | ’s claim that champion athletes are more likely to be born when the planet ... |
| de Moivre | ... Alfred Barnard thinks he learned mathematics and probability from a book by | . His work and findings on probability theory were passed in manuscript fo ... |
| Julius Pollux | ... nfluenced by Bentley. His letters to Tiberius Hemsterhuis on his edition of | made the latter one of Bentley's most devoted admirers |
| Isaac Newton | In the eighteenth century the same possibility was mentioned by | in the "General Scholium" that concludes his Principia. Making a compariso ... |
| Walter Orr Roberts | Pei was able to return to hands-on design when he was approached in 1961 by | to design the new Mesa Laboratory for the National Center for Atmospheric ... |
| Jochen Liedtke | ... ronous as well as asynchronous IPC, and suffered from poor IPC performance. | identified the design and implementation of the IPC mechanisms as the unde ... |
| Oliver Heaviside | ... ctrical engineering. Through such people as Nikola Tesla, Galileo Ferraris, | , Thomas Edison, Ottó Bláthy, Ányos Jedlik, Sir Charles Parsons, Joseph Sw ... |
| Charles Scott Sherrington | ... class honours) in 1925, and was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study under | at Magdalen College, Oxford University, where he received his Doctor of Ph ... |
| David Suzuki | ... eople were arrested and alienated of some key environmental leaders such as | and Colleen McCrory who shifted their support to the Green Party in the 19 ... |
| Alexander Borodin | ... ished unheard or become lost entirely. This work included the completion of | 's opera Prince Igor, which Rimsky-Korsakov undertook with the help of Gla ... |
| Léon Theremin | In 1945 | invented an espionage tool for the Soviet Union which retransmitted incide ... |
| Steven Hatfill | ... n became the focus of the FBI's investigation of possible perpetrators (see | ). In July 2008, a top U.S. biodefense researcher at USAMRIID committed su ... |
| Joseph Black’s | ... also produced new concepts, such as the University of Glasgow experimenter | notion of latent heat and Philadelphia intellectual Benjamin Franklin’s ch ... |
| Edmond Halley | In 1718, | discovered the proper motion of the hitherto presumed "fixed" stars after ... |
| Plato | | in his dialogue The Statesman tells a "famous tale" that "the sun and the ... |
| John Goldsmith | ... ownstepped high tone is recognized. The language's tone system was given by | as an example of suprasegmental phenomena that go beyond the linear model ... |
| Vladimir Lenin | ... te ghost stories, one of which became the basis for the novel Frankenstein. | rented a little "chalet" at the French bank, near Geneva. Actor Charlie Ch ... |
| Gödel's | His book Forever Undecided popularizes | incompleteness theorems by phrasing them in terms of reasoners and their b ... |
| John Stuart Mill | ... y, based on the resulting happiness of such behavior. Utilitarians, such as | and Jeremy Bentham, advocated the greatest happiness principle as a guide ... |
| Stephen Harper | | and George W. Bush were thought to share warm personal relations and also ... |
| Revaz Dogonadze | By the 1960s–1970s quantum electrochemistry was developed by | and his pupils |
| Lyman Spitzer | In 1946, American theoretical astrophysicist | was the first to conceive the idea of a telescope in outer space, a decade ... |
| Emilio Segrè | ... by notable minds like Edoardo Amaldi, Bruno Pontecorvo, Franco Rasetti and | . For the theoretical studies only, Ettore Majorana also took part in what ... |
| John Arbuthnot | ... sy. The attacks by Alexander Pope (he was assigned a niche in The Dunciad), | and others demonstrated their inability to appreciate his work, as they co ... |
| Jacques Delors | ... of primus inter pares but had an increasing impact on the Community. Under | it became increasingly presidential in style and now is the dominant force ... |
| Margaret Murray | The term esbat in this sense was described by | |
| Benjamin Franklin’s | ... rimenter Joseph Black’s notion of latent heat and Philadelphia intellectual | characterization of electrical fluid as flowing between places of excess a ... |
| Stephen Leacock | In Canada, satire has become an important part of the comedy scene. | was one of the best known early Canadian satirists, and in the early 20th ... |
| Aristotle | ... c political philosophers, Plato (427–347 BC), Xenophon (c. 430–354 BC), and | ("The Father of Political Science") (384–322 BC). These authors, in such w ... |
| Lynne Jones | ... er with the Member of Parliament for the Birmingham Selly Oak constituency, | of which most of the ward is part. However, meetings are well attended wit ... |
| William F. Albright | ... who was overthrown as king after a reign of only three months and ten days. | dates the reign of Zedekiah to 597 – 587 BC, while E. R. Thiele to 597 – 5 ... |
| Thomas Mun | ... erature" appeared in the 1620s in Great Britain. Smith saw English merchant | (1571–1641) as a major creator of the mercantile system, especially in his ... |
| Daniel Solander | ... e Royal Society representatives: naturalist Joseph Banks, Banks' assistants | and Herman Spöring, astronomer Charles Green, and artists Sydney Parkinson ... |
| Hume | ... n or vision or intent, nor vice versa - a distinction sometimes credited to | who distinguished also the morality of a statement from its truth. The ver ... |
| Lewis Carroll | ... d often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, | , and Kipling, he himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward, and P. G. W ... |
| Alexander Fleming | ... tibiotics. Penicillin, a drug produced by P. chrysogenum, was discovered by | in 1929, and found to inhibit the growth of Gram positive bacteria (see be ... |
| Leonardo da Vinci | ... entre for centuries, notably during the Renaissance with scientists such as | |
| Benoît Mandelbrot | It was discovered by | that changes in prices do not follow a Gaussian distribution, but are rath ... |
| David G. Bromley | Sociologist | calls Amway a "quasi-religious corporation" having sectarian characteristi ... |
| Herman Kahn | ... ng of the word megadeath, a term coined in 1953 by RAND military strategist | to describe one million deaths, popularized in his 1960 book On Thermonucl ... |
| Vladimir Nabokov | ... allusion to the works of poets of previous centuries. An example of this is | 's novel Pale Fire, the second section of which is a 999 line, 4 canto poe ... |
| Frank Macfarlane Burnet | The pathogen of Q fever was discovered in 1937, when | and Mavis Freeman isolated the bacterium from one of Derrick’s patients. I ... |
| Boltzmann | This is the form for W first derived by | . Boltzmann's fundamental equation S=k\,\ln W relates the thermodynamic en ... |
| Plato | ... Western politics can be traced back to the Socratic political philosophers, | (427–347 BC), Xenophon (c. 430–354 BC), and Aristotle ("The Father of Poli ... |
| Daubenton | In 1799 he succeeded | as professor of natural history in the Collège de France. In 1802 he becam ... |
| Prince Charles | ... Howells made a scathing criticism of the exhibits as "conceptual bullshit". | wrote to him: "It's good to hear your refreshing common sense about the dr ... |
| Thomas Carlyle | ... c after reading Dickens's Christmas books and vowed to give generously; and | expressed a generous hospitality by staging two Christmas dinners after re ... |
| I. A. Richards | The Philosophy of Rhetoric (1936), by | describes a metaphor as having two parts: the tenor and the vehicle. The t ... |
| Alexander Graham Bell | ... harles Parsons, Joseph Swan, George Westinghouse, Ernst Werner von Siemens, | and Lord Kelvin, electricity was turned from a scientific curiosity into a ... |
| Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski | ... mic transformation and national industrial development plan led by Minister | , the main architect of the Gdynia seaport project, was in progress at the ... |
| David Hume | ... ho traced the idea back through the Principle of Laplace to the philosopher | .) CSI members argue that none of the paranormal claims have met the stric ... |
| Baddeley | ... short-term memory is distinct from these more hypothetical concepts. Within | 's influential 1986 model of working memory there are two short-term stora ... |
| Joseph Schumpeter | ... z Prize winners, Pope Benedict XVI, Heinrich Heine, Friedrich Nietzsche and | . In the years 2010 and 2011, the Times Higher Education ranked the Univer ... |
| Satyendra Nath Bose | ... assert that “God does not play dice with the universe”. Also in the 1920s, | 's work on photons and quantum mechanics provided the foundation for Bose- ... |
| Fernando Henrique Cardoso | ... authors it is more humane and efficient. The signers of this document are: | , Ernesto Zedillo, Cesar Gaviria, Paulo Coelho, Enrique Santos, Mario Varg ... |
| Hugh Jackman | In 2003, while promoting X2, | mentioned in an interview on UK television morning talk show This Morning ... |
| Jacques Attali | In (1985), | explores the relationship between noise music and the future of society. H ... |
| Dexter Morgan | In the television series Dexter, Dade City is the fictional home of | 's deceased biological father Joe Driscoll. As well, the city is incorrect ... |
| Levon Ter-Petrossian | ... al between the authorities and opposition demonstrators led by ex-President | occurred after the 2008 Armenian presidential election. The events resulte ... |
| Frank Olson | In 2009, author H. P. Albarelli published the book about | 's death and the experiments conducted at Fort Detrick. The book is based ... |
| Walther Nernst | ... ill deviate from the standard potential. In the 20th century German chemist | proposed a mathematical model to determine the effect of reactant concentr ... |
| Cavalier-Smith | ... rmed in the early 1990s by genetic studies, most notably by Gajadhar et al. | , introduced the formal name Alveolata in 1991, although at the time he ac ... |
| Josiah Willard Gibbs | In the late 19th century, | had formulated a theory to predict whether a chemical reaction is spontane ... |
| Thomas Young | ... don, where John Dalton argued for an atomistic interpretation of chemistry, | argued for the interpretation of light as a wave, and Michael Faraday esta ... |
| Maxwell | ... hen N = 3 or 1 are both problems avoided. In 1922, Hermann Weyl showed that | 's theory of electromagnetism works only when N = 3 and T = 1, writing tha ... |
| Charles Kay Ogden | E-Prime and | 's Basic English may lack compatibility because Basic English has a closed ... |
| Edmund O'Meara | ... did criticism and controversy. In 1655, the advocate of Galenic physiology | said that "the miserable torture of vivisection places the body in an unna ... |
| Jane Goodall | The United Nations appointed | , the primatologist most closely associated with chimpanzees and author of ... |
| Grove Karl Gilbert | ... and Weber rivers, in particular, are diverted for other uses. In the 1880s | predicted that the lake – then in the middle of many years of recession – ... |
| Ernesto Zedillo | ... and efficient. The signers of this document are: Fernando Henrique Cardoso, | , Cesar Gaviria, Paulo Coelho, Enrique Santos, Mario Vargas Llosa, Moisés ... |
| Marshall Berman | According to one of | 's books (Berman 1982, 16–17), modernity is periodized into three conventi ... |
| Peter van de Kamp | ... se orbital parameters would be highly unstable. During the 1950s and 1960s, | of Swarthmore College made another prominent series of detection claims, t ... |
| Nicolas Leblanc | In 1791, the French chemist | patented a process for producing sodium carbonate from salt, sulfuric acid ... |
| Pierre Schaeffer | ... esisers of the 1970s with Oxygène 7–13, dedicated to his mentor at the GRM, | , who had died two years before. Eschewing digital techniques developed in ... |
| Jean Bodin | ... g Italy's Giovanni Botero (1544–1617) and Antonio Serra (1580-?); France's, | , Colbert and other physiocrats precursors; and the Spanish School of Sala ... |
| Richard Feynman | ... adequately resolved until after World War II ended, when Julian Schwinger, | , and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga independently posited the technique of renormaliz ... |
| Heike Kamerlingh Onnes | ... by Pieter van Musschenbroek in 1746. Another development was in cryogenics: | (1913 Nobel prize winner in physics) liquefied helium for the first time ( ... |
| Lewis Carroll | Alice in Wonderland is a 1933 film version of the famous Alice novels of | . The film was produced by Paramount Pictures, featuring an all-star cast. ... |
| Lamarck | ... er was critical of the evolutionary theories proposed by his contemporaries | and Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, which involved the gradual transmutation of on ... |
| Pāṇini | Since the time of | , at least, linguists have described the grammars of languages in terms of ... |
| Stephen Harper | The current, and 22nd, Prime Minister of Canada is the Conservative Party's | , who was appointed on 6 February 2006 by Governor General Michaëlle Jean, ... |
| Émile Durkheim | ... es that individuals attach to their own actions. Weber is often cited, with | and Karl Marx, as one of the three principal architects of modern social s ... |
| Louis Dupree | | , the University of Pennsylvania, the Smithsonian Institution and others s ... |
| Julian Schwinger | ... was not considered adequately resolved until after World War II ended, when | , Richard Feynman, and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga independently posited the techni ... |
| Forest Ray Moulton | ... 70 Ophiuchi system with a 36-year period around one of the stars. However, | published a paper proving that a three-body system with those orbital para ... |
| Samuel Johnson | ... e was apprenticed to a silk mercer in London, but being weary, according to | , "of either the restraint or the servility of his occupation", he soon re ... |
| Giuseppe Mercalli | ... ng easily. This eruption of Vulcano was carefully documented at the time by | |
| Whitrow | ... rrow and Tipler (1986) and Tegmark. Barrow has repeatedly cited the work of | |
| Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau | The first scientists to suggest disinfecting water with chlorine were | (in France) and William Cumberland Cruikshank (in England), both around th ... |
| Hugh MacDiarmid | ... been translated in English as Aniara, A Review of Man in Time and Space by | and E. Harley Schubert in 1956. A new English translation was published in ... |
| Herman Kahn | ... r weapons are simply one more rung on the ladder of escalation pioneered by | . This leads to a number of other conclusions regarding the potential uses ... |
| Noam Chomsky | The formalism of context-free grammars was developed in the mid-1950s by | , and also their classification as a special type of formal grammar (which ... |
| Pieter van Musschenbroek | ... famous Leyden jar, a capacitor made from a glass jar, invented in Leiden by | in 1746. Another development was in cryogenics: Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (19 ... |
| Pliny | ... lured to Colossae and slain by an agent of the party of Cyrus the Younger. | tells that the wool of Colossae gave its name (colossinus) to the colour o ... |
| Karl Marx | ... attach to their own actions. Weber is often cited, with Émile Durkheim and | , as one of the three principal architects of modern social science |
| Eduard Seler | ... reckoned as the 9th level of the Underworld, which in the interpretation by | was the uppermost underworld in the east |
| Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire | ... cal of the evolutionary theories proposed by his contemporaries Lamarck and | , which involved the gradual transmutation of one form into another. He re ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... on County was formed on January 21, 1839. It was named for the US President | |
| Joseph Swan | ... r Heaviside, Thomas Edison, Ottó Bláthy, Ányos Jedlik, Sir Charles Parsons, | , George Westinghouse, Ernst Werner von Siemens, Alexander Graham Bell and ... |
| Errett Bishop | Another generalization of the Stone–Weierstrass theorem is due to | . Bishop's theorem is as follows |
| Avicenna | ... isease-like mental states like anger, passion, hatred and depression, while | (980–1037 CE) diagnosed ḥuzn in a lovesick man if his pulse increased dras ... |
| Noam Chomsky | ... severe criticism of B.F. Skinner's work in 1971 by the cognitive scientist | |
| Jürgen Habermas | ... phy of convergence proposed by the Frankfurt School (e.g. Theodor W. Adorno | ) |
| Vernor Vinge | ... science fiction writing on occasion. In the novel A Deepness in the Sky by | , the spacefaring Qeng Ho culture is depicted as using metric units such a ... |
| Professor Moriarty | ... co-produced by the American Broadcasting Company. Orson Welles appeared as | in The Final Problem |
| Aristotle | ... aro in 1485. It was always Pico’s aim to reconcile the schools of Plato and | , since he believed they both used different words to express the same con ... |
| Marlon Brando | ... ng at a photograph of the singer, Philbin exclaimed, "He's a guitar playing | !" Despite the single having been released only a day before to coincide w ... |
| Menachem Friedman | ... in Berlin, Germany for five semesters from mid-1928 through 1930. Professor | found his records amongst the students who "audited courses at the univers ... |
| Shiffrin | ... is referred to as the "modal model" and has been most famously detailed by | . The exact mechanisms by which this transfer takes place, whether all or ... |
| Mary Boyce | ... o be worshipped in the 1st century BC, and to whom an old name was applied. | , a researcher of ancient Iranian religions, writes that even though Roman ... |
| Theodor W. Adorno | ... ist social philosophy of convergence proposed by the Frankfurt School (e.g. | Jürgen Habermas ) |
| Gregory Benford | A variation, developed by brothers James Benford and | , is to use thermal desorption of propellant trapped in the material of a ... |
| John Mauchly | ... ght by various parties to invalidate electronic computing patents issued to | and J. Presper Eckert, which were owned by computer manufacturer Sperry Ra ... |
| Richard Bowdler Sharpe | ... us name for grebes and European ones, following Nicholas Aylward Vigors and | , for divers. The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature trie ... |
| Samuel Andrews | ... ohn D. Rockefeller, his brother William Rockefeller, Henry Flagler, chemist | , silent partner Stephen V. Harkness, and Oliver Burr Jennings, who had ma ... |
| Georges Cuvier | ... the Latin ruber 'red'. The genus Erithacus was created by French naturalist | in 1800, giving the bird its current binomial name of E. rubecula |
| Leonardo da Vinci | ... orenzo was a great patron of the arts, commissioning works by Michelangelo, | and Botticelli. Lorenzo was an accomplished musician and brought composers ... |
| Kitty Pryde | ... mita, Jr., and Marc Silvestri. Additions to the X-Men during this time were | /Shadowcat, Dazzler, Forge, Longshot, Psylocke, Rogue, Rachel Summers/Phoe ... |
| Don Zagier | In 1975, number theorist | commented that primes bot |
| Bertrand Russell | ... declined to return to duty; instead, encouraged by pacifist friends such as | and Lady Ottoline Morrell, he sent a letter to his commanding officer, tit ... |
| Engelbert Kaempfer | ... y a Westerner about the flora, fauna, and landscape of Japan, German doctor | wrote: "there is only one breed of cat that is kept. It has large patches ... |
| Phil McGraw | In March 2004, TV personality | (aka Dr. Phil) pulled his “Shape Up” line of supplements off the market in ... |
| A. T. Still | ... the philosophy and system of alternative medical practice first proposed by | MD in 1874. Its practitioners are known as osteopaths |
| Casimir Davaine | After | demonstrated the direct transmission of the anthrax bacillus between cows, ... |
| Edgar Schein | ... f the repatriation of American prisoners of war by Robert Jay Lifton and by | concluded that brainwashing (called "thought reform" by Lifton and "coerci ... |
| Robert L. Forward | ... m. This concept, called a laser-pushed lightsail, was analyzed by physicist | in 1989 as a method of Interstellar travel that would avoid extremely high ... |
| Wernher von Braun | ... GMC). Central to this was a group of German scientists and engineers led by | that had originally been brought to America by Colonel Holger Toftoy under ... |
| Achille Valenciennes | ... tions of 5000 species of fishes, and was the joint production of Cuvier and | . Cuvier's work on this project extended over the years 1828–1831 |
| Louis Pasteur | ... he became one of the founders of bacteriology, the other major figure being | |
| Aldo Leopold | ... ctices which prevented many other species from becoming extinct. Naturalist | paid tribute to the vanished species in an observance held at Wyalusing St ... |
| Oscar Zariski | ... University, he received his Ph.D. from Harvard while under the direction of | . He won the Fields Medal in 1970 |
| Oliver Stone | Additionally, Lemmon and Matthau had small parts in | 's 1991 film, JFK (the only film in which both appeared without sharing sc ... |
| Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers | When Pallas was discovered by astronomer | on March 28, 1802, it was counted as a planet, as were other asteroids in ... |
| Horace Lamb | ... l have an answer for the first." A similar witticism has been attributed to | (who had published a noted text book on Hydrodynamics)—his choice being qu ... |
| Karl Popper | ... ing to the autonomous education philosophy emerged from the epistemology of | in The Myth of the Framework: In Defence of Science and Rationality, which ... |
| Goethe | ... ic Language. His cycle of poems had widespread influence on such writers as | and the young Walter Scott, but there was controversy from the outset abou ... |
| Plato | ... problems. Some attribute it as a carefully constructed myth by followers of | over two centuries after the death of Pythagoras, mainly to bolster the ca ... |
| Georges Louis Duvernoy | ... atomie comparée, assisted by A. M. C. Duméril for the first two volumes and | for the three later ones |
| Mordecai Kaplan | ... n the theology of Reconstructionist Judaism as presented in the writings of | |
| David Douglas | ... y purposes including cultivation, signaling, and warfare. Scottish botanist | noted the native use of fire for tobacco cultivation, to encourage deer in ... |
| Plato | ... library in which he immersed himself, reading many classic works, including | 's Republic, and More's Utopia. This would be the beginning of Herbert Geo ... |
| Werner Heisenberg | According to an apocryphal story, | was asked what he would ask God, given the opportunity. His reply was: "Wh ... |
| Karl Marx | ... itutions led by a spontaneous uprising of the working class as predicted by | . On 25 January 1918, at the Petrograd Soviet, Lenin declared "Long live t ... |
| Friedrich Kekulé | ... versity of Leiden to study chemistry. He then studied in Bonn, Germany with | and in Paris with C. A. Wurtz. He received his doctorate under Eduard Muld ... |
| Robert Metcalfe | ... ped at Xerox PARC between 1973 and 1974. It was inspired by ALOHAnet, which | had studied as part of his PhD dissertation. The idea was first documented ... |
| Averroes | ... k and Roman ancient writers, while contemporaries cultural figures included | and the Jewish philosopher Maimonides |
| Claude Bernard | ... r influenced the positivist philosopher Auguste Comte, and the physiologist | |
| William Harvey | William Osler records that Hunter gave Jenner | 's advice, very famous in medical circles (and characteristic of the Age o ... |
| Grady Booch | Cem Kaner and | have publicly stated that the document could be improved. Many claim that ... |
| Clifford Berry | ... the equivalent of $8403 in 2010) and the assistance of his graduate student | , the ABC was prototyped by November of that year |
| William Osler | ... pprenticed in surgery and anatomy under surgeon John Hunter and others at . | records that Hunter gave Jenner William Harvey's advice, very famous in me ... |
| Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle | ... part of Prussia, as the son of a mining official. He studied medicine under | at the University of Göttingen and graduated in 1866. He then served in th ... |
| Auguste Comte | This principle later influenced the positivist philosopher | , and the physiologist Claude Bernard |
| Jacques Delors | ... eded for EMU, as outlined by the EMU reports of Pierre Werner and President | . It was established on 1 June 1998 |
| T. K. Whitaker | ... etail. It was in this department where Lynch worked closely with Lemass and | in generating economic growth and implementing the Programme for Economic ... |
| Stephanus of Byzantium | ... have lived after Sextus Empiricus (c. 200 AD), whom he mentions, and before | and Sopater (c. 500 AD), who quote him. His work makes no mention of Neopl ... |
| Giuseppe Piazzi | In 1801, the astronomer | discovered an object which he initially believed to be a comet. Shortly th ... |
| Wim Duisenberg | The first President of the Bank was | , the former president of the Dutch central bank and the European Monetary ... |
| Butler Lampson | ... filed a patent application listing Metcalfe, David Boggs, Chuck Thacker and | as inventors. In 1976, after the system was deployed at PARC, Metcalfe and ... |
| Terry Winograd | ... ntersected with hard science in the works in natural language processing by | (1973) and the establishment of the first cognitive sciences department in ... |
| Doctor Destiny | ... ing, The Floronic Man is detained there, and in The Sandman by Neil Gaiman, | escapes the asylum to wreak havoc on both the real and dream worlds. It ha ... |
| Joseph Black | ... d from the Latin word calor, meaning heat. Scottish physician and scientist | , who was the first to recognize the distinction between heat and temperat ... |
| Gerhard Domagk | ... founders of microbiology, inspiring such major figures as Paul Ehrlich and | |
| Johann Reinhold Forster | ... a suppressed name unfit for further use and establishing Gavia, created by | in 1788, as the valid genus name for the loons. However, the situation was ... |
| Plato | ... molao Barbaro in 1485. It was always Pico’s aim to reconcile the schools of | and Aristotle, since he believed they both used different words to express ... |
| Guillaume-François Rouelle | ... nown as "le cadet" (the younger) to distinguish him from his older brother, | , who was also a chemist |
| Kikunae Ikeda | Professor | from the Tokyo Imperial University isolated glutamic acid as a new taste s ... |
| Konstantin Tsiolkovsky | ... 6, when Robert Goddard considered the possibility in his personal notebook. | published the idea in 1911 |
| Mary Pickford | ... work for Lubin Studios, advising her fellow young Canadian, the 18-year-old | , to take her place as IMP's star |
| Karl Weierstrass | ... omial interpolation. The original version of this result was established by | in 1885 using the Weierstrass transform |
| Barry Humphries | ... s His Own (1974). The Barry McKenzie films saw performing-artist and writer | collaborating with director Bruce Beresford. In 1976, Peter Finch was awar ... |
| Peter Simon Pallas | ... ted to the Pallas asteroid, being instead named after the German naturalist | . The chemical element palladium, on the other hand, was named after the a ... |
| Gideon Mantell | ... il collectors such as Mary Anning, William Conybeare, William Buckland, and | , who found and described the first ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, and dinosau ... |
| Filippo Pacini | ... xperiments. The bacterium had been previously isolated by Italian anatomist | in 1854, but his work had been ignored due to the predominance of the mias ... |
| Bernhard Karlgren | ... olarly debate. One of the first systems was devised by the Swedish linguist | in the early 1900s; most present systems rely heavily on Karlgren's insigh ... |
| Joan Crawford | ... ar, Davis refused the title role in Mildred Pierce (1945), a role for which | won an Academy Award, and instead made The Corn Is Green (1945) based on a ... |
| Franz Aepinus | ... systems of many different countries. A system produced by a mathematician, | , stood out in particular. He was strongly in favor of the adoption of the ... |
| Alexandre Lamfalussy | ... Institute. While Duisenberg had been the head of the EMI (taking over from | of Belgium) just before the ECB came into existence, the French government ... |
| James Watt | ... acid by the lead chamber process invented by the Englishman John Roebuck ( | 's first partner) in 1746. He was able to greatly increase the scale of th ... |
| Aristotle | ... e best of the medieval and Islamic commentators (see Averroes, Avicenna) on | in a famous long letter to Ermolao Barbaro in 1485. It was always Pico’s a ... |
| Louis Jacques Thénard | Catalase was first noticed in 1818 when | , who discovered H 2 O 2 (hydrogen peroxide), suggested that peroxide's br ... |
| Stephen Gray | Further work was conducted by Otto von Guericke, Robert Boyle, | and C. F. du Fay. In the 18th century, Benjamin Franklin conducted extensi ... |
| Lee Teng-hui | ... their electoral campaign on Chiang's successor, President and KMT Chairman | because of Lee's support of Taiwan for Taiwanese. Chiang Ching-kuo, howeve ... |
| Doris Day | The title sequence had light happy music (picked up from the | movie, The Thrill of it All) instead of the more hip surf theme that was t ... |
| Eduard Buchner | It was the discovery of enzymes at the beginning of the 20th century by | that separated the study of the chemical reactions of metabolism from the ... |
| Vladimir Lenin | In April of that year, | arrived in Russia from Switzerland, calling for "All power to the soviets. ... |
| Gottfried Leibniz | ... al occurrence. However, other Protestant writers, such as David Blondel and | , rejected the story |
| Lee Teng-hui | ... Martial law was lifted one year later by Chiang Ching-kuo. Chiang selected | , a Taiwanese born technocrat to be his Vice President. The move followed ... |
| Roger Blench | ... longside East and West Semitic, rather than as a subgroup of South Semitic. | notes that the Gurage languages are highly divergent and wonders whether t ... |
| Hermann von Helmholtz | ... is, which had been developed by Josiah Willard Gibbs, Oliver Heaviside, and | . Vector analysis described the same phenomena as quaternions, so it borro ... |
| Andrey Kolmogorov | ... in space so that a statistical description is needed. Russian mathematician | proposed the first statistical theory of turbulence, based on the aforemen ... |
| Jean-Antoine Nollet | In 1746 the French scientist and abbé | , gathered about two hundred monks into a circle about a mile (1.6 km) in ... |
| Marlon Brando | ... ch he directed, produced, and wrote. The latter film stars Sophia Loren and | , and Chaplin made his final on-screen appearance in a brief cameo role as ... |
| Robert Reich | ... mos T. Akerman, Secretary of Defense James V. Forrestal, Secretary of Labor | , former Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson, and the current Secretar ... |
| Lavoisier | ... ve quantity. The idea that heat was a conservative quantity was invented by | , and is called the 'caloric theory'; by the middle of the nineteenth cent ... |
| James B. Sumner | ... ny plants and animals. In 1937 catalase from beef liver was crystallised by | and the molecular weight was worked out in 1938 |
| Carl Linnaeus | ... name used in the first modern scientific description of a Gavia species (by | ) in 1758. Unfortunately, confusion about whether Linnaeus' "wastebin genu ... |
| Lewis Carroll | ... ted by Norman Z. McLeod from a screenplay by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, based on | 's books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. I ... |
| Aristotle | ... egan by asking Avicenna eighteen questions, ten of which were criticisms of | 's On the Heavens |
| Thomas Jefferson | When President | commissioned the building of the National Road from Baltimore to St. Louis ... |
| Mulla Sadra | ... a panentheistic trend, represented by scholars such as Sayyid Haydar Amuli, | (all of whom were influenced by Ibn Arabi). Some Sufi Orders, notably the ... |
| Edgar Schein | In a summary published in 1963, | gave a background history of the precursor origins of the brainwashing phe ... |
| Marlon Brando | ... off the ground including Haunted Summer, about Mary Shelley and a film with | about the Indian massacre at Wounded Knee |
| Oscar Loew | ... ested that peroxide's breakdown is caused by an unknown substance. In 1900, | was the first to give it the name catalase, and found its presence in many ... |
| Pliny the Elder | ... via comes from the Latin for "sea mew", as used by ancient Roman naturalist | |
| Louis Pasteur | ... 19th century, when studying the fermentation of sugar to alcohol by yeast, | concluded that fermentation was catalyzed by substances within the yeast c ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... al backers included Sir Mark Thatcher, son of former British Prime Minister | and possibly the British novelist Jeffrey Archer. Somewhere between $3 mil ... |
| Henry Paulson | ... orrestal, Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, former Secretary of the Treasury | , and the current Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner. C. Everett K ... |
| Pierre de Fermat | ... are of the form , with k an arbitrary natural number. They are named after | who conjectured that all such numbers F k are prime. This was based on the ... |
| Doreen McAndrew DiDomenico | ... ich comprises Bayonne and Country Village in Jersey City, is represented by | |
| Guglielmo Marconi | ... h the now-famous activities launched by inventors Alexander Graham Bell and | |
| Lord Kelvin | ... n, George Westinghouse, Ernst Werner von Siemens, Alexander Graham Bell and | , electricity was turned from a scientific curiosity into an essential too ... |
| John von Neumann | ... the U.S. Navy had decided to build a large scale computer, on the advice of | . Atanasoff was put in charge of the project, and he asked Mauchly to help ... |
| Oliver Heaviside | ... laced by vector analysis, which had been developed by Josiah Willard Gibbs, | , and Hermann von Helmholtz. Vector analysis described the same phenomena ... |
| Averroes | ... at he believed to be the best of the medieval and Islamic commentators (see | , Avicenna) on Aristotle in a famous long letter to Ermolao Barbaro in 148 ... |
| Alexander Graham Bell | ... scientific achievement with the now-famous activities launched by inventors | and Guglielmo Marconi |
| Benjamin Bloom | | has suggested three domains of learning |
| Ptolemy | ... n Bay has been inhabited by humans since prehistoric times, the writings of | (the Egyptian astronomer and cartographer) in about 140 AD provide possibl ... |
| Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire | ... on comparative anatomists and zoologists Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and | by whom her father was employed to create illustrations |
| Émile Littré | ... ed the election of agnostic intellectuals. Dupanloup resigned in 1875 after | , an agnostic, was elected to the Academy |
| Richard Trevithick | ... he table engine. Towards the turn of the 19th century, the Cornish engineer | , and the American, Oliver Evans began to construct higher pressure non-co ... |
| Éamon de Valera | ... rs, Lynch became speech writer and research assistant for the party leader, | |
| Samuel Johnson | ... e of a person who may have used obsessive–compulsive traits to advantage is | , the 18th-century English man of letters, who likely had Tourette syndrom ... |
| Josiah Willard Gibbs | ... nions began to be displaced by vector analysis, which had been developed by | , Oliver Heaviside, and Hermann von Helmholtz. Vector analysis described t ... |
| Kiyotsugu Hirayama | In 1917, the Japanese astronomer | began to study asteroid motions. By plotting the mean orbital motion, incl ... |
| Benjamin Franklin's | ... y. This was the two-fluid theory of electricity, which was to be opposed by | one-fluid theory later in the century |
| Aristotelian | ... unt &c. He poked fun at the arrogance of the work and Woodward's misguided, | insistence that what is theoretically attractive must be actually true. In ... |
| Robert Hetzron | ... The classification based on shared innovations given below, established by | in 1976 and with later emendations by John Huehnergard and Rodgers as summ ... |
| Fred Hoyle | ... me to be called the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe. In 1948, | set out his opposing steady state theory in which the universe continually ... |
| John Woodward | He first wrote satire in 1697, when he answered Dr. | 's An essay towards a natural history of the earth and terrestrial bodies, ... |
| John C. Frémont | Even the Governor of the Arizona Territory, | , reported after the gunfight, "Many of the very best law-abiding and peac ... |
| Nicholas Aylward Vigors | ... ornithologists using the genus name for grebes and European ones, following | and Richard Bowdler Sharpe, for divers. The International Commission on Zo ... |
| Christof Koch | ... '. In the final phase of his career, Crick established a collaboration with | that lead to publication of a series of articles on consciousness during t ... |
| Allan McLeod Cormack | ... the Mayo Clinic has an EMI scanner on display in the Radiology Department. | of Tufts University in Massachusetts independently invented a similar proc ... |
| Julius Richard Petri | ... Walther Hesse) and the Petri dish (named after its inventor, his assistant | ). These devices are still used today. With these techniques, he was able ... |
| Avicenna | ... eved to be the best of the medieval and Islamic commentators (see Averroes, | ) on Aristotle in a famous long letter to Ermolao Barbaro in 1485. It was ... |
| Dick Anthony | ... ame under criticism in subsequent years. According to forensic psychologist | , the CIA invented the concept of "brainwashing" as a propaganda strategy ... |
| Paul Ehrlich | ... lion birds" and earned $60,000, the equivalent of $1 million dollars today. | says a "single hunter" sent three million birds to eastern cities |
| Aristotle | ... h remain extant — did circulate in antiquity. Critical ancient sources like | and Aristoxenus cast doubt on these writings. Ancient Pythagoreans usually ... |
| Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire | ... ecame friends with the father and son comparative anatomists and zoologists | and Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire by whom her father was employed to crea ... |
| Johann von Goethe | The castle is surrounded by a park, where the famous poet | once walked. The Heidelberger Bergbahn funicular railway runs from Kornmak ... |
| Francis La Flesche | ... ced back to the late 19th century, when researchers like Alice Fletcher and | studied the music of the Omaha peoples, working for the Bureau of American ... |
| Nicholas Kaldor | ... essed prices, as he was convinced that Japan would honour its obligations ( | pages 66–67) |
| Che Guevara | ... cis Ford Coppola's Youth Without Youth (2007) and another cameo in the 2008 | biopic Che. He lent his voice to the English version of the animated film ... |
| Nicholson | ... er could be decomposed by the current from a voltaic pile was discovered by | and Carlisle in 1800, a process now known as electrolysis. Their work was ... |
| James Clerk Maxwell | ... d, and did not follow the metric pattern of a base unit and prefixed units. | and Elihu Thomson (through the British Association for the Advancement of ... |
| Lorentz | ... differential equations to develop electrodynamics with the four parameters. | discovered some invariances of Maxwell's equations late in the 19th centur ... |
| Norman Finkelstein | According to political scientist | transfer was considered as an acceptable solution to the problems of ethni ... |
| Arago | ... tronomical observations of the known planet Uranus. Encouraged by physicist | , Director of the Paris Observatory, Le Verrier was intensely engaged for ... |
| Alessandro Volta | In 1800 | invented the Voltaic Pile, allowing for a continuous current of electricit ... |
| Steven Weinberg | ... magnetic and weak interactions in the standard model is due to Abdus Salam, | and, subsequently, Sheldon Glashow. After the discovery, made at CERN, of ... |
| Aristotle | ... n, and through Galen the doctrine of Hippocrates, modified by the system of | . But the Canon of Ibn Sīnā is distinguished from the Al-Hawi (Continence) ... |
| Peter Simon Pallas | ... on in Saint Petersburg in 1765. She lured the scientists Leonhard Euler and | from Berlin and Anders Johan Lexell from Sweden to the Russian capital |
| Umberto Eco | ... the life of a Byzantine girl during the carnage and falls in love with her. | 's novel Baudolino begins shortly after the Sack of Constantinople |
| Marvin Harris | | estimated that among Paleolithic hunters 23-50% of newborn children were k ... |
| Godfrey Hounsfield | The first commercially viable CT scanner was invented by Sir | in Hayes, United Kingdom, at EMI Central Research Laboratories using X-ray ... |
| Leo Marks | When | was appointed codes officer of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) in L ... |
| William Crookes | ... the elements it was not until the late 1800s that the element was isolated. | observed the phosphorescent spectra of the rare elements and observed spec ... |
| Ptolemy | ... the star's emanations would not cause wheat rust on wheat crops that year. | of Alexandria mapped the stars in Books VII and VIII of his Almagest, in w ... |
| E. R. Thiele | William F. Albright has dated his reign to 915 – 913 BCE. | offers the dates 914/913 – 911/910 BCE. As explained in the Rehoboam artic ... |
| Marlon Brando | ... officer charged with "terminating" the command of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz. | played Kurtz, and it remains one of his most famous roles |
| Pierre Clastres | ... concept of direct democracy are: Cornelius Castoriadis, Hannah Arendt, and | |
| Richard Feynman | ... rapid variation of pressure and velocity in space and time. Nobel Laureate | described turbulence as "the most important unsolved problem of classical ... |
| William Petty | ... mounts of trade data and used it extensively in their research and writing. | , a strong mercantilist, is generally credited with being the first to use ... |
| Roger Penrose | ... Big Bang singularity exist in the universe. The hypothesis was conceived by | in 1969. Cosmic censorship hypotheses should be distinguished from chronol ... |
| Baron von Zach | ... t from sight for several months, but was recovered later in the year by the | and Heinrich W. M. Olbers after a preliminary orbit was computed by Friedr ... |
| G. N. Amdahl | ... . P. Luhn wrote an internal IBM memorandum that used hashing with chaining. | , E. M. Boehme, N. Rochester, and Arthur Samuel implemented a program usin ... |
| Joan Crawford | ... ecome an actress by her mother's love of movies. Her mother named her after | , using the Southern pronunciation of the name "Joanne". Attending the pre ... |
| David J. Tholen | ... as about to confirm its discovery. However, astronomers Olivier Hainaut and | of the University of Hawaii stated that the alleged photo was an altered c ... |
| Anders Johan Lexell | ... lured the scientists Leonhard Euler and Peter Simon Pallas from Berlin and | from Sweden to the Russian capital |
| Nathan Bailey | ... is from the Greek, virtually , from "human", and "wisdom". It is listed by | (1742) as meaning "the knowledge of the nature of man" (OED). Authors whos ... |
| William Nicholson | In 1800, | and Johann Wilhelm Ritter succeeded in decomposing water into hydrogen and ... |
| Alexandre Brongniart | Cuvier collaborated for several years with | , an instructor at the Paris mining school, to produce a monograph on the ... |
| Allan McLeod Cormack | ... od – this last due to the work of Godfrey Hounsfield and South African-born | – gradually supplanted it as the modality of CT. In terms of mathematics, ... |
| Paul R. Ehrlich | Naturalist | wrote that the Passenger Pigeon's extinction "illustrates a very important ... |
| Heinrich W. M. Olbers | ... veral months, but was recovered later in the year by the Baron von Zach and | after a preliminary orbit was computed by Friedrich Gauss. This object cam ... |
| Sydney Brenner | ... ure was established in 2003 following an endowment by his former colleague, | , joint winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine. The lec ... |
| Democritus | ... causing stupidity, but the city counted among its citizens the philosophers | , Protagoras and Anaxarchus, and historian and philosopher Hecataeus of Ab ... |
| Thomas Henry Huxley | ... ton, now part of Imperial College London) in London, studying biology under | . As an alumnus, he later helped to set up the Royal College of Science As ... |
| John Winthrop | ... House at Harvard University is named in honor of him and of his descendant | , who briefly served as President of Harvard |
| Carl Friedrich Gauss | ... derive electric and magnetic metric units, following the recommendation of | in 1832 |
| Jim Cairns | ... m was elected leader of the party, defeating leading left-wing candidate Dr | |
| Samuel Johnson | The writer and critic | wrote that Paradise Lost shows off "[Milton's] peculiar power to astonish" ... |
| Charles Darwin | Local attractions include Down House (the home of | ), Chislehurst Caves, Holwood House (the home of William Pitt the Younger) ... |
| Friedrich Gauss | ... on Zach and Heinrich W. M. Olbers after a preliminary orbit was computed by | . This object came to be named Ceres, and was the first asteroid to be dis ... |
| Aristotle | ... Plato, as did his teacher, Marsilio Ficino, but retained a deep respect for | . Although he was a product of the studia humanitatis, Pico was constituti ... |
| Larry Sabato | In his book A More Perfect Constitution, Professor | elaborated on this advantage of the Electoral College, arguing to "mend it ... |
| Elijah Snow | ... the Planetary special Planetary/Batman: Night on Earth, it was implied that | had somehow temporarily left the Wildstorm universe to witness the Crisis. ... |
| Freud | ... r also makes an apt pun on the names of two famous psychoanalysts, Jung and | |
| Johann Galle | ... vatory. Le Verrier transmitted his own prediction by 18 September letter to | of the Berlin Observatory. The letter arrived five days later, and the pla ... |
| Roger Penrose | The hypothesis was first formulated by | in 1969, and it is not stated in a completely formal way. In a sense it is ... |
| Stanley Biber | ... ional reputation for performing sex reassignment surgery. In the 1960s, Dr. | , a veteran surgeon returning from Korea, decided to move to Trinidad beca ... |
| Richardson | ... orementioned notion of the energy cascade (an idea originally introduced by | ) and the concept of self-similarity. As a result, the Kolmogorov microsca ... |
| Eugène-Anatole Demarçay | ... However, the discovery of europium is generally credited to French chemist | , who suspected samples of the recently discovered element samarium were c ... |
| Anaximander | ... rom the lost doxography of Sotion. The biographies of the former begin with | , and end with Clitomachus, Theophrastus and Chrysippus; the latter begins ... |
| Charles Lyell | ... ol of geological thought lost ground to uniformitarianism, as championed by | and others, which claimed that the geological features of the earth were b ... |
| Nicholas of Cusa | ... tant threat. Towards the end of the Middle Ages, many philosophers, such as | and Francisco Suarez, propounded similar theories. The church was the fina ... |
| Carl Schmitt | ... hilosopher, Martin Heidegger and its most prominent constitutional scholar, | , spoke in favour of it, and Heidegger became the sponsor of a manifesto o ... |
| Kevin Warwick | ... riment with RFID implants was conducted by British professor of cybernetics | , who implanted a chip in his arm in 1998. In 2004 Conrad Chase offered im ... |
| John Daniell | ... y's experiments led him to state his two laws of electrochemistry. In 1836, | invented a primary cell in which hydrogen was eliminated in the generation ... |
| Archytas | ... s observances and scientific pursuits, while individuals, as in the case of | , acquired now and then great political influence. Concerning the fate of ... |
| Pliny | ... coast of Sicily which, in his time, still deserved the name of cities; and | gives it the title of a Colonia. It is probable that it received a colony ... |
| Abdus Salam | ... f the electromagnetic and weak interactions in the standard model is due to | , Steven Weinberg and, subsequently, Sheldon Glashow. After the discovery, ... |
| Friedrich Engels | ... holic communion rite, hence English atheists denoted themselves socialists. | argued that in 1848, at the time when the Communist Manifesto was publishe ... |
| Newton | ... n Uranus's observed orbit and the one predicted from the laws of gravity of | . At the same time, but unknown to Le Verrier, similar calculations were m ... |
| Albert Einstein | ... attempts of the Banovina of Croatia to have them extradited were fruitless. | and Heinrich Mann sent a letter to the International League for Human Righ ... |
| Samuel Johnson | ... fire in 1771, but by 1774 the house, though incomplete, was inhabited. Dr. | visiting the house in 1781 is quoted as saying, "This is one of the places ... |
| Christopher Alexander | ... were in part inspired by the work of two architectural and urban theorists, | and Jay Forrester |
| Charles Darwin | This was the first stop the HMS Beagle made on its journey on which | would make his amazing discoveries |
| Hans Christian Ørsted | | discovered in 1820 that an electric current produces a magnetic field whic ... |
| Mario Draghi | ... e Governing Council. It is composed of the President of the Bank (currently | ), a vice president (currently Vitor Constâncio) and four other members. T ... |
| Joseph Louis Lagrange | ... 8, 1794, the president of the commission which developed the metric system, | , proposed in a report to the commission the names déci-jour and centi-jou ... |
| Jean Harlow | ... a Shearer Arrouge, along with her first husband Irving Thalberg. Her friend | is in the crypt next door. Thalberg's crypt was engraved "My Sweetheart Fo ... |
| John James Audubon | ... popular, commercial hunting started on a prodigious scale. The bird painter | described the preparations for slaughter at a known pigeon-roosting site |
| Alan Guth | ... ings to generate and transmit de novo information into a distinct universe. | has speculated that a civilization at the top of the Kardashev scale might ... |
| Che Guevara | In 1965 Argentinian revolutionary | used the western shores of Lake Tanganyika as a training camp for guerrill ... |
| Godfrey Hounsfield | ... and of the transverse axial scanning method – this last due to the work of | and South African-born Allan McLeod Cormack – gradually supplanted it as t ... |
| R. H. MacArthur | The concept was derived from | and W. D. Hamilton's work on sex ratios, derived from Fisher's principle, ... |
| Carl Sagan | ... total dispersal of Galileo's plutonium in the Earth's atmosphere. Scientist | , for example, a strong supporter of the Galileo mission, said in 1989 tha ... |
| Andrei Linde | Meanwhile, | , Alan Guth, Ted Harrison, and Ernest Sternglass argue that inflationary c ... |
| Richardson | ... e, in large bodies of water like oceans this coefficient can be found using | 's four-third power law and is governed by the random walk principle. In r ... |
| William Buckland | ... sh geologists and fossil collectors such as Mary Anning, William Conybeare, | , and Gideon Mantell, who found and described the first ichthyosaurs, ples ... |
| Joseph Campbell | ... work is frequently seen as exemplifying the monomyth structure laid out in | 's The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Gaiman says that he started reading The ... |
| Stephen Jay Gould | ... e. Biodiversity became a cause of major concern as habitat destruction, and | 's theory of punctuated equilibrium revolutionized evolutionary thought |
| Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot | ... lved even then, and the following year the ICZN had to act again to prevent | 's 1818 almost-forgotten family name Urinatoridae from overruling the much ... |
| André-Marie Ampère | In 1821, | suggested that telegraphy could be done by a system of galvanometers, with ... |
| Vito Volterra | ... icular case of composition products considered by the Italian mathematician | in 1913 |
| T. R. M. Howard | The couple moved to Mound Bayou, Mississippi, where | had hired Evers as a salesman for his Magnolia Mutual Life Insurance Compa ... |
| D.S.Falconer | The "reeler" mouse was described for the first time in 1951 by | in Edinburgh University as a spontaneous variant arising in a colony of mi ... |
| Gustav von Schmoller | ... st" German historical school of economics, represented by academics such as | and his student Werner Sombart. But, even though Weber's research interest ... |
| Johann Palisa | | | discovered=November 12, 1885| discovery_ref=| alt_names=A915 TN; | named ... |
| Heinrich Matthias Konen | ... he first in the British occupation zone. The first university president was | , who was expelled from the university in 1934 because of his opposition t ... |
| Jean Piaget | ... itive development or the construction of human thought or mental processes. | was one of the more important and influential people in the field of Devel ... |
| Stewart Farrar | ... Gardnerian Book of Shadows. In the 1970s, the Alexandrians Janet Farrar and | decided, with the consent of Doreen Valiente, that much of the Gardnerian ... |
| Maynard Smith | ... opt T instead of S. This fact represents the point of departure of the ESS. | and Price specify two conditions for a strategy S to be an ESS. Eithe |
| John Eccles | Popper and | speculated on the problem of free will for many years generally agreeing o ... |
| Sir John Lubbock | ... ithos, "stone", literally meaning "New Stone Age." The term was invented by | in 1865 as a refinement of the three-age system |
| Nick Cave | ... ey Cricket Ground, also included performances by Powderfinger, Silverchair, | , John Butler Trio, Finn Brothers and others |
| Marcel Riesz | ... rem from which the Hahn–Banach theorem can be derived was proved in 1923 by | |
| Alan Guth | Meanwhile, Andrei Linde, | , Ted Harrison, and Ernest Sternglass argue that inflationary cosmology st ... |
| Werner Sombart | ... mics, represented by academics such as Gustav von Schmoller and his student | . But, even though Weber's research interests were very much in line with ... |
| James Watt | A fundamental change in working principles was brought about by | . In close collaboration with Matthew Boulton, he had succeeded by 1778 in ... |
| Brad DeLong | ... ession, and has been challenged as revisionist by many economists including | of U.C. Berkeley |
| Ilya Prigogine | ... reasing "entropy gap", casting doubt on the heat death hypothesis. Invoking | 's work on far-from-equilibrium thermodynamics, their analysis suggests th ... |
| William Sturgeon | In 1825 | invented the electromagnet, with a single winding of uninsulated wire on a ... |
| Joseph Black | ... ncept of latent heat with respect to volume was perhaps first recognized by | in 1762. The term 'latent heat of expansion' is also used. The latent heat ... |
| Lewis Carroll | ... n a uniquely complex linguistic style, coined the words monomyth and quark. | has been called "the king of neologistic poems" because of his poem, "Jabb ... |
| Henri Poincaré | ... temps was created by the French Bureau of Longitude, with the mathematician | as secretary. The commission proposed making the standard hour the base un ... |
| Olinde Rodrigues | ... nt precursors to this work included Euler's four-square identity (1748) and | ' parameterization of general rotations by four parameters (1840), but nei ... |
| Huygens | ... ad to be justifiable in terms of direct physical action, a position held by | and the German philosopher Gottfried Leibniz, who, while following in the ... |
| Georg Simmel | ... the work of contemporary neo-Kantian philosopher and pioneering sociologist | |
| Erik Erikson | ... ic reasoning." His work can be compared to Lev Vygotsky, Sigmund Freud, and | who were also great contributors in the field of Developmental Psychology |
| Carl Friedrich Gauss | ... either of these writers treated the four-parameter rotations as an algebra. | had also discovered quaternions in 1819, but this work was only published ... |
| Pierce Brodkorb | ... younger Gaviidae. Nowadays, even though some eminent ornithologists such as | tried to keep the debate alive at first, the ICZN's solution has been foun ... |
| Descartes | ... by the Cambridge University Physicist and mathematician Isaac Newton. Where | held that all motions should be explained with respect to the immediate fo ... |
| William Grove | ... alloying the amalgamated zinc with mercury would produce a better voltage. | produced the first fuel cell in 1839. In 1846, Wilhelm Weber developed the ... |
| Johann Palisa | ... ilde is a main-belt asteroid about 50 km in diameter that was discovered by | in 1885. It has a relatively elliptical orbit that requires more than four ... |
| Eduard Helly | ... in the late 1920s, although a special case was proved earlier (in 1912) by | , and a general extension theorem from which the Hahn–Banach theorem can b ... |
| Steve Wozniak | ... orage and retrieval to replace cassettes. The Disk II interface, created by | , was regarded as an engineering masterpiece for its economy of electronic ... |
| Barry Humphries | ... his soul, but repeatedly tricks him. The film features cameo appearances by | as Envy and Raquel Welch as Lust. Moore composed the soundtrack music and ... |
| Galileo Galilei | Lyrical references in this passage include Scaramouche, the fandango, | , Figaro and Bismillah, as rival factions fight over the narrator's soul. ... |
| Averroes | ... uropean universities, and eclipse the names of Rhazes, Ali ibn al-Abbas and | . His work is not essentially different from that of his predecessor Rhaze ... |
| Paul Rozin | Psychologist | suggests that eating chilis is an example of a "constrained risk" like rid ... |
| Jastrow | ... ue; Yer. Nazir vii.56a; Yer. San. i.18a; compare Josephus, B. J. ii.14, § 5 | ;, Dict. p. 838), whence some of the most prominent teachers of the next g ... |
| Charles Peirce | ... o scientific theories about the universe. Popper's falsifiability resembles | 's nineteenth century fallibilism. In Of Clocks and Clouds (1966), Popper ... |
| Eric Chaisson | ... irections distinct from the scenarios set out by Dyson. Theoretical work by | finds that an expanding spacetime gives rise to an increasing "entropy gap ... |
| Charles Sanders Peirce | ... Morris's interpretation of an interpretant, a term used in the semiotics of | , has been understood to be strictly psychological. Morris's system of sig ... |
| Wilhelm Weber | William Grove produced the first fuel cell in 1839. In 1846, | developed the electrodynamometer. In 1868, Georges Leclanché patented a ne ... |
| John C. Frémont | ... -day Saints in the Utah Territory, and a close friend of Arizona's governor | . Virgil and Morgan remained bedridden throughout the trial and did not te ... |
| Joseph Henry | ... shed iron, which increased the magnetic force produced by electric current. | improved it in 1828 by placing several windings of insulated wire around t ... |
| Mary Anning | ... ectacular finds, mostly by English geologists and fossil collectors such as | , William Conybeare, William Buckland, and Gideon Mantell, who found and d ... |
| John Aubrey | ... lton was nearly sixty when he published Paradise Lost in 1667. [The writer] | (1626-97) tell us that the poem was begun in about 1658 and finished in ab ... |
| Ptolemy | ... nce of Southeast Asia had been known to the Greeks. The Egyptian astronomer | in his Geographia named the Malay Peninsula as Aurea Chersonesus (Golden P ... |
| Stefan Banach | ... em, and has numerous uses in convex geometry. It is named for Hans Hahn and | who proved this theorem independently in the late 1920s, although a specia ... |
| George M. Darrow | In the late 1920s, | of the USDA began tracking down reports of a large, reddish-purple berry t ... |
| Plato | Pico based his ideas chiefly on | , as did his teacher, Marsilio Ficino, but retained a deep respect for Ari ... |
| Gary Kildall | After learning about the deal, Digital Research founder | threatened to sue IBM for infringing DRI's intellectual property, and IBM ... |
| Carl Menger | ... om those of other German historicists and were closer, in fact, to those of | and the Austrian School, the traditional rivals of the historical school. ... |
| Harlow Shapley | ... e, orbiting the centre in highly elliptical orbits. In 1917, the astronomer | was able to estimate the Sun's distance from the galactic centre based on ... |
| Stephen Hawking | ... hysics, driven by the development of the integrated circuit, and the laser. | developed his theories of black holes and the boundary-condition of the un ... |
| Ampère | ... eld exerts a force on a current. The phenomenon was further investigated by | , who discovered that two parallel current-carrying wires exerted a force ... |
| Aristotle | ... and functions of parts of the body are also covered. The Canon agrees with | (and disagrees with Hippocrates) that tuberculosis was contagious, a fact ... |
| Charles M. Hall | In 1886, Paul Héroult and | developed an efficient method (the Hall–Héroult process) to obtain alumini ... |
| Paul Scherrer | ... . Leading nuclear physicists at the Federal Institute of Technology such as | made this a realistic possibility, and in 1958 the population clearly vote ... |
| William Rowan Hamilton | Quaternion algebra was introduced by Irish mathematician Sir | in 1843. Important precursors to this work included Euler's four-square id ... |
| Franz Cumont | ... god. (This point has been understood by Mithras scholars since the days of | .) An early example of the Greek form of the name is in a 4th century BC w ... |
| Stephanus of Byzantium | ... the Suda. The modern form "Diogenes Laertius" is much rarer, and occurs in | , and in a lemma to the Greek Anthology. He is also referred to as "Laerte ... |
| Géza Róheim | ... amage in children. Conversely, studying societies that practice infanticide | reported that even infanticidal mothers in New Guinea, who ate a child, di ... |
| Max Weber | ... as contemporary to the formation of the state, later defined by sociologist | as achieving a "monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force" and whic ... |
| Euclid | ... referred to as Euclid's theorem in honor of the ancient Greek mathematician | , since the first known proof for this statement is attributed to him. Man ... |
| John Gorton | ... nister for three weeks until the Liberals could elect a new leader. Senator | won the vote and became Prime Minister. The leadership campaign was conduc ... |
| Pier Paolo Pasolini | ... s after legal release and distribution rights were granted to video and TV. | directed a heavily modernized Italian film version of the play in 1967. Th ... |
| Josh Fisher | One of the licensees of the Multiflow technology is Hewlett-Packard, which | joined after Multiflow's demise. Bob Rau, founder of Cydrome, also joined ... |
| Robert Jay Lifton | ... er the war, two studies of the repatriation of American prisoners of war by | and by Edgar Schein concluded that brainwashing (called "thought reform" b ... |
| Angela Merkel | ... ly." Until recently, Greek Euro zone exit was rejected by German Chancellor | . The German government's current position is, to keep Greece within the e ... |
| Kazimieras Būga | ... be reconstructed as Mindaugas or Mindaugis. In 1909 the Lithuanian linguist | published a research paper supporting the suffix -as, which has since been ... |
| Indiana Jones | ... red Serpent. Similarly, Thom Duncan published an independent novel where an | -type character escapes from a curelom, described as a mammoth. In another ... |
| Hrabanus Maurus | ... elm, Bede, Alcuin - and was abridged or largely used in the next century by | of Fulda and Servatus Lupus of Ferrières. About a thousand manuscripts exi ... |
| Carl Friedrich Gauss | named after | |
| Charles Hatchett | ... ng Uranus, which he discovered, and other planets), and the burial place of | who discovered niobium |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... as found to be the fourth most recognisable after the Queen, Tony Blair and | |
| Walter Kauzmann | ... bonding, an idea first put forth by William Astbury in 1933. Later work by | on denaturation, based partly on previous studies by Kaj Linderstrøm-Lang, ... |
| G. H. Hardy | ... ng the topic. In particular, number theorists such as British mathematician | prided themselves on doing work that had absolutely no military significan ... |
| Jerry Fodor | ... basis for an algorithmic description of how human minds work. Rey builds on | 's representational theory of mind to produce his own version of a Computa ... |
| Galileo Galilei | ... dy the planet Jupiter and its moons. Named after the Renaissance astronomer | , it was launched on October 18, 1989, by the Space Shuttle Atlantis on th ... |
| Isaac Asimov | ... aims; RSEP disbanded and its members, along with others such as Carl Sagan, | , B.F. Skinner, and Philip J. Klass joined Kurtz to form CSICOP |
| Milton Friedman | ... ughart. The book also received favorable reviews from academics Gary Kleck, | , and Thomas Sowell |
| Professor Frink | ... se of Horror XIV" where he is seen presenting the Nobel Prize in Physics to | |
| Alexander Graham Bell | ... rel, and Marie Curie, and inventors such as Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison and | . The world was changing rapidly, too rapidly for many, who feared the cha ... |
| Huey P. Newton | ... 70s, Horowitz developed a close friendship with Black Panther Party founder | . In Horowitz's subsequent writings, Newton is depicted as equal parts gan ... |
| Maurice Loyal Huggins | ... , Latimer and Rodebush cite work by a fellow scientist at their laboratory, | , saying, "Mr. Huggins of this laboratory in some work as yet unpublished, ... |
| John Maynard Smith | Evolutionarily stable strategies were defined and introduced by | and George R. Price in a 1973 Nature paper. Such was the time taken in pee ... |
| Donald Knuth | In 1983, Zapf had completed the typeface AMS Euler with | and David Siegel of Stanford University for the American Mathematical Soci ... |
| Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz | ... urik. In this vessel, with only twenty-seven men, including the naturalists | and Adelbert von Chamisso, and the artist Louis Choris, Kotzebue set out o ... |
| Richard Leakey | ... Turkana Boy which was found by Kamoya Kimeu in 1984 on an excavation led by | . The oldest Acheulean tools ever discovered anywhere in the world are fro ... |
| Thomas Bopp | ... he comet was discovered in 1995 by two independent observers, Alan Hale and | , both in the United States |
| Maurice Wilkins | ... klin. Crick and Watson felt that they had benefited from collaborating with | . They offered him a co-authorship on the article that first described the ... |
| Radhanath Sikdar | In 1852, stationed at the survey's headquarters in Dehradun, | , an Indian mathematician and surveyor from Bengal, was the first to ident ... |
| Samuel Johnson | ... d became a major literary and artistic patron. Among his beneficiaries were | , Tobias Smollett, Robert Adam, William Robertson and John Hill. He also g ... |
| Linus Pauling | In the book The Nature of the Chemical Bond, | credits T. S. Moore and T. F. Winmill with the first mention of the hydrog ... |
| Walther Hermann Nernst | ... studies of the conductivity and electrolytic dissociation of organic acids. | developed the theory of the electromotive force of the voltaic cell in 188 ... |
| Ludwig von Sybel | ... ft two sons, one of whom became an officer in the Prussian army; the other, | (b. 1846), a professor of archaeology in the university of Marburg, was th ... |
| Thomas Edison | ... aday, Henri Becquerel, and Marie Curie, and inventors such as Nikola Tesla, | and Alexander Graham Bell. The world was changing rapidly, too rapidly for ... |
| Hans Sloane | ... since its foundation in 1753 after receiving 160 Egyptian objects from Sir | . After the defeat of the forces under Napoleon at the Battle of the Nile ... |
| Ted Harrison | Meanwhile, Andrei Linde, Alan Guth, | , and Ernest Sternglass argue that inflationary cosmology strongly suggest ... |
| John Maynard Keynes | ... r among merchants because it was what is now called "rent seeking". However | argued that encouraging production was just as important as consumption,an ... |
| Ernst Gräfenberg | ... G-Spot" was coined by Addiego et al. in 1981, after the German gynecologist | , even though his 1940s research was dedicated to urethral stimulation and ... |
| William Herschel | ... old. It was the marriage place (May 7, 1788) and burial place (1822) of Sir | (in whose memory there stands a newly erected stained-glass window depicti ... |
| Archie Carr | Noted residents include the late zoologist and author | and his conservationist wife, Marjorie Harris Carr, who lived for many yea ... |
| Jessica Utts | ... results generated by the Stargate project. Reviewers included Ray Hyman and | . Utts maintained that there had been a statistically significant positive ... |
| Robert Boyer | In 1931, Ford hired chemists | and Frank Calvert to produce artificial silk. They succeeded in making a t ... |
| Aleksandr Lyapunov | ... poles. Non-linear control systems use specific theories (normally based on | 's Theory) to ensure stability without regard to the inner dynamics of the ... |
| William Astbury | ... secondary structures based on hydrogen bonding, an idea first put forth by | in 1933. Later work by Walter Kauzmann on denaturation, based partly on pr ... |
| Martin Gardner | ... a tiling of the plane with integral squares, each having a different size. | has published an extensive article written by about the early history of s ... |
| James Clerk Maxwell | ... tromagnetic waves can travel over some distance. This had been predicted by | and Michael Faraday. With his apparatus configuration, the electric and ma ... |
| Joseph Tykociński-Tykociner | ... ube laboratory of the Electrical Engineering Department, where he succeeded | . With his students he developed many innovative devices, including ultra- ... |
| Richard Trevithick | ... ured goods. George Stephenson cannot claim to have invented the locomotive. | deserves that credit. George Stephenson, with his work on the Stockton and ... |
| Carl Friedrich Gauss | ... tromagnetic telegraph was created by Baron Schilling in Russia, and in 1833 | and Wilhelm Weber invented their own code to communicate over a distance o ... |
| Kamoya Kimeu | ... 6 million year old Homo erectus known as the Turkana Boy which was found by | in 1984 on an excavation led by Richard Leakey. The oldest Acheulean tools ... |
| David Maurer | ... mes perpetrated by the brothers Fred and Charley Gondorff and documented by | in his book The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man |
| John Maclear | ... outh, England, on 21 December 1872. Other naval officers included Commander | . Under the scientific supervision of Thomson himself, she travelled nearl ... |
| Charles Green | ... eph Banks, Banks' assistants Daniel Solander and Herman Spöring, astronomer | , and artists Sydney Parkinson and Alexander Buchan. These cabins encircle ... |
| Vladimir Pokhilko | ... iet government, Pajitnov did not receive royalties. Pajitnov, together with | , moved to the United States in 1991 and later, in 1996, founded The Tetri ... |
| Steven Weinberg | ... image, where scientists (including the physicists Murray Gell-Mann in 2002, | in 2005, and the mathematician Andrew Wiles in 2003) take a walk from Duns ... |
| Carl Sagan | ... sful in his aims; RSEP disbanded and its members, along with others such as | , Isaac Asimov, B.F. Skinner, and Philip J. Klass joined Kurtz to form CSI ... |
| Max Perutz | ... hese data were shown to them, without her knowledge, by Maurice Wilkins and | . Her experimental results provided estimates of the water content of DNA ... |
| Euclid of Alexandria | ... in's general theory of relativity, and is named for the Greek mathematician | |
| Nikola Tesla | ... l, Michael Faraday, Henri Becquerel, and Marie Curie, and inventors such as | , Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell. The world was changing rapidly, ... |
| Jeremiah Horrocks | ... e work of the astrologer John Gadbury which included astronomical tables by | , who had died in 1641 at the age of twenty-three. Flamsteed was greatly i ... |
| Ray Hyman | ... uation of the results generated by the Stargate project. Reviewers included | and Jessica Utts. Utts maintained that there had been a statistically sign ... |
| Albertus Magnus | ... he existence of "speaking heads" involved Gerbert of Aurillac (d. 1003 AD), | (1198–1280), and Roger Bacon (1214–1294) |
| Ptol. | Tindari , anciently Tyndaris or Tyndarion (Greek: , Strab.; , | ) is a small city (a frazione) in the comune of Patti, in the Province of ... |
| Plato | ... Rhadamanthus and Minos) one of the three judges in Hades, and according to | especially for the shades of Europeans. In works of art he was represented ... |
| Fernando Henrique Cardoso | ... s. In 1998, a constitutional reform, led by the government of the President | , introduced regulatory agencies as a part of the executive branch. Since ... |
| George R. Price | ... ily stable strategies were defined and introduced by John Maynard Smith and | in a 1973 Nature paper. Such was the time taken in peer-reviewing the pape ... |
| Frederick Sanger | The first protein to be sequenced was insulin, by | , in 1949. Sanger correctly determined the amino acid sequence of insulin, ... |
| Joseph Valentin Boussinesq | ... nature of contact cite his two papers as a source for some important ideas. | published some critically important observations on Hertz's work, neverthe ... |
| Jang Yeong-sil | ... sydra clock, and sighting tube fixed to observe the pole star indefinitely. | , a Korean inventor, was ordered by King Sejong the Great of Joseon to bui ... |
| Pliny the Elder | ... liary cavalry unit. The thermal springs of Wiesbaden are first mentioned in | 's Naturalis Historia. They were famous for their recreation pools for Rom ... |
| James Dobson | ... video contained "no reference to sex, sexual lifestyle or sexual identity." | of Focus on the Family accused the makers of the video of promoting homose ... |
| Edgar F. Codd | Tuple calculus is a calculus that was introduced by | as part of the relational model, in order to provide a declarative databas ... |
| Roger Bacon | ... involved Gerbert of Aurillac (d. 1003 AD), Albertus Magnus (1198–1280), and | (1214–1294) |
| Ibn Bajjah | ... dy, and wrote a great deal on psychology, likely influencing Ibn Tufayl and | . He also introduced medical herbs |
| Paul Samuelson | ... cantilism have sometimes led critics to call them neo-mercantilism. Indeed, | , writing within a Keynesian framework, defended mercantilism, writing: "W ... |
| Joseph Henry | Then in 1835 | invented the critical electrical relay, by which a weak current could oper ... |
| William Julius Wilson | Rustin's analysis was supported by the later research by | . Wilson documented an increase in inequality within the Black community, ... |
| Marie Curie | ... steur, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, Michael Faraday, Henri Becquerel, and | , and inventors such as Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham B ... |
| Andrew Wiles | ... ts Murray Gell-Mann in 2002, Steven Weinberg in 2005, and the mathematician | in 2003) take a walk from Dunsink Observatory to the Royal Canal bridge wh ... |
| Robert Wilson | ... eories were active contenders until the 1965 discovery, by Arno Penzias and | , of the cosmic microwave background radiation, a fact that is a straightf ... |
| Zu Chongzhi | ... e also noted by historians. The famous Chinese mathematician and astronomer | (429–500 AD) belonged to this age, an intellectual and social product of t ... |
| Henri Becquerel | ... the work of Louis Pasteur, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, Michael Faraday, | , and Marie Curie, and inventors such as Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison and A ... |
| Wilhelm Ostwald | ... the behaviour of dilute solutions and gases. In 1887, he and German chemist | founded an influential scientific magazine named Zeitschrift für physikali ... |
| Einstein's | ... inguishes these spaces from the curved spaces of non-Euclidean geometry and | general theory of relativity, and is named for the Greek mathematician Euc ... |
| Paul Moskowitz | ... ase consumer privacy. The Clipped Tag has been suggested by IBM researchers | and Guenter Karjoth. After the point of sale, a consumer may tear off a po ... |
| Theophrastus | ... biographies of the former begin with Anaximander, and end with Clitomachus, | and Chrysippus; the latter begins with Pythagoras, and ends with Epicurus. ... |
| William Whiston | ... The 1544 Greek edition formed the basis of the 1732 English translation by | , which achieved enormous popularity in the English-speaking world (and wh ... |
| Leslie Orgel | ... rned with the origins of the genetic code. In 1966, Crick took the place of | at a meeting where Orgel was to talk about the origin of life. Crick specu ... |
| Charles Marie de La Condamine | ... her Fritz, apostle of the Omaguas, established some forty mission villages. | accomplished the first scientific exploration of the Amazon River |
| Aristotle | ... ew Philocles took first prize at that competition. However, in his Poetics, | considered Oedipus the King to be the tragedy best matched his prescriptio ... |
| C. A. B. Smith | It is first recorded as being studied by R. L. Brooks, | , A. H. Stone and W. T. Tutte at Cambridge University |
| Pierre Schaeffer | ... nd of one of Jarre's fellow-pupils at the Groupe de Recherches Musicales of | , where Jarre had learned to use synthesizers, including the EMS VCS 3, wh ... |
| famous physicist | ... y career. He changed his surname from Einstein (to avoid confusion with the | ) and began a comedy career that quickly made him a regular on variety and ... |
| Aristotle | ... socialist thought in the politics of classical Greek philosophers Plato and | |
| John Evelyn | ... ge parasol of the Chinese Government officials, borne by native attendants. | , in his Diary for June 22, 1664, mentions a collection of rarities shown ... |
| Felix Hausdorff | ... principle is an alternate and earlier formulation of Zorn's lemma proved by | in 1914 (Moore 1982:168). It states that in any partially ordered set, eve ... |
| Michael Faraday | ... ern science, with the work of Louis Pasteur, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, | , Henri Becquerel, and Marie Curie, and inventors such as Nikola Tesla, Th ... |
| Plato | In his dialogue Cratylus, the Greek philosopher | , 428/427 BC – 348/347 BC, gives the etymology of Athena's name, based on ... |
| José Celestino Mutis | ... he eighteenth century, the figure of the priest, mathematician and botanist | (1732–1808), was delegated by the Viceroy Antonio Caballero y Gongora to c ... |
| Johannes de Sacrobosco | ... stronomy. In July 1662, he was fascinated by the thirteenth century work of | , De sphaera mundi, and on 12 September 1662 observed his first partial so ... |
| James B. Sumner | ... s as enzymes in living organisms was not fully appreciated until 1926, when | showed that the enzyme urease was in fact a protein |
| Ctesibius | ... t c. AD), who referred to the now lost works of the 3rd century BC engineer | , this weapon was inspired by an earlier foot-held crossbow, called the ga ... |
| Daniel Dennett | ... ubjectively aware of by way of introspection. Rey suggests that people like | are wrong to view "beliefs" as only being useful instruments by which Folk ... |
| W. D. Hamilton | The concept was derived from R. H. MacArthur and | 's work on sex ratios, derived from Fisher's principle, especially Hamilto ... |
| Bernhard Riemann | ... equation, due to Arnold Sommerfeld, a generalization of an equation due to | and known as the Riemann–Sommerfeld equation or the covariant form of the ... |
| John Dewey | ... He vigorously attacked progressive school reformers such as Horace Mann and | and argued for the dismantling of the state's influence in education in th ... |
| Heraclitus | Thus he does not scruple to declare that Socrates and | were Christians (Apol., i. 46, ii. 10). His aim, of course, is to emphasiz ... |
| Apollonius | Priscian's grammar is based on the earlier works of Herodian and | . The examples it includes to illustrate the rules preserve numerous fragm ... |
| Carl von Voit | Early nutritional scientists such as the German | believed that protein was the most important nutrient for maintaining the ... |
| Ludwik Silberstein | ... ity, including the Thomas precession. He cited five authors, beginning with | who use a potential function of one quaternion variable to express Maxwell ... |
| William Safire | The development was originally to be named "Sunnydale", but | , a friend of the developer, Herbert Sadkin, convinced him to change his m ... |
| Plato | ... the Pythagoreans, allegedly exercised an important influence on the work of | . According to R. M. Hare, this influence consists of three points: (1) Th ... |
| Stewart Farrar | ... r of occasions by figures such as Charles Cardell, Lady Sheba and Janet and | . In other Wiccan traditions and amongst a number of solitary practitioner ... |
| Herodian | Priscian's grammar is based on the earlier works of | and Apollonius. The examples it includes to illustrate the rules preserve ... |
| Carl Friedrich Gauss | | , one of the most influential mathematicians of the early 19th century, de ... |
| Chrysippus | ... e former begin with Anaximander, and end with Clitomachus, Theophrastus and | ; the latter begins with Pythagoras, and ends with Epicurus. The Socratic ... |
| Walter William Skeat | ... rface of the water. Robinson replied, "A schooner let her be." According to | , the term schooner comes from scoon, while the sch spelling comes from th ... |
| David Ricardo | ... ist thinkers, such as Thomas Hodgkin and Charles Hall, based their ideas on | 's economic theories. They reasoned that the equilibrium value of commodit ... |
| George Lakoff | ... s can be understood in the book Philosophy in the Flesh by Mark Johnson and | . They argue that the contents of human thoughts are to some degree depend ... |
| Ray Hyman | ... wide range of paranormal claims. Amongst those invited were Martin Gardner, | , James Randi, and Marcello Truzzi, all members of the Resources for the S ... |
| Bertram Raven | Social psychologists John R. P. French and | , in a now-classic study (1959), developed a schema of sources of power by ... |
| Gregor Mendel | ... eginning of modern science, with the work of Louis Pasteur, Charles Darwin, | , Michael Faraday, Henri Becquerel, and Marie Curie, and inventors such as ... |
| Albert Einstein | ... rtz helped establish the photoelectric effect (which was later explained by | ) when he noticed that a charged object loses its charge more readily when ... |
| Hero of Alexandria | ... of crossbows however, can be dated further back: According to the inventor | (fl. 1st c. AD), who referred to the now lost works of the 3rd century BC ... |
| Doris Day | ... ated how his Stalinist parents had not permitted him or his sister to watch | and Rock Hudson movies. Instead, they were required to watch propaganda fi ... |
| Arnold Sommerfeld | ... tential A and the scalar potential φ. The resulting single equation, due to | , a generalization of an equation due to Bernhard Riemann and known as the ... |
| Alexander von Humboldt | On August 15, 1801, the Prussian scientist | reached Fontibón where Mutis, and began his expedition to New Granada, Qui ... |
| August Schleicher | ... fic Compendium of Lithuanian language was published in German in 1856/57 by | , a professor at Prague University. In it he describes Prussian-Lithuanian ... |
| Milton Berle | ... n American stand-up comedy, Jack Benny, Bob Hope, George Burns, Fred Allen, | and Frank Fay all came from vaudeville. They spoke directly to the audienc ... |
| Leonhard Euler | ... hed on her suggestion in Saint Petersburg in 1765. She lured the scientists | and Peter Simon Pallas from Berlin and Anders Johan Lexell from Sweden to ... |
| Wheatstone | ... ed the electrical telegraph, demonstrated commercially in 1837 by Cooke and | , was one of its earliest applications. With the construction of first int ... |
| Randle Cotgrave | In | 's "Dictionary of the French and English Tongues" (1614), the French Ombre ... |
| Michael Faraday | ... avel over some distance. This had been predicted by James Clerk Maxwell and | . With his apparatus configuration, the electric and magnetic fields would ... |
| Charles Darwin | ... y was also the beginning of modern science, with the work of Louis Pasteur, | , Gregor Mendel, Michael Faraday, Henri Becquerel, and Marie Curie, and in ... |
| Charles Darwin | ... g and famed for their vast number of endemic species, which were studied by | during the voyage of the Beagle. His observations and collections contribu ... |
| Prince Charles | ... gh took up residence at Clarence House. Their first two children were born: | in 1948 and Princess Anne in 1950 |
| Robert V. Gentry | ... 20th century, but wider interest was prompted by the claims of creationist | that radiohalos in biotite are evidence for a young earth . These claims a ... |
| Murray Rothbard | ... atened to undermine the post-World War II international economic structure. | , representing the Austrian School of economics, describes it this way |
| Linus Pauling | ... se A become a major target for biochemical study for the following decades. | is credited with the successful prediction of regular protein secondary st ... |
| Pythagoras | ... d end with Clitomachus, Theophrastus and Chrysippus; the latter begins with | , and ends with Epicurus. The Socratic school, with its various branches, ... |
| William Oughtred | ... ff an interest in sundials. In the summer of 1663, he read Wingate's Canon, | 's Canon, and Thomas Stirrup's Art of Dialling. At about the same time, he ... |
| Julius Scheiner | ... eath the misnomer Johann Christian Doppler was introduced by the astronomer | . Scheiner's mistake has since been copied by many |
| Russell Targ | In the early 1970s, Harold E. Puthoff and | joined the Electronics and Bioengineering Laboratory at Stanford Research ... |
| Joseph Campbell | ... lessness, and/or an acceptance of one's own negative qualities, as it is by | |
| Brian Cox | ... sted by Sir Patrick Moore, along with Dr. Chris Lintott, Jon Culshaw, Prof. | , and the Astronomer Royal Martin Rees who on leaving the panel told Brian ... |
| Leonardo da Vinci | ... nfluenced famous painters such as Piero della Francesca, Albrecht Dürer and | , to name a few |
| Alexander von Humboldt | ... poor to develop the telegraph on their own, but they received funding from | . Carl August Steinheil in Munich was able to build a telegraph network wi ... |
| Louis Pasteur | The 19th century was also the beginning of modern science, with the work of | , Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, Michael Faraday, Henri Becquerel, and Mar ... |
| George Bernard Shaw | ... having his name to the Irish Nobel pantheon featuring William Butler Yeats, | and Samuel Beckett, Heaney responded: "It's like being a little foothill a ... |
| W. W. Skeat | All modern discussion of the text revolves around the classifications of | . Skeat argued that there are as many as ten forms of the poem, but only t ... |
| Paul Pelliot | ... colonel in the Russian army, who travelled to China with French sinologist | . Mannerheim was disguised as an ethnographic collector, using a Finnish p ... |
| W. T. Tutte | ... recorded as being studied by R. L. Brooks, C. A. B. Smith, A. H. Stone and | at Cambridge University |
| Mircea Eliade | Kehoe is highly critical of | 's work on shamanism as an invention synthesized from various sources unsu ... |
| Plato | ... ements of socialist thought in the politics of classical Greek philosophers | and Aristotle |
| Martin Gardner | ... ng critically a wide range of paranormal claims. Amongst those invited were | , Ray Hyman, James Randi, and Marcello Truzzi, all members of the Resource ... |
| Frank Spedding | ... tion from Bayan Obo, China, with an even "richer" europium content of 0.2%. | , celebrated for his development of the ion-exchange technology that revol ... |
| Adelbert von Chamisso | ... y-seven men, including the naturalists Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz and | , and the artist Louis Choris, Kotzebue set out on July 30, 1815 to find a ... |
| Varro | ... wise have been lost, including Ennius, Pacuvius, Accius, Lucilius, Cato and | . But the authors whom he quotes most frequently are Virgil, and, next to ... |
| Bertrand Russell | ... dicisse Pythagorea omnia ("They say Plato learned all things Pythagorean"). | , in his A History of Western Philosophy, contended that the influence of ... |
| Ehud Netzer | A careful reading of Josephus' writings and years of excavation allowed | , an archaeologist from Hebrew University, to discover the location of Her ... |
| Thomas Street | ... , and Thomas Stirrup's Art of Dialling. At about the same time, he acquired | 's Astronomia Carolina, or A New Theory of the Celestial Motions (Caroline ... |
| Andrew Taylor Still | ... thy began in the United States in 1874. The term "osteopathy" was coined by | , MD, DO. Still was a physician and surgeon, Kansas state and territorial ... |
| Edward Louis Bernays | ... d individuals to achieve mutual understanding and realize strategic goals." | , who is considered the founding father of modern public relations along w ... |
| Charles Darwin | ... from speculating about the gradual transmutation of species, right up until | published On the Origin of Species more than two decades after Cuvier's de ... |
| Jean Baudrillard | ... production will be reflected in all activity, including the making of art. | has had a significant influence on postmodern-inspired art and has emphasi ... |
| Harold E. Puthoff | In the early 1970s, | and Russell Targ joined the Electronics and Bioengineering Laboratory at S ... |
| A. H. Stone | It is first recorded as being studied by R. L. Brooks, C. A. B. Smith, | and W. T. Tutte at Cambridge University |
| Robert Harkness | ... the theory of natural selection was another schooled in Dumfries. Geologist | was schooled in Dumfries and subsequently resided in the town. Sir Frank W ... |
| Georges Lemaître | In 1927, | set out a theory that has since come to be called the Big Bang theory of t ... |
| Steven Lukes | In Power: A radical view (1974) | outlines two dimensions through which power had been theorised in the earl ... |
| John Maclear | ... most senior officer present throughout the entire expedition, was Commander | . Willemoes-Suhm died and was buried at sea on the voyage to Tahiti. Lord ... |
| Henri Poincaré | ... 7) and Lorentz (1899, 1904) derived the Lorentz transformation (so named by | ) as one under which Maxwell's equations were invariant. Poincaré (1900) a ... |
| Karl Bühler | In 1928, he earned a doctorate in psychology, under the supervision of | . His dissertation was entitled "Die Methodenfrage der Denkpsychologie" (T ... |
| Pierre Leroux | The term socialism is attributed to | , and to Marie Roch Louis Reybaud; and in Britain to Robert Owen in 1827, ... |
| Louis Leakey | ... the presence of ancient early human ancestors in Kenya was discovered when | unearthed 1 million year old Acheulian hand axes at Kariandusi in south we ... |
| Charles Tennant | ... development of bleaching powder (calcium hypochlorite) by Scottish chemist | in about 1800, based on the discoveries of French chemist Claude Louis Ber ... |
| Charles Wheatstone | ... l electrical telegraph was co-developed by Sir William Fothergill Cooke and | . Cooke and Wheatstone patented it in May 1837 as an alarm system, and it ... |
| David Hume | Adam Smith and | were the founding fathers of anti-mercantilist thought. A number of schola ... |
| Alexander Hamilton | ... se would also serve as the County Circuit Court. The county was named after | , the first secretary of the treasury |
| Johan Jørgen Holst | ... ior minister. The late Marianne Heiberg, married to former Foreign Minister | , was his aunt on his mother's side. Stoltenberg is married to the diploma ... |
| Sydney Brenner | Crick addressed the Origin of Protein Synthesis in a paper with | , Aaron Klug, and George Pieczenik. In this paper, based on Pieczenik's wo ... |
| Professor X | ... the Marvel Universe, the X-Men are widely regarded to have been named after | avier himself. Xavier however claims that the name "X-Men" was never chose ... |
| Werner Sombart | ... r intellectuals such as his wife Marianne, Georg Jellinek, Ernst Troeltsch, | , Marc Bloch, Robert Michels and György Lukács. Weber also remained active ... |
| Copernican | ... h century the Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno, an early supporter of the | theory that the Earth and other planets orbit the Sun, put forward the vie ... |
| Goethe | ... during Sturm und Drang, with such works as The Sorrows of Young Werther by | or in Romanticism with works such as Ode on Melancholy by John Keats. In t ... |
| David Guest | ... had no religious upbringing. Nearly a decade before he was born, his uncle | , a lecturer and Communist Party member, was killed in the Spanish Civil W ... |
| Michael Harner | ... n drawing from core shamanism—a set of beliefs and practices synthesized by | —centered use of ritual drumming and dance, and Harner's interpretations o ... |
| Adam Smith | ... t. A number of scholars found important flaws with mercantilism long before | developed an ideology that could fully replace it. Critics like Hume, Dudl ... |
| Wernher von Braun | ... the United States Navy. The Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA) under Dr. | had suggested using a modified Redstone rocket (see: Juno I) while the Air ... |
| William Crookes | ... ers included Michael Faraday, Alfred Russel Wallace, Rufus Osgood Mason and | . Their work predominantly involved carrying out focused experimental test ... |
| Albert Einstein | ... Transformation or even the FitzGerald - Lorentz - Einstein Transformation. | dismissed the notion of the aether as an unnecessary one, and he concluded ... |
| Ginger Rogers | ... es in 1936 to write the music for Shall We Dance, starring Fred Astaire and | . Gershwin's extended score, which would marry ballet with jazz in a new w ... |
| Charles Darwin | William Charles Wells, predecessor to | on the theory of natural selection was another schooled in Dumfries. Geolo ... |
| David Alter | Across the Atlantic, in 1836 an American scientist, Dr. | , invented the first known American electric telegraph, in Elderton, Penns ... |
| Gräfenberg | ... lation appeared shortly after, in 1950, with the publication of an essay by | based on his observations of women during orgasm |
| Aaron Klug | ... k addressed the Origin of Protein Synthesis in a paper with Sydney Brenner, | , and George Pieczenik. In this paper, based on Pieczenik's work, they spe ... |
| Joseph Rotblat | ... ard Davies, Michael Foot, Arthur Goss, Kingsley Martin, J. B. Priestley and | |
| Pope Sylvester II | ... in the late 10th century with the efforts of Gerbert d'Aurillac, the later | (r. 999–1003). Pope Sylvester II applied the use of sighting tubes with hi ... |
| Lemony Snicket | Daniel Handler's introduction in | 's continually introduces a new story about a page into the previous one, ... |
| Gustav Ludwig Hertz | His nephew | was a Nobel Prize winner, and Gustav's son Carl Hellmuth Hertz invented me ... |
| Konrad Zuse | ... special exhibition opened which featured the inventions of computer pioneer | , including a reproduction of the Z1 |
| Carl Benjamin Boyer | ... e finite.". He also provided a wrong explanation of the rainbow phenomenon. | described Avicenna's ("Ibn Sīnā") theory on the rainbow as follows |
| Jöns Jacob Berzelius | ... the Dutch chemist Gerardus Johannes Mulder and named by the Swedish chemist | in 1838. Mulder carried out elemental analysis of common proteins and foun ... |
| Alfred Russel Wallace | ... in the mid-nineteenth century; early researchers included Michael Faraday, | , Rufus Osgood Mason and William Crookes. Their work predominantly involve ... |
| Gene Sharp | | , an American professor of political science, believes that power depends ... |
| Éamon de Valera | ... iffith's concept of an Anglo-Irish dual monarchy and the new members, under | , who wanted to achieve a republic. Matters almost led to a split at the p ... |
| Jarkko Oikarinen | ... mechanism. However the Relay Chat itself was somewhat closely replicated by | 's Internet Relay Chat |
| Freud | It is also described by | in pathological terms in his study of Dora (1905), where he relates it to ... |
| Mwai Kibaki | ... constitutionally barred from running in the 2002 election, which was won by | . Widely reported electoral fraud on Kibaki's side in the 2007 elections r ... |
| Georges Lemaître | ... erse. Alexander Friedman proposed a number of such solutions in 1922 as did | in 1927. In some of these the universe has been expanding from an initial ... |
| Fritz Schaudinn | ... a commensal organism. Lösch's organism was renamed Entamoeba histolytica by | in 1903; he later died, in 1906, from a self inflicted infection when stud ... |
| Doris Day | ... of the late swing and bebop eras, including June Christy, Chris Connor and | |
| Tycho Brahe | Further advances in the instrument were made by | (1546–1601), whose elaborate armillary spheres passing into astrolabes are ... |
| Rufus Osgood Mason | ... century; early researchers included Michael Faraday, Alfred Russel Wallace, | and William Crookes. Their work predominantly involved carrying out focuse ... |
| Thomas J. J. See | ... y probable" that there was a "planetary body" in this system. In the 1890s, | of the University of Chicago and the United States Naval Observatory state ... |
| Plato | ... the comparison of "practical" (praktikos) and "intellectual" (gnostikos) in | 's dialogue between Young Socrates and the Foreigner in his The Statesman ... |
| Stephen Demainbray | ... follow a course of lectures on natural philosophy by the itinerant lecturer | . This led to an increased interest in natural philosophy on the part of t ... |
| Leonardo da Vinci | Another ad, featuring | drawing the Mona Lisa as she eats a Caramilk has won a Clio award |
| Edwin Hubble | In 1931, | published his conclusion, based on his observations of Cepheid variable st ... |
| Mort Sahl | In the 1950s and into the 1960s, stand-ups like | began developing their acts in small folk clubs like San Francisco's hungr ... |
| Robert V. Gentry | Giant radiohaloes caused some excitement when | proposed that they resulted from the decay chain of unidentified primordia ... |
| Nicolas Leblanc | ... duction of an alkali on a large scale became an important goal as well, and | succeeded in 1791 in introducing a method for the production of sodium car ... |
| Glenn T. Seaborg | ... discovery of americium in 1944, the periodic table had been restructured by | to its present layout, containing the actinide row below the lanthanide on ... |
| Clausius | ... definite thermal constitutive properties. The classical rule, recognized by | and by Kelvin, is that the pressure exerted by the calorimetric material i ... |
| Gerardus Johannes Mulder | Proteins were first described by the Dutch chemist | and named by the Swedish chemist Jöns Jacob Berzelius in 1838. Mulder carr ... |
| Richard Dawkins | ... ossils, was subtropical, and supported an environment lush with vegetation. | suggests that Antarctica, "provided a clement and ratite-friendly land bri ... |
| Thomas Henry Tizard | ... sons of Scottish botanist John Hutton Balfour). Also among the officers was | who had already carried out important hydrographic observations on previou ... |
| Carl Linnaeus | The genus name Glycine was originally introduced by | (1737) in his first edition of Genera Plantarum. The word glycine is deriv ... |
| David Ricardo | ... arative advantage (although this idea was only fully fleshed out in 1817 by | ) and the benefits of trade |
| Avenzoar | ... ome, dissected pigs and goats, and is known as the "father of vivisection." | , an Arabic physician in 12th-century who also practiced dissection, intro ... |
| Philipp Lenard | ... that cathode rays could penetrate very thin metal foil (such as aluminium). | , a student of Heinrich Hertz, further researched this "ray effect". He de ... |
| Michael Faraday | ... cientists started in the mid-nineteenth century; early researchers included | , Alfred Russel Wallace, Rufus Osgood Mason and William Crookes. Their wor ... |
| Theodor Kaluza | ... ty has also has a close relationship with Maxwell's equations. For example, | and Oskar Klein showed duirng the 1920s that Maxwell's equations could be ... |
| Steven Levitt | On April 10, 2006, John Lott filed suit for defamation against | and HarperCollins Publishers over the book Freakonomics and against Levitt ... |
| Danny Cohen | ... ly comes from Jonathan Swift's satirical novel Gulliver’s Travels by way of | in 1980. In 1726, Swift described tensions in Lilliput and Blefuscu: where ... |
| Robert Michels | ... wife Marianne, Georg Jellinek, Ernst Troeltsch, Werner Sombart, Marc Bloch, | and György Lukács. Weber also remained active in Verein and the Evangelica ... |
| Pierre | ... he Greek piezein (πιέζειν), meaning to press, and was discovered in 1880 by | and Jacques Curie. The effect is reciprocal, and when a piezoelectric mate ... |
| George Bernard Shaw | ... ws was born in Synge Street, Dublin, Ireland, the same street as playwright | . He was educated at the local school, Synge Street CBS. (His first name c ... |
| C. A. Wurtz | ... y. He then studied in Bonn, Germany with Friedrich Kekulé and in Paris with | . He received his doctorate under Eduard Mulder at the University of Utrec ... |
| Emmy Noether | ... of the structure theory of commutative rings in the works of David Hilbert, | , and Emil Artin |
| William Bartram | ... ter Spain ceded the Florida territory in 1821. When explorer and naturalist | visited in 1774, it was the site of a Seminole village called Cuscowilla. ... |
| Sigmund Freud | | and Klein argue that men and women have had biases against each other beca ... |
| Ormsby M. Mitchel | On the morning of April 11, 1862, Union troops led by General | seized Huntsville to sever the Confederacy's rail communications. The Unio ... |
| Simon Schama | ... "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?", but according to historian | this is incorrect: he accepts the account of the contemporary biographer E ... |
| Russell Targ | ... iew and separated at some distance. The term was coined by parapsychologist | and Harold Puthoff while running the SRI team, to distinguish it from clai ... |
| John Hutton Balfour | ... Campbell, and Andrew Francis Balfour (one of the sons of Scottish botanist | ). Also among the officers was Thomas Henry Tizard who had already carried ... |
| Ronald McNair | ... on-based astronauts including Bruce McCandless II, and former Jazz musician | , who was to have played the saxophone on "Rendez-Vous VI", recorded in th ... |
| Skeat | ... g.) There is little actual evidence for this proposal, and much against it. | believed that the A-text was incomplete and based his editions on a B-text ... |
| Charles Davenant | ... ng this mistake in the 1620s, and point to their followers Josiah Child and | , who, in 1699, wrote: "Gold and Silver are indeed the Measure of Trade, b ... |
| Plato | Both | and Isocrates affirm that, above all else, Pythagoras was famous for leavi ... |
| Emil Artin | ... heory of commutative rings in the works of David Hilbert, Emmy Noether, and | |
| Bertrand Russell | ... h the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Collins was chosen as its Chairman, | as its President and Peggy Duff as its organising secretary. The other mem ... |
| Lawrence of Arabia | ... sly begun to support Sharif Hussein bin Ali, Emir of the Hejaz by seconding | in 1915. The Saudi Ikhwan began conflict with Emir Feisal also in 1917 jus ... |
| Prosper Mérimée | ... t of criminality.Particularly notable are classics like the story Carmen by | and the opera based on it by Georges Bizet, Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of ... |
| Oskar Klein | ... lose relationship with Maxwell's equations. For example, Theodor Kaluza and | showed duirng the 1920s that Maxwell's equations could be derived by exten ... |
| Werner Sombart | ... nce and Social Welfare, where he worked with his colleagues Edgar Jaffé and | . His new interests would lie in more fundamental issues of social science ... |
| Nikola Tomašić | ... Rauch appointed him a university professor in Zagreb in 1908. However, when | , his distant cousin and enemy, became ban in 1910, Šufflay had to leave t ... |
| Mathurin Jacques Brisson | ... xed to Sweden. It was moved to the new genus Aquila by French ornithologist | in 1760 |
| Branko Grünbaum | ... ied solution for over 30 years. In Tilings and Patterns, published in 1987, | and G. C. Shephard stated that in all perfect integral tilings of the plan ... |
| Antonio Manetti | Around this time he was taught geometry by | |
| Heraclides Ponticus | ... rtal. His ideas of reincarnation were influenced by ancient Greek religion. | reports the story that Pythagoras claimed that he had lived four lives tha ... |
| Murray Gell-Mann | ... ooth has organized a pilgrimage, where scientists (including the physicists | in 2002, Steven Weinberg in 2005, and the mathematician Andrew Wiles in 20 ... |
| Brian Josephson | ... asha Demkina. In a self-published commentary, Nobel Prize-winning physicist | criticized the test and evaluation methods and argued that the results sho ... |
| William Sealy Gosset | ... ish literature, a derivation of the t-distribution was published in 1908 by | while he worked at the Guinness Brewery in Dublin. One version of the orig ... |
| Wernher von Braun | ... tee" included consultation from the ABMA's large booster program, headed by | . Von Braun's Group was referred to as the "Working Group on Vehicular Pro ... |
| Albert Einstein | ... tific exploration of the ultimate fate of the universe became possible with | 's 1916 theory of general relativity. General relativity can be employed t ... |
| Joan Roughgarden | Evolutionary biologist | argues that, in addition to male and female sexes (as defined by the produ ... |
| Nick Cave | ... elicity Urquhart and Kasey Chambers. Others influenced by the genre include | , Paul Kelly, The John Butler Trio and |
| Paul Ehrlich | ... idered one of the founders of microbiology, inspiring such major figures as | and Gerhard Domagk |
| David Hilbert | ... he development of the structure theory of commutative rings in the works of | , Emmy Noether, and Emil Artin |
| Herman Boerhaave | ... the 1773 discoverer of urea, he was not the first to do so. Dutch scientist | had discovered this chemical as early as 1727. Rouelle is known as "le cad ... |
| Aldous Huxley | In the 20th century, satire was used by authors such as | and George Orwell to make serious and even frightening commentaries on the ... |
| Jacob Viner | ... tilism was a form of rent-seeking has also seen criticism, as scholars such | in the 1930s point out that merchant mercantilists such as Mun understood ... |
| Arthur Rudolph | In 1958 AMBA's scientific and engineering staff, including Von Braun and | , were transferred to the newly created NASA, and the facilities on the so ... |
| Lee Teng-hui | ... Taiwan-born citizens into government services, Chiang Ching-kuo hand-picked | as vice-president of the Republic of China, first-in-the-line of successio ... |
| Sir William Hamilton | ... no difficulty in giving his Sovereignty to England; and I have lately, with | , got a Note that Malta should never be given to any Power without the con ... |
| Otto von Guericke | In 1663 the German physicist | created the first electric generator, which produced static electricity by ... |
| Plato | | believed in the pre-existence of the soul, which tied in with his innatism ... |
| David Marks | According to psychologist | in experiments conducted in the 1970s at the Stanford Research Institute, ... |
| Karl Barry Sharpless | ... s epoxidation, which is used for the stereoselective synthesis of epoxides. | was awarded the 2001 Nobel prize in Chemistry for this reaction |
| Thomas H. Jukes | ... ating a triplet coding, even though it is a five base physical interaction. | pointed out that the code constraints on the mRNA sequence required for th ... |
| Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī | ... d the development of algebra (Arabic: al-jabr) by the Persian mathematician | and other medieval Islamic mathematicians. Khwārizmī's "The Compendious Bo ... |
| Ultron | ... Marvel Comics Runaways, Victor Mancha, the technorganic android created by | , is shown as unable to process correctly paradoxes: as such, it's known t ... |
| Martin Pickford | ... ies of early hominid have been discovered in Kenya. The oldest was found by | in the year 2000 and is the 6 million years old Orrorin tugenensis, named ... |
| Robert Boyle | ... ion of an equation of state. In 1662, the noted Irish physicist and chemist | performed a series of experiments employing a J-shaped glass tube, which w ... |
| Linus Pauling | ... has a net negative sum. The initial theory of hydrogen bonding proposed by | suggested that the hydrogen bonds had a partial covalent nature. This rema ... |
| Miguel Ondetti | ... ity relationship required for inhibition of ACE was growing. David Cushman, | and colleagues used peptide analogues to study the structure of ACE, using ... |
| Meave Leakey | ... oldest fossil hominid in the world after Sahelanthropus tchadensis. In 1995 | named a new species of hominid Australopithecus anamensis following a seri ... |
| Leonardo | ... hat she thought of the voice, she replied 'Ah! It is a ruin, but then so is | 's Last Supper |
| Rudolf von Willemoes-Suhm | ... ille Thomson, John Murray, John Young Buchanan, Henry Nottidge Moseley, and | . The official expedition artist was John James Wild. As well as Nares and ... |
| Gene Amdahl | ... ipal design engineer was then-UCLA-faculty-member Lowell Amdahl, brother of | . The AN/UYK-1 was built by the Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation (later TRW) fo ... |
| Aulus Gellius | ... , Greek, and Latin languages were in contact with one another; according to | 17.17.1, Ennius referred to this heritage by saying he had "three hearts" ... |
| Pliny the Elder | ... C (of grief, according to Cicero; Tusculan Disputations 3.31). According to | the craftsmen continued to work on the tomb after the death of their patro ... |
| Indiana Jones | ... is James Bond days. Steven Spielberg and George Lucas wanted "the father of | " (although Connery is only 12 years older than Ford) to be Connery since ... |
| Lord Lothian | ... rt, son of Frederick and Nettie, served as personal assistant to Ambassador | and supervisor of American Relief to Great Britain through the British emb ... |
| Aristotle | ... f science and described an early scientific method of inquiry. He discusses | 's Posterior Analytics and significantly diverged from it on several point ... |
| Thomas Sowell | ... received favorable reviews from academics Gary Kleck, Milton Friedman, and | |
| Stuart Kauffman | Dartmouth alumni in academia include | and Jeffrey Weeks, both recipients of MacArthur Fellowships (commonly call ... |
| Éamon de Valera | ... h rule in Ireland and increased support for the republican government under | . The events of Bloody Sunday have survived in public memory. The Gaelic A ... |
| David Cushman | ... structure-activity relationship required for inhibition of ACE was growing. | , Miguel Ondetti and colleagues used peptide analogues to study the struct ... |
| George Bernard Shaw | ... ayers, a theater group for young people that performs uncut Shakespeare and | plays |
| Freud | ... hout awareness of the writings of Rank, Ludwig Binswanger was influenced by | , Edmund Husserl, Heidegger and Sartre. A later figure was Viktor Frankl, ... |
| William Charles Wells | ... appointment at the Crichton hospital his son, was educated at the Academy. | , predecessor to Charles Darwin on the theory of natural selection was ano ... |
| Claude Louis Berthollet | ... t Charles Tennant in about 1800, based on the discoveries of French chemist | , revolutionised the bleaching processes in the textile industry by dramat ... |
| Jacques Cousteau | ... ng, shipwreck and underwater archaeology books, beginning with the works of | |
| Carl Wilhelm Borchardt | The following proof relies on the work of | |
| Don Coppersmith | ... 3727 ) due to Vassilevska Williams. The original algorithm was presented by | and Shmuel Winograd in 1990, has an asymptotic complexity of O(n 2.376 ). ... |
| Aristotle | ... the exception of a few remarks by Xenophanes, Heraclitus, Herodotus, Plato, | , and Isocrates, we are mainly dependent on Diogenes Laërtius, Porphyry, a ... |
| Alan Turing | ... hers. Most influential among these was the definition of Turing machines by | in 1936, which turned out to be a very robust and flexible notion of compu ... |
| Ginger Rogers | ... reed made the decision to suspend her on July 18, 1948. She was replaced by | |
| Carol Channing | ... Past awardees are composers such as Stephen Sondheim and performers such as | . The 2010 award will go to |
| Charles Hard Townes | ... century science, including Stephen Hawking and many nobel laureates such as | |
| Olbers | Gauss' letters to | show that his praise for Germain was sincere. In the same 1807 letter, Sop ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... y (founded in 1854), was an American political party founded around 1791 by | and James Madison |
| Plato's | Platonic idealism usually refers to | theory of forms or doctrine of ideas |
| Jordin Kare | | has proposed a simpler, nearer term concept which has a rocket containing ... |
| Oliver Stone | ... sador for the ScreenSingapore 2011 film festival, joining American director | |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... n envelope of anti-government materials that included a bumper sticker with | slogan, "When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the ... |
| Arthur Berson | ... toa easterlies". It was observed again in 1908, by the German meteorologist | , who saw that winds blow from the west at altitude in tropical Africa fro ... |
| Drew McDermott | Steve Hanks and | argued, on the basis of their Yale shooting example, that this solution to ... |
| Ernst Chladni's | ... interest in a contest sponsored by the Paris Academy of Sciences concerning | experiments with vibrating metal plates. The object of the competition, as ... |
| Steven Pinker | ... tribution makes it impossible to hold others responsible for their actions. | 's view is that fear of determinism in the context of "genetics" and "evol ... |
| Benjamin Libet | ... making process at work. A seminal experiment in this field was conducted by | in the 1980s, in which he asked each subject to choose a random moment to ... |
| Ram Samudrala | ... nse, the concept of free music was codified in the Free Music Philosophy by | in early 1994. It was based on the idea of Free Software by Richard Stallm ... |
| Adolf Lieben | ... .D. in 1882, and returned to Vienna to work as an unpaid assistant in Prof. | 's laboratory, working with chemical separation methods for investigations ... |
| Aryabhata | ... Dharmakirti and Dignāga during the 1st millennium CE. In Indian astronomy, | 's Aryabhatiya (499 CE) proposed the Earth's rotation, while Nilakantha So ... |
| Henri Becquerel | | , while experimenting with fluorescence, accidentally found out that urani ... |
| Francis Fukuyama | ... oreign Affairs article titled "The Clash of Civilizations?", in response to | 's 1992 book, . Huntington later expanded his thesis in a 1996 book The Cl ... |
| Alfred Pringsheim | ... cident, in the late 1930s, a letter from her to Hitler prevented Hedwig and | (whose daughter Katia was married to Thomas Mann) from being arrested by t ... |
| Shen Kuo | ... uncing special times of the day. There was also the scientist and statesman | (1031–1095). Being the head official for the Bureau of Astronomy, Shen Kuo ... |
| Alexander Graham Bell | ... d on January 25, 1881, as the result of an agreement between Thomas Edison, | , the Oriental Bell Telephone Company of New York and the Anglo-Indian Tel ... |
| Raymond Reiter | ... default, sometimes called the commonsense law of inertia, was expressed by | in default logic |
| Ted Morton | ... Indeed, this approach has not been without its critics. Alberta politician | and political scientist Rainer Knopff have been very critical of this phen ... |
| Stephen Hawking | ... rship roster of the most respected names in 20th century science, including | and many nobel laureates such as Charles Hard Townes |
| Enrico Clementi | ... table shows atomic radii computed from theoretical models, as published by | and others in 1967. The values are in picometres (pm) |
| Robert Bunsen | ... in 1880, where he continued his studies in chemistry under the direction of | (inventor of the Bunsen burner). He received his Ph.D. in 1882, and return ... |
| Ibn Bajjah | The first planetary model without any epicycles was that of | (Avempace) in 12th century Andalusian Spain, but epicycles were not elimin ... |
| Alfred Weber | ... ive of a small group of professors, among whom were the anti-Nazi economist | and the philosopher Karl Jaspers. The surgeon Karl Heinrich Bauer was nomi ... |
| John Tradescant the elder | ... acres (170,000 m²), date from the early 17th century, and were laid out by | . Tradescant visited Europe and brought back trees and plants that had nev ... |
| Elaine Pagels | ... d by modern scholarship, but in the later case considered quite possible by | (1979), who called for Buddhist scholars to try to find parallels |
| Erik Sandewall | This solution was proposed by | , who also defined a formal language for the specification of dynamical do ... |
| Carl Friedrich Gauss' | Germain's interest in number theory was renewed when she read | monumental work Disquisitiones Arithmeticae. After three years of working ... |
| Averroes | ... de the virtuous non-Christian thinkers in his Divine Comedy such as Virgil, | , Homer, Horace, Ovid, Lucan, Socrates, Plato, and Saladin, Avicenna has b ... |
| Mircea Eliade | The religious historian | speaks of a desire to transcend old age and death and achieve a state of n ... |
| Jacques Lacan | ... ded a generation of film theorists with psychoanalytic potential, including | and Slavoj Žižek. Hitchcock again filmed extensively on location, this tim ... |
| Plato | ... that truth is an abstraction. In other words, we are urged to believe that | 's theory of ideas is an abstraction, divorced from the so-called external ... |
| Thomas Edison | ... "was established on January 25, 1881, as the result of an agreement between | , Alexander Graham Bell, the Oriental Bell Telephone Company of New York a ... |
| John Myhill | ... roblems solvable by Turing machines with specific bounded resources include | 's definition of linear bounded automata (Myhill 1960), Raymond Smullyan's ... |
| Darwin | ... fish precursors would have lived in shallow water for a long period, and by | , who predicted a gradual migration of the eye, mirroring the metamorphosi ... |
| Sir Isaac Newton | ... even teaching herself Latin and Greek so she could read works like those of | and Leonhard Euler. She also enjoyed Traité d'Arithmétique by Étienne Bézo ... |
| George Bernard Shaw's | Pretty Woman bears striking resemblances to Pygmalion myths: particularly | play of the same name, which also formed the basis for the Broadway musica ... |
| George E. Davis | ... mical Engineering as an academic subject in Britain, indeed the lectures by | in 1888 were highly influential in defining the discipline. Similarly in t ... |
| Henry Draper | ... aphic spectrogram of a star, Sirius and Capella. In 1872 American physician | , the son of John William Draper, recorded the first spectrogram of a star ... |
| Mikhail Bakhtin | The twentieth-century Russian literary theorist | characterised Hoffmann's works as Menippea, essentially satirical and self ... |
| George Gaylord Simpson | ... (Panthera onca augusta) were discovered in the cave. They were excavated by | of the American Museum |
| Cathy Gale | ... eed's most famous assistants were intelligent, stylish and assertive women: | (Honor Blackman), Emma Peel (Diana Rigg), and later Tara King (Linda Thors ... |
| Lewis Terman | ... ey where he grew up. His intellect was well-known ever since a young age as | , noted psychologist, prominent eugenicist, and inventor of the Stanford-B ... |
| Antoine Bussy | ... and in 1808 using electrolysis of a mixture of magnesia and mercuric oxide. | prepared it in coherent form in 1831. Davy's first suggestion for a name w ... |
| Vladimir Bekhterev | Early in the 20th century Russian neurologist | and Estonian neurosurgeon Ludvig Puusepp operated on three patients with m ... |
| David H. D. Warren | ... pe Roussel. The first implementations of Prolog were interpreters, however, | created the Warren Abstract Machine, an early and influential Prolog compi ... |
| Bronisław Malinowski | ... works in a society. The functionalist perspective, usually associated with | , maintains that all aspects of society are meaningful and interrelated. I ... |
| Eudoxus of Cnidus | ... irolamo Fracastoro, who used either 77 or 79 orbs in his system inspired by | . Copernicus in his works exaggerated the number of epicycles used in the ... |
| Jordin Kare | ... vert a beam of charged particles from a particle accelerator or plasma jet. | has proposed a variant to this whereby a "beam" of small laser accelerated ... |
| Arthur C. Clarke | In his 1962 book Profiles of the Future, | predicted that the construction of what H. G. Wells called the World Brain ... |
| Su Song | ... l hour, the device was also a striking clock. The famous clock tower of the | built by 1094 during the Song Dynasty would employ Yi Xing's escapement wi ... |
| Plato | ... . With the exception of a few remarks by Xenophanes, Heraclitus, Herodotus, | , Aristotle, and Isocrates, we are mainly dependent on Diogenes Laërtius, ... |
| Graham Wallas | ... vities, and turned our attention to the writings of men like H.G. Wells and | , wrenching us away from the Oscar Wildian dilettantism which had possesse ... |
| Plato | ... vine Comedy such as Virgil, Averroes, Homer, Horace, Ovid, Lucan, Socrates, | , and Saladin, Avicenna has been recognized by both East and West, as one ... |
| Aristotle | ... introduced much of Plato to the Western world, shaking the domination which | had come to exercise over Western European thought in the high and later m ... |
| Lewis Carroll | ... io series of six episodes (called "Fits" after the names of the sections of | 's nonsense poem "The Hunting of the Snark") was broadcast in 1978 on BBC ... |
| Margaret Lindsay Huggins | ... ry plate photography. It was first used by Sir William Huggins and his wife | , in 1876, in their work to record the spectra of astronomical objects. In ... |
| Vladimir Lenin | ... and the spurious “socialist” Mensheviks in the Petrograd Soviet. Guided by | 's leadership and his firm grasp of scientific Marxist theory, the Party l ... |
| W. S. Van Dyke | ... shiell Hammett's characters Nick and Nora Charles. The film was directed by | and also featured Elissa Landi, Joseph Calleia, Jessie Ralph, Alan Marshal ... |
| Ernesto Zedillo | In 1997, President | commemorated the 150th anniversary of the execution of the San Patricios a ... |
| Irène Joliot-Curie | ... , as she believed it to be the most electropositive cation of the elements. | , one of Perey's supervisors, opposed the name due to its connotation of c ... |
| Karl Joseph Eberth | In 1880 | described a bacillus that he suspected was the cause of typhoid. In 1884 p ... |
| Werner Arber | ... lileo Galilei as its president. The current president is the microbiologist | . The Academy is headquartered in the Casina Pio IV at the heart of the |
| J. E. Montucla's | ... nside. For entertainment she turned to her father's library. Here she found | L'Histoire des Mathématiques, and his story of the death of Archimedes int ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... osition to them resulted in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolves, authored by | and James Madison, which were foundational to the states rights theory tha ... |
| Patrick J. Hayes | ... pecifying which conditions are not affected by an action. John McCarthy and | defined this problem in their 1969 article, Some Philosophical Problems fr ... |
| Nikola Tesla | ... al or real—including scientists such as Thomas Edison, Charles Steinmetz or | —were popularly conceived of as having wizard-like powers |
| Alexander Hamilton | ... to contest elections and oppose the programs of Secretary for the Treasury | . Jefferson needed to have a nationwide party to counteract the Federalist ... |
| Heinrich Schliemann | ... and the great "Treasury of Atreus" had borne silent witness for ages before | 's time; but they were supposed only to speak to the Homeric, or, at farth ... |
| Edward Burnett Tylor | ... en to good people. Finally the intellectualist perspective, associated with | and Sir James Frazer, regard magic as logical, but based on a flawed under ... |
| Ferdinand von Richthofen | ... " and "Seidenstraßen"- 'the Silk Road(s)' or 'Silk Route(s)' were coined by | , who made seven expeditions to China from 1868 to 1872. Some scholars pre ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... e refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants" (from | ). He also carried an envelope of anti-government materials that included ... |
| Rainer Knopff | ... without its critics. Alberta politician Ted Morton and political scientist | have been very critical of this phenomenon. Although they feel the basis f ... |
| Benjamin Franklin | Benjamin Franklin Bache, the grandson of | , was editor of the Aurora, a Republican newspaper. Bache had accused Geor ... |
| Georg Theodor August Gaffky | ... a bacillus that he suspected was the cause of typhoid. In 1884 pathologist | (1850–1918) confirmed Eberth's findings, and the organism was given names ... |
| Ragnar Granit | George Wald, Haldan Keffer Hartline and | won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their scientific re ... |
| Stuart Thomas Butler | ... stratospheric ozone. This was rectified in 1963 by the Australian physicist | and his student K.A. Small who showed that stratospheric ozone absorbs an ... |
| Barry Fell | ... depicted are accurate, or if they meant anything at all, remains disputed. | , the author of the controversial books America B.C. and Saga America, was ... |
| Weston La Barre | It was reported by American anthropologist | that Manchu mothers used to show affection for their children by performin ... |
| Haskell Curry | ... us. One well-known fixed-point combinator in the untyped lambda calculus is | 's Y = λf·(λx·f (x x)) (λx·f (x x)). The name of this combinator is someti ... |
| Stephen Cook | ... speed-up theorem. The field really began to flourish when the US researcher | and, working independently, Leonid Levin in the USSR, proved that there ex ... |
| Anna May Wong | Among the other passengers are fellow coaster Hui Fei ( | ), zealous missionary Mr. Carmichael (Lawrence Grant), inveterate gambler ... |
| Hermann von Helmholtz | ... itation. In time, this relationship became known as Coulomb's law. By 1862, | had described a ray of light as the "quickest of all the messengers". In 1 ... |
| Dick Powell | ... estern anthology television series called Frontier Justice, a production of | 's Four Star Television. He was offered the part of Dr. Kildare in an NBC ... |
| Anders Celsius | In the 18th century, | performed his research there and built the first observatory proper in 174 ... |
| Haldan Keffer Hartline | George Wald, | and Ragnar Granit won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for t ... |
| Robert Kowalski | ... was created around 1972 by Alain Colmerauer with Philippe Roussel, based on | 's procedural interpretation of Horn clauses. It was motivated in part by ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | The presidents selected by the party were | (1801–1809), James Madison (1809–1817), and James Monroe (1817–1825). Afte ... |
| Aldous Huxley | ... ters with Catholicism. Another author Merton began reading at this time was | , whose book Ends and Means introduced Merton to mysticism. In August of t ... |
| Alexander Hamilton | ... eneficiary of the rebellion due to its sheltering of the rebel ringleaders. | broke from other New Yorkers, including major landowners with claims on Ve ... |
| Thomas Edison | ... ters of electricity, whether fictional or real—including scientists such as | , Charles Steinmetz or Nikola Tesla—were popularly conceived of as having ... |
| Doris Day | ... did a critically well received sendup of her screen image in a cameo in the | -Jack Carson musical, It's a Great Feeling (1949). Other movie roles of th ... |
| Arthur Pigou | ... ly funded only by two Dons at the university – his father and the economist | . In 1909 Keynes published his first professional economics article in the ... |
| Anders Jonas Ångström | In the 19th century | was keeper of the observatory and conducted his experiments in astronomy, ... |
| Marguerite Perey | Eka-caesium was discovered in 1939 by | of the Curie Institute in Paris, France when she purified a sample of acti ... |
| Steven Brams | ... arbons are fossil fuels. His recent work also includes a collaboration with | studying approval voting. Hershbach's teaching ranges ranges from graduate ... |
| Stephen Jay Gould | ... extinction of the dinosaurs under which to accumulate relevant differences. | describes many of the same examples as parallel evolution starting from th ... |
| Robert Kowalski | ... as popular in North America in the late 1960s and early 1970s. According to | , the first Prolog system was developed in 1972 by Alain Colmerauer and Ph ... |
| Tom Swift | ... rt featured large in adventure stories such as those of Jules Verne and the | books. The masters of electricity, whether fictional or real—including sci ... |
| Harry Johnson | The economist | wrote that the optimism imparted by Keynes's early life is key to understa ... |
| Joan Crawford | ... ording of the song was reused for Torch Song for a musical number featuring | . The retrospective That's Entertainment! III released the Charisse versio ... |
| Albert Einstein | ... described a ray of light as the "quickest of all the messengers". In 1905, | proposed the existence of a light-particle in answer to the question: "wha ... |
| Baron de Prony | ... good things to say relating to her work in mathematics. Osen relates that “ | called her the Hypatia of the nineteenth century,” and “J.J Biot wrote, in ... |
| Henry Duncan | A number of well-known people were educated at Dumfries Academy, among them | , founder of the world's first commercial savings bank, Sir James Anderson ... |
| George Bernard Shaw | ... "refuses to play the game" of other dramatists of the period, for instance | , who used their characters to draw audiences to grander ideals |
| Romana | ... married Lalla Ward who had co-starred in Doctor Who (playing his companion | ) with him for two years. However, the marriage lasted only 16 months |
| Milton Friedman | David Friedman is the son of economists Rose and | . His son, Patri Friedman, has also written about libertarian theory and m ... |
| Francis Hutcheson | ... d that Jefferson was influenced by the Scottish Enlightenment, particularly | , rather than Locke, an interpretation that has been strongly criticized |
| Hubert Harrison | Some of Razaf's early poems were published in 1917-18 in the | -edited Voice, the first newspaper of the "New Negro Movement". Razaf coll ... |
| Hans Bethe | ... owledged by all. He influenced many physicists who worked with him, such as | , who spent two semesters working with Fermi in the early 1930s. From the ... |
| Tatyana Elizarenkova | ... ally best-informed to date, and a Russian translation based on Geldner's by | was published by Nauka 1989–199 |
| Joseph Campbell | ... Metrical Dindsenchas in which the Dagda fights a giant octopus. Mythologist | also makes parallels to the slaying of Leviathan by YHWH, about which YHWH ... |
| Leonid Levin | ... to flourish when the US researcher Stephen Cook and, working independently, | in the USSR, proved that there exist practically relevant problems that ar ... |
| John McCarthy | ... thout explicitly specifying which conditions are not affected by an action. | and Patrick J. Hayes defined this problem in their 1969 article, Some Phil ... |
| Alain Colmerauer | ... iation for (French for programming in logic). It was created around 1972 by | with Philippe Roussel, based on Robert Kowalski's procedural interpretatio ... |
| Boris Trakhtenbrot | ... as Hisao Yamada's paper on real-time computations (1962). Somewhat earlier, | (1956), a pioneer in the field from the USSR, studied another specific com ... |
| Marguerite Perey | ... inner and Hulubei's mentor, endorsed moldavium as the true eka-caesium over | 's recently discovered francium. Perey, however, continuously criticized H ... |
| I. A. Richards | ... dered to have magical power. Magical language, according to C. K. Ogden and | 's (1923) categories of speech, is distinct from scientific language becau ... |
| Gilbert N. Lewis | ... ly, in 1926, one year before the theory of quantum mechanics was published, | introduced the term "photon", which soon became the name for Einstein’s li ... |
| Knut Ångström | ... conducted his experiments in astronomy, physics and optics there. His son, | , also conducted research on solar radiation at the observatory |
| Richard Stallman | ... y Ram Samudrala in early 1994. It was based on the idea of Free Software by | and coincided with nascent open art and open information movements. Up to ... |
| Eugenio Espejo | ... bamba in 1707, and the printer, independence precursor, and medical pioneer | , born in 1747 in Quito |
| Ibn al-Nafis | ... nd Hippocrates as transmitted through Galen). Along with Rhazes, Abulcasis, | , and al-Ibadi, Ibn Sīnā is considered an important compiler of early Musl ... |
| Galileo Galilei | ... een raging for at least 340 years, having first been observed by astronomer | . Neptune also had its own lesser known Great Dark Spot |
| Jan Jesenius | ... st important rectors of Czech Universities were reformer Jan Hus, physician | and representative of Enlightenment Josef Vratislav Monse. The first femal ... |
| John Lubbock | In his highly influential Pre-historic Times, | described burnt bones indicating the practice of child sacrifice in pagan ... |
| Niels Bohr | ... e summer of 1913, this value was naturally obtained by the Danish physicist | as a consequence of his atom model, and also published independently by Pr ... |
| Dick Powell | ... hester Morris, Jean Muir, George Murphy, Erin O'Brien-Moore, Irving Pichel, | , Edward G. Robinson, Edwin Stanley, Gloria Stuart, Lyle Talbot, Franchot ... |
| Val Kilmer | ... ole as Harvey Keitel's estranged daughter in Wayne Wang's Smoke and also as | 's wife in Michael Mann's Heat. That same year she also played the role of ... |
| Pedro Vicente Maldonado | ... notable icons in Ecuadorian sciences are the mathematician and cartographer | , born in Riobamba in 1707, and the printer, independence precursor, and m ... |
| Stephen Hawking | ... tion of particles, regardless of whether or not free will exists. Physicist | describes such ideas in his 2010 book The Grand Design. According to Hawki ... |
| Zhang Heng | ... liptical ring by 84 CE. With the famous statesman, astronomer, and inventor | (张衡, 78-139 CE), the sphere was totally complete in 125 CE, with horizon a ... |
| Raymond Smullyan | ... include John Myhill's definition of linear bounded automata (Myhill 1960), | 's study of rudimentary sets (1961), as well as Hisao Yamada's paper on re ... |
| Neil Christie | ... on the site of the altar dedicated to Saint John the Baptist. Archaeologist | notes that it was common in such hagiographies for the protagonist to enco ... |
| Volker Strassen | ... , more efficient algorithms exist, such as Strassen's algorithm, devised by | in 1969 and often referred to as "fast matrix multiplication". It is based ... |
| Edgar Bright Wilson | ... in chemical physics in 1958 from Harvard University under the direction of | . After graduation, Herschbach joined the University of California at Berk ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | | , who was serving as ambassador to France at the time, refused to be alarm ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | ... influenced the Inklings, an Oxford group of Christian writers that included | and C. S. Lewis) and Richard Tarnas |
| Li Chunfeng | ... ecliptic ring could be pegged on to the equator at any point desired. Then | (李淳風) of the Tang dynasty created one in 633 CE with three spherical layer ... |
| Terry Winograd | ... e World Wide Web, understanding its link structure as a huge His supervisor | encouraged him to pursue this idea, which Page later recalled as "the best ... |
| Wolfgang Pauli | ... ependently by Procopiu using directly Max Planck's quantum theory. In 1920, | gave the Bohr magneton its name in an article where he contrasted it with ... |
| Mary Pickford | ... ect acting style, making for more subtlety of expression. Actresses such as | in all her films, Eleonora Duse in the Italian film Cenere (1916), Janet G ... |
| Georg August Goldfuss | The natural history museum was opened in 1820 by | . It was the first public museum in the Rhineland. In 1882 it was split in ... |
| Ida Noddack | ... split a heavier atom into two light element fragments. However, the chemist | had criticised Fermi's work and had suggested that some of his experiments ... |
| Samuel P. Huntington | The Clash of Civilizations is a theory, proposed by political scientist | , that people's cultural and religious identities will be the primary sour ... |
| Temperance Brennan | ... athy Reichs. This mimics Reichs' own real-life second career of writing the | series of novels and working as executive producer of the TV show, all whi ... |
| Erwin Schrödinger | ... ly compatibilistic (deterministic) free will is possible based on the data. | , a nobel laureate in physics and one of the founders of quantum mechanics ... |
| Manuel Blum | In 1967, | developed an axiomatic complexity theory based on his axioms and proved an ... |
| Ronald Fisher | Along with Leonard Tippett and | , he pioneered the mathematical field of extreme value theory. The Gumbel ... |
| Kathy Reichs | ... spends much of her free time writing novels about a forensic anthropologist | . This mimics Reichs' own real-life second career of writing the Temperanc ... |
| Stephen Harper | The Liberals were facing a united Conservative Party led by | , while the Bloc Québécois and NDP were also buoyed by the Sponsorship Sca ... |
| Denis Poisson | ... the invention of a new branch of analysis deterred all but two contestants, | and Germain. Then Poisson was elected to the Academy, thus becoming a judg ... |
| Richard Dawkins | ... e striking example of similar placental and marsupial forms is described by | in The Blind Watchmaker as a case of convergent evolution, because mammals ... |
| Daniel Dennett | | uses the case of the Three Mile Island accident as an example of the diffi ... |
| Heraclitus | ... t one and the same time. With the exception of a few remarks by Xenophanes, | , Herodotus, Plato, Aristotle, and Isocrates, we are mainly dependent on D ... |
| Yuan T. Lee | ... bel Prize, was his collaboration on crossed molecular beam experiments with | . Crossing collimated beams of gas-phase reactants allows partitioning of ... |
| Ernest Rutherford | ... aper, with some unknown radiation that could not be turned off like X-rays. | continued these experiments and discovered two different kinds of radiatio ... |
| Dicaearchus | ... rk on the Pythagoreans, which unfortunately has not survived. His disciples | , Aristoxenus, and Heraclides Ponticus had written on the same subject. Th ... |
| Stephen Hawking | ... ongside Spencer Brown as Ford Prefect, Nigel Planer as the voice of Marvin, | as the voice of Deep Thought, Patrick Moore as the voice of the Guide, Rog ... |
| Wolfgang Krätschmer | ... m-sized samples of fullerene powder using the techniques of Donald Huffman, | and Konstantinos Fostiropoulos. Fullerene purification remains a challenge ... |
| Aristotle | In astronomy, he criticized | 's view of the stars receiving their light from the Sun. Ibn Sīnā stated t ... |
| Caitlín R. Kiernan | ... ttle, Joe R. Lansdale, Alan Moore, Junji Ito, F. Paul Wilson, Brian Lumley, | , and Neil Gaiman, have cited Lovecraft as one of their primary influences ... |
| Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo | ... ich the AFP played a key role. The revolution installed then Vice-President | into the presidency |
| Albert Einstein | ... othic minster (Ulm Minster, German: Ulmer Münster) and as the birthplace of | |
| Jean Baptiste Perrin | ... atus and methods were too accurate to make such a mistake. Because of this, | , Nobel Prize winner and Hulubei's mentor, endorsed moldavium as the true ... |
| Nicander | ... ecially attracted him. He published editions of Aelian, De natura animalium | ;, Alexipharmaca and Theriaca; the Scriptores rei rusticae; Aristotle, His ... |
| Aristotle | ... nimalium; Nicander, Alexipharmaca and Theriaca; the Scriptores rei rusticae | ;, Historia animalium and Politica; Epicurus, Physica and Meteorologica; T ... |
| Vladimir Lenin | ... ssian Germans, along with all other farms and businesses, when Stalin ended | 's New Economic Policy in 1929 and began the forced collectivization of ag ... |
| Ştefan Procopiu | ... Conference in November that year, Paul Langevin obtained a submultiple. The | obtained for the first time its value in 1911; the value is referred to as ... |
| Richard Feynman | ... s Plenty of Room at the Bottom is the title of a lecture given by physicist | at an American Physical Society meeting at Caltech on December 29, 1959. F ... |
| Samuel Johnson | ... to the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, and became acquainted with | , Garrick and others of that society |
| Jacob Grimm | ... r fairy tales. This was notably attempted by the Brothers Grimm, especially | in his Teutonic Mythology, and Elias Lönnrot with the compilation of the K ... |
| Archimedes | ... . E. Montucla's L'Histoire des Mathématiques, and his story of the death of | intrigued her |
| Wolfgang Pauli | ... e, then brand new) with the inclusion of the neutrino postulated in 1930 by | , and the discovery of slow neutrons, which was to prove pivotal for the w ... |
| Stephanus of Byzantium | ... 350 BCE. (cf. Phlegon, quoted in the 5th century geographical dictionary of | , under 'Gergis'). Other places claimed to have been her home. The sibylli ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... other cities during the colonial era. Ben Franklin, George Washington, and | were known to have regularly eaten and served ice cream. First Lady Dolley ... |
| August Breithaupt | The mineral was first discovered in Saxony by | in 1817, and named by him from the Greek amblus, blunt, and gouia, angle, ... |
| Leonhard Euler | ... Latin and Greek so she could read works like those of Sir Isaac Newton and | . She also enjoyed Traité d'Arithmétique by Étienne Bézout and Le Calcul D ... |
| Gan De | ... of the armillary sphere in China goes back to the astronomers Shi Shen and | in the 4th century BCE, as they were equipped with a primitive single-ring ... |
| Gustave Gilbert | ... er Rudolf Hess. Göring and the others were interviewed in prison by Captain | , a German-speaking American intelligence officer and psychologist. Gilber ... |
| Euler | ... stated (without proof) Fermat's little theorem (later proved by Leibniz and | ). A special case of Fermat's theorem may have been known much earlier by ... |
| Pier Paolo Pasolini | ... talian writers and intellectuals, including Eugenio Montale, Italo Calvino, | , Oriana Fallaci and Indro Montanelli. The "third page" (a page once entir ... |
| Castor of Rhodes | ... fter him comes the Dorian usurper Phalces. Pausanias shares his source with | , who used the king-list in compiling tables of history; the common source ... |
| Joseph Proust | Berthollet was engaged in a long-term battle with another French chemist | on the validity of the law of definite proportions. While Proust believed ... |
| Marcel Mauss | In A General Theory of Magic, | classifies magic as a social phenomenon, akin to religion and science, but ... |
| Otto Jahn | ... His tenure was from 1819 until his retirement in 1854. He was succeeded by | and Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl, who shared the directorship. From 1870 to 1 ... |
| William Luther Pierce | ... ocks at the quarry, books on bomb-making, a copy of Hunter (a 1989 novel by | , the founder and chairman of the white nationalist National Alliance) and ... |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | ... es who argued against his 'perfection.' Germans like Friedrich Schiller and | dismissed Racine as höfisches Drama, or "courtly drama" too restricted by ... |
| Giovanni Schiaparelli | This parallel was noted by | . Pertinent to the Copernican Revolution debate of "saving the phenomena" ... |
| José Gabriel Funes | ... My Brother", granted to L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, Father | , director of the Vatican Observatory, stated: "In my opinion this possibi ... |
| John Cockcroft | ... in Manchester. Famous alumni include Nobel Laureate in nuclear physics Sir | , aeroplane pioneer Sir Arthur Whitten Brown, and designer of the Lancaste ... |
| Eileen Barker | According to | 's book An Introduction to New Religious Movements, there is no evidence o ... |
| Marcus Elieser Bloch | In 1801 he corrected and expanded re-published | 's Systema Ichthyologiae iconibus cx illustratum, a famous catalog of fish ... |
| Elias Lönnrot | ... y the Brothers Grimm, especially Jacob Grimm in his Teutonic Mythology, and | with the compilation of the Kalevala. The work of the Brothers Grimm influ ... |
| Lewis Fry Richardson | ... famous academics include mathematicians Louis Joel Mordell, Hanna Neumann, | and Robin Bullough, and the physicist Henry Lipson |
| Ettore Majorana | ... tecorvo, Franco Rasetti and Emilio Segrè. For the theoretical studies only, | also took part in what was soon nicknamed "the Via Panisperna boys" (after ... |
| Luigi Galvani | ... e bend the laws of nature. This attitude began with the 1771 experiments of | in which the legs of dead frogs were shown to twitch on application of ani ... |
| Richard Gans | ... ratio of electron kinetic energy to orbital frequency should be equal to h, | computed a value that was twice as large as the Bohr magneton in September ... |
| Malcolm Fraser | ... onnor and Deputy Prime Minister, Jim Cairns. The Liberal Opposition Leader, | , decided to use the Senate to block the government's budget bills, thus f ... |
| August Krogh | ... arch Council fellowship that took him to Copenhagen, Denmark to study under | at the Zoophysiological Laboratory for two years. During his studies with ... |
| Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz | ... o 1889 Reinhard Kekulé von Stradonitz, nephew of the famous organic chemist | , was the director. In 1872 the museum moved to a new building that was fo ... |
| Ptolemy | ... f the ecliptic. Hipparchus probably used an armillary sphere of four rings. | describes his instrument in the Syntaxis (book v. chap. i). It consisted o ... |
| Robin Bullough | ... mathematicians Louis Joel Mordell, Hanna Neumann, Lewis Fry Richardson and | , and the physicist Henry Lipson |
| Pythagoras | ... known if Plato's ideas of idealism have some earlier origin, but Plato held | in high regard, and Pythagoras as well as his followers in the movement kn ... |
| Calvert Watkins | ... en seen as a prototype of the battle of Zeus and Typhon. Walter Burkert and | each note the close agreements. Watkins' How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of ... |
| Henry Sidgwick | ... lves lead to certain outcomes. One classic philosopher to take this view is | , in his main work |
| Via Panisperna boys | ... tudies only, Ettore Majorana also took part in what was soon nicknamed "the | " (after the name of the road in which the Institute had its labs) |
| Freud | ... as they appeared in Constance Garnett's translations. Also the influence of | would be important on Strachey's later works, most notably on Elizabeth an ... |
| James R. Heath | ... ore carbon atoms. In 1985, Harold Kroto (then of the University of Sussex), | , Sean O'Brien, Robert Curl and Richard Smalley, from Rice University, dis ... |
| Yuan T. Lee | ... t Harvard University. He won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with | and John C. Polanyi "for their contributions concerning the dynamics of ch ... |
| Pliny the Elder | ... yrus. The extraction of starch is first described in the Natural History of | around AD 77-79. Romans used it also in cosmetic creams, to powder the hai ... |
| James Callaghan | ... e of great importance. The censure motion by which the Labour Government of | was ejected had its origin in an early day motion (no. 351 of 1978–79), pu ... |
| Ptolemy | Soon after, he wrote the Compendium of the Almagest, a commentary on | 's Almagest. Avicenna concluded that Venus is closer to the Earth than the ... |
| Franco Rasetti | ... ich soon was joined by notable minds like Edoardo Amaldi, Bruno Pontecorvo, | and Emilio Segrè. For the theoretical studies only, Ettore Majorana also t ... |
| Paul Langevin | ... on in September 1911. At the First Solvay Conference in November that year, | obtained a submultiple. The Ştefan Procopiu obtained for the first time it ... |
| Hesychius | ... nyi (and Robert Graves) theorizes that Ariadne (whose name they derive from | ' listing of Άδνον, a Cretan-Greek form for arihagne, "utterly pure") was ... |
| Anna May Wong | ... ef von Sternberg. The pre-Code picture stars Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, | , and Warner Oland. It was written by Jules Furthman, based on a story by ... |
| Al-Mawardi | The 11th century Sunni jurist | wrote |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... in an early day motion (no. 351 of 1978–79), put down on March 22, 1979, by | |
| Robert Curl | ... old Kroto (then of the University of Sussex), James R. Heath, Sean O'Brien, | and Richard Smalley, from Rice University, discovered C 60 , and shortly t ... |
| Hanna Neumann | ... Chadwick, while famous academics include mathematicians Louis Joel Mordell, | , Lewis Fry Richardson and Robin Bullough, and the physicist Henry Lipson |
| Jacques Lacan | ... y, but Raymond Queneau, Georges Bataille, Louis Althusser, André Breton and | . A selection from Heidegger's Being and Time was published in French in 1 ... |
| Yvette Cauchois | In 1936, Romanian physicist Horia Hulubei and his French colleague | also analyzed pollucite, this time using their high-resolution X-ray appar ... |
| Shi Shen | ... t development of the armillary sphere in China goes back to the astronomers | and Gan De in the 4th century BCE, as they were equipped with a primitive ... |
| Antoine Lavoisier | Berthollet, along with | and others, devised a chemical nomenclature, or a system of names, which s ... |
| Albertus Magnus | ... onsidered to be magicians in popular legend, notably Gerbert d'Aurillac and | : both men were active in the scientific research of their day as well as ... |
| Alan Turing | ... ombinator is the Turing fixed-point combinator (named after its discoverer, | ) |
| Richard Smalley | ... of the University of Sussex), James R. Heath, Sean O'Brien, Robert Curl and | , from Rice University, discovered C 60 , and shortly thereafter came to d ... |
| Pierre Weiss | The idea of elementary magnets is due to Walter Ritz (1907) and | . Already before the Rutherford model of atomic structure, several theoris ... |
| Pierre Deligne | ... w "mainstream-for-Princeton"; but this assimilation (through David Mumford, | and others) hardly includes all of the content |
| Horia Hulubei | In 1936, Romanian physicist | and his French colleague Yvette Cauchois also analyzed pollucite, this tim ... |
| Witelo | ... Western Europe where they were studied by scholars such as Roger Bacon and | |
| Subhash Kak | ... lism, addressed for example by K. D. Sethna and in Shrikant G. Talageri's . | (1994) claimed that there is an "astronomical code" in the organization of ... |
| Jacques Curie | ... ezein (πιέζειν), meaning to press, and was discovered in 1880 by Pierre and | . The effect is reciprocal, and when a piezoelectric material is subjected ... |
| Francis Fukuyama | ... eological alternative for nations in the post-Cold War world. Specifically, | argued that the world had reached the 'end of history' in a Hegelian sense |
| Bruno Pontecorvo | ... cting his team, which soon was joined by notable minds like Edoardo Amaldi, | , Franco Rasetti and Emilio Segrè. For the theoretical studies only, Ettor ... |
| Manmohan Singh | ... initiated by the previous Congress Government under P. V. Narasimha Rao and | , pushed through major privatizations of big government corporations, the ... |
| Karl Marx | | , in Das Kapital, writes |
| Ian Hancock | ... omanis, it is impossible to accurately assess the actual number of victims. | , director of the Program of Romani Studies at the University of Texas at ... |
| Arthur C. Clarke | ... e other space advocates such as actor Tom Hanks and author and futurist Sir | . In a 2007 interview with GQ magazine, Bass stated that he "absolutely" s ... |
| G. H. Hardy | ... statement of this is found in an essay written by the British mathematician | in defense of pure mathematics |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | ... "Runes") are the letters of a semi-artificial script which was invented by | for the constructed languages he devised and used in his works. The initia ... |
| Orso Mario Corbino | ... in atomic physics in Italy) which he won in a competition held by Professor | , director of the Institute of Physics. Corbino helped Fermi in selecting ... |
| Shmuel Winograd | ... evska Williams. The original algorithm was presented by Don Coppersmith and | in 1990, has an asymptotic complexity of O(n 2.376 ). This algorithm, and ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... iver. Chilled pawpaw fruit was a favorite dessert of George Washington, and | planted it at his home in Virginia, Monticello. The Lewis and Clark Expedi ... |
| Hirohito | ... 4, this time over the attempt by Namba Daisuke to assassinate Prince Regent | on 27 December 1923 (the Toranomon Incident) |
| Ptolemy | ... sources on the Seres (Greek and Roman name of China) (essentially Pliny and | ) gives the following account |
| Karl Marx | In the most influential of all socialist theories, | and Friedrich Engels believed the consciousness of those who earn a wage o ... |
| William Rowan Hamilton | ... salon included Sheridan le Fanu, Charles Lever, George Petrie, Isaac Butt, | and Samuel Ferguson |
| Henry Lipson | ... , Hanna Neumann, Lewis Fry Richardson and Robin Bullough, and the physicist | |
| Adrien-Marie Legendre | Germain first became interested in number theory in 1798 when | published Essai sur la théorie des nombres. After studying the work, she o ... |
| F. Passow | ... independent work of the kind since Stephanus's Thesaurus, and the basis of | 's and all succeeding Greek lexicons (including, therefore, the contempora ... |
| Alcuin | ... s Eadbald's actions as a repudiation of his father's pro-Frankish policies. | , a later medieval writer, wrote that Laurence was "censured by apostolic ... |
| Che Guevara | ... guerilla warfare that Massoud had learned from the works of Mao Zedong and | . His forces were considered the most effective of all the various Afghan ... |
| Tim Macartney-Snape | In 1990 Australian | became the first person to climb from sea level to the summit |
| Gough Whitlam | ... t Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG). He had asked | for this appointment shortly after becoming Governor-General in 1974, but ... |
| Edoardo Amaldi | ... ed Fermi in selecting his team, which soon was joined by notable minds like | , Bruno Pontecorvo, Franco Rasetti and Emilio Segrè. For the theoretical s ... |
| Aristotle | ... es, which was a significant improvement over the two-part classification of | (into orycta and metals) and three-part classification of Galen (into terr ... |
| Jack Layton | ... a promise he later reneged upon when elected as Prime Minister. NDP leader | followed suit soon after with a similar guarantee, and later Martin promis ... |
| Cathy Gale | ... e show into the format it is most remembered for. Honor Blackman played Dr. | , a self-assured, quick-witted anthropologist who was skilled in judo and ... |
| Sam Beckett | ... he series was created by Donald Bellisario, and starred Scott Bakula as Dr. | , a physicist from six years in the future (during the series' original ru ... |
| Hipparchus | ... ably used a solstitial armilla for measuring the obliquity of the ecliptic. | probably used an armillary sphere of four rings. Ptolemy describes his ins ... |
| Friedrich Engels | In the most influential of all socialist theories, Karl Marx and | believed the consciousness of those who earn a wage or salary (the "workin ... |
| James George Frazer | ... t in early records such as the Egyptian pyramid texts and the Indian Vedas. | asserted that magical observations are the result of an internal dysfuncti ... |
| Sergey Brin | ... 1973) is an American computer scientist and internet entrepreneur who, with | , is best known as the co-founder of Google. On April 4, 2011, he took on ... |
| Thomas Young | ... 00 books and manuscripts, a figure reduced to about 7,000 in seven years by | |
| Luca Pacioli | ... ing year, and therefore enjoy general recognition as a double-entry system. | 's "Summa de Arithmetica, Geometria, Proportioni et Proportionalità" (Lati ... |
| Paul Edmund Strzelecki | ... hest of all Australian mountains. It was named by the Polish explorer Count | in 1840, in honour of the Polish national hero and hero of the American Re ... |
| Eratosthenes | The Greek astronomer Hipparchus (c. 190 – c. 120 BCE) credited | (276 –194 BCE) as the inventor of the armillary sphere. The name of this d ... |
| Marlon Brando | ... 96, he appeared in a largely unknown film, Dead Girl, and starred alongside | in the poorly received The Island of Dr Moreau. That year, Kilmer starred ... |
| Léon Walras | ... ms of taxation that exist in capitalist systems. The neoclassical economist | believed that a socialist economy based on state ownership of land and nat ... |
| John William Draper | The story begins in late April 1839, as | had just photographed the Moon and Charles Dickens was serializing Oliver ... |
| Augustin-Jean Fresnel | The Fresnel equations (or Fresnel conditions), deduced by | , describe the behaviour of light when moving between media of differing r ... |
| Joseph Louis Lagrange | ... rvations." Germain obtained the lecture notes and began sending her work to | , a faculty member. She used the name M. LeBlanc, “fearing,” as she later ... |
| Fred Allison | In 1930, | of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute claimed to have discovered element 87 ... |
| Georg Loeschcke | ... chinkel and Hermann Friedrich Waesemann. Other directors of the museum were | (from 1889 to 1912), Franz Winter (from 1912 to 1929), Richard Delbrueck ( ... |
| Paul Ehrenfest | ... of Göttingen with Max Born, and then stayed for a few months in Leiden with | . From January 1925 to the autumn of 1926, he stayed at the University of ... |
| Omar Khayyám | ... owne claims that the following Persian verses are incorrectly attributed to | , and were originally written by Ibn Sīnā |
| Sigmund Freud | Others, such as N. W. Thomas and | have rejected this explanation. Freud explains that "the associated theory ... |
| John Arbuthnot | ... e Scriblerus Club, which included Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, John Gay, | , Robert Harley, Thomas Parnell, and Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbro ... |
| J. Robert Oppenheimer | ... rough its own investigations that one of the leading scientists on the AEC, | , had urged that the H-bomb work be delayed; Eisenhower removed him from t ... |
| David Mumford | ... his work is now "mainstream-for-Princeton"; but this assimilation (through | , Pierre Deligne and others) hardly includes all of the content |
| Condoleezza Rice | ... dictatorship in the heart of Europe" by the former U.S. Secretary of State | . He and other Belarusian officials are also subject of the s imposed by t ... |
| Daniel Wegner | ... ons to the free will debate have come primarily through social psychologist | 's work on conscious will. In his book, The Illusion of Conscious Will Weg ... |
| Eiji Osawa | ... as a possible topological structure. The existence of C 60 was predicted by | of Toyohashi University of Technology in 1970. He noticed that the structu ... |
| Vojtěch Šafařík | ... impricht, Rudolph Fittig, Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, Albert Niemann, and | |
| Abū Alī ibn Sīnā | ... in: Sufficientia) is a scientific and philosophical encyclopedia written by | (Avicenna) from Asfahana, near Bukhara in Greater Persia. Despite its Engl ... |
| Étienne Bézout | ... Isaac Newton and Leonhard Euler. She also enjoyed Traité d'Arithmétique by | and Le Calcul Différential by Jacques Antoine-Joseph Cousin. Later, Cousin ... |
| Charles Coulomb | ... essenger particles dates back to the 18th century when the French physicist | showed that the electrostatic force between electrically charged objects f ... |
| Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe | ... s. Among them were Georg Ludwig Carius, Heinrich Limpricht, Rudolph Fittig, | , Albert Niemann, and Vojtěch Šafařík |
| Beatrix Potter | In 1902 | published The Tale of Peter Rabbit, that follows Peter Rabbit, a mischievo ... |
| Kurt Tank | ... als, namely bombers and transport aircraft, but mid-way through the program | suggested it for use in the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighter project. Radial engi ... |
| Jens Stoltenberg | ... . The election result allowed them to unseat the Labour Party government of | and replace it with a three-party coalition led by Christian Democrat Kjel ... |
| Gavin de Beer | ... biology ('evo-devo') played little part in the synthesis, but an account of | 's work by Stephen J. Gould suggests he may be an exception |
| Stéphane Dion | ... tien (himself a Quebecer who represented a strongly nationalist riding) and | , a Quebec minister in Chrétien's cabinet, to codify the Supreme Court of ... |
| Thor Heyerdahl | ... mid-1980s, the Maldivian government allowed the popular Norwegian explorer | , to excavate ancient sites. Despite the clear evidence that all the ancie ... |
| Hipparchus | The Greek astronomer | (c. 190 – c. 120 BCE) credited Eratosthenes (276 –194 BCE) as the inventor ... |
| Turgot | ... on et le commerce des grains, in which he attacked the free-trade policy of | . His wife now believed he could get into office as a great financier, and ... |
| Friedrich Engels | ... n between "utopian" and "scientific" socialism was first explicitly made by | in , which contrasted the "utopian pictures of ideal social conditions" of ... |
| Papin's | ... 1733 under a joint patent. Newcomen's engine appears to have been based on | experiments carried out 30 years earlier, and employed a piston and cylind ... |
| Sigmund Freud | ... istorical interest in psychology are the theories of psychoanalysts such as | , who believe that moral development is the product of aspects of the supe ... |
| Holden Thorp | ... Tulane University and the University of Virginia. The current chancellor is | , who earned a bachelor of science degree from UNC in 1986, a PhD in chemi ... |
| Sir Lawrence Bragg | ... y. The Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge was under the general direction of | , who won the Nobel Prize in 1915 at the age of 25. Bragg was influential ... |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | ... , hosted 126,000 visitors annually. Famous visitors to the springs included | , Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Wagner, and Johannes Brahms. In those years t ... |
| Oliver Stone | ... tion", or a black box called "E.P. Collection '84 - '90". In 1991, director | offered Astbury the role of Jim Morrison in Stone's film The Doors. He dec ... |
| Eugene T. Booth | ... e basement of Pupin Hall; the members of the team were Herbert L. Anderson, | , John R. Dunning, Enrico Fermi, G. Norris Glasoe, and Francis G. Slack. T ... |
| Aristotle | ... lian Physics was not designed with these sorts of calculations in mind, and | 's philosophy regarding the heavens was entirely at odds with the concept ... |
| Robert J. Sampson | ... e without access to a private space are often criminalized. Critics such as | and Stephen Raudenbush of Harvard University see the application of the br ... |
| Aristotle | ... e critics insisted on judging him according to the traditional standards of | and his Italian commentators from which he tended to stray. Attitudes shif ... |
| Averroes | ... ch as Al-Kindi (Alkindus), Al-Farabi (Alpharabius), Avicenna (Ibn Sina) and | (Ibn Rushd) reinterpreted Greek thought in the context of their religion. ... |
| Éva Pócs | ... stic elements in the benandanti custom of 16th century Italy, the Hungarian | , who identified them in the táltos tradition of Hungary, and the Frenchma ... |
| Kleene | ... nistic notion of truth often leads to misinterpretations about its meaning. | formally defined intuitionistic truth from a realist position, yet Brouwer ... |
| Jonathan Haidt | ... as been found of a relationship between attitudes in morality and politics. | and Jesse Graham have studied the differences between liberals and conserv ... |
| Augustin-Louis Cauchy | ... ssional colleague, as they would any man, by simply rejecting the work.” So | , who had been appointed to review her work, recommended she publish it, a ... |
| Emmy Noether | He was much influenced by | at Göttingen. Amsterdam awarded him a Ph.D. for a thesis on algebraic geom ... |
| Avicenna | ... Islamic philosophers such as Al-Kindi (Alkindus), Al-Farabi (Alpharabius), | (Ibn Sina) and Averroes (Ibn Rushd) reinterpreted Greek thought in the con ... |
| Hermann Bondi | ... es surfaces of simultaneity by considering light pulses, in accordance with | 's idea of the k-calculus. A second approach calculates a straightforward ... |
| David Bohm | Some quantum physicists have supported Sheldrake's hypothesis. The late | suggested that Sheldrake's hypothesis was in keeping with his own ideas on ... |
| Che Guevara | ... classes for the purpose of suppressing the oppressed classes, withers away. | sought socialism based on the rural peasantry rather than the urban workin ... |
| Franc Miklošič | ... treši gróm") in order to save the rest. However the censor (fellow-Slovene | in Austrian service) saw in the fourth stanza ("Edinost, sreča, sprava / k ... |
| James Goodnight | ... Furniture Industries (Nancy Webster), DuPont (Ed Woolard), SAS Institute ( | ), Andy Albright businessman, entrepreneur and President and CEO of Nation ... |
| Thomas Edison | ... rames—each frame was flashed two or three times on screen. Early studies by | determined that any rate below 46 images per second "will strain the eye." ... |
| Emmy Noether | ... a comprehensive whole. This work systematized an ample body of research by | , David Hilbert, Richard Dedekind, and Emil Artin. In the following year, ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... on of soft ice cream. A chemical research team in Britain (of which a young | was a member) discovered a method of doubling the amount of air in ice cre ... |
| Mark Liberman | ... ds Groseclose and Milyo used to calculate this bias have been criticized by | , a professor of Computer Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Liber ... |
| Austen Henry Layard | In the sculptures at Nineveh the parasol appears frequently. | gives a picture of a representing a king in his chariot, with an attendant ... |
| Charles D. Coryell | ... ories at the point) in 1945 by Jacob A. Marinsky, Lawrence E. Glendenin and | by separation and analysis of the fission products of uranium fuel irradia ... |
| Warren De la Rue | ... etailed photographic studies of the Sun were made by the British astronomer | starting in 1861. The first photograph of a star was a daguerreotype of th ... |
| David Hubel | ... es in a way that makes them function as "bug perceivers". A few years later | and Torsten Wiesel discovered cells in the primary visual cortex of monkey ... |
| Gerardus Mercator | ... ohannes Molanus, Joan Lluís Vives, Andreas Vesalius, Ferdinand Verbiest and | |
| Val Kilmer | ... Morrison was represented in the film, and the role was ultimately played by | |
| Ptolemy | ... ata that would convincingly support the heliocentric model did not exist in | 's time and would not come around for over fifteen hundred years after his ... |
| Yutaka Taniyama | Shimura was a colleague and a friend of | . They wrote a book (the first book treatment) on the complex multiplicati ... |
| Roger Bacon | ... ly passing on to Western Europe where they were studied by scholars such as | and Witelo |
| Hans Morgenthau | ... advance the goals of the right: "Eisenhower's victories were," according to | , "but accidents without consequence in the history of the Republican part ... |
| Herbert Marcuse | ... iderable influence in European philosophy. Eros and Civilisation (1955), by | , explicitly attempted to merge Marxism with Freudianism. The social scien ... |
| David Hilbert | ... ve whole. This work systematized an ample body of research by Emmy Noether, | , Richard Dedekind, and Emil Artin. In the following year, 1931, he was ap ... |
| Herbert L. Anderson | ... which was done in the basement of Pupin Hall; the members of the team were | , Eugene T. Booth, John R. Dunning, Enrico Fermi, G. Norris Glasoe, and Fr ... |
| Carl Schmitt | ... hke is now a leading conservative antidemocratic intellectual and editor of | . Later that year, Gudrun and Bernward were engaged to be married. Both we ... |
| Israel Finkelstein | ... e Books of Kings suggest that it was ten thousand, and then eight thousand. | , a prominent archaeologist, suggests that the 4,600 represented the heads ... |
| Charles Darwin | | 's On the Origin of Species was successful in convincing most biologists t ... |
| Li Ye | Likewise, the 13th century scholar | , arguing that the movements of the round heaven would be hindered by a sq ... |
| Lawrence E. Glendenin | ... aboratory (Clinton Laboratories at the point) in 1945 by Jacob A. Marinsky, | and Charles D. Coryell by separation and analysis of the fission products ... |
| Joseph Fourier | ... ers. Seven years later this tradition was broken when she made friends with | , a secretary of the Academy, who obtained tickets to the sessions for her |
| Daniel Bernoulli | ... ronomer, and systematizer of the Bessel functions (which were discovered by | ). He was a contemporary of Carl Gauss, also a mathematician and physicist ... |
| Nick Lane | from:1999 till:2012 color:sub text: | —trombon |
| John B. Watson | Another influential person in the world of Classical Conditioning is | . Watson's work was very influential and paved the way for B. F. Skinner's ... |
| L. E. J. Brouwer | In the early twentieth century | represented the intuitionist position and David Hilbert the formalist posi ... |
| Austin Sarat | ... ian Daniel Velleman, Biblical scholar Susan Niditch, law and society expert | , and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Lewis Spratlan, professor emeritus o ... |
| Guido Bonatti | 13th century astrologers include Johannes de Sacrobosco and | |
| Amartya Sen | In another article explicitly referring to Huntington, | (1999) writes that "diversity is a feature of most cultures in the world. ... |
| John Wilkins | ... r year he was alao elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1675 he edited | 's Principles of Natural Religion, completing what was left unfinished of ... |
| Patrick Bateson | ... g Sheldrake's prediction. In an independent analysis of the data, biologist | agreed with Rose that the results ran counter to the prediction of morphic ... |
| Mr. Freeze | ... and the comic book-based Batman & Robin (1997), where he played the villain | . This was his final film before taking time to recuperate from a back inj ... |
| Herbert L. Anderson | ... finding Fermi in his office, Bohr went down to the cyclotron area and found | . Bohr grabbed him by the shoulder and said: “Young man, let me explain to ... |
| Ernst Curtius | ... han the Mycenaean. This possibility appears to have been first suggested by | in the 1880s. In current scholarship, the standard assumption is to group ... |
| Sergei Chetverikov | ... , J. B. S. Haldane, Sewall Wright, E. B. Ford, Ernst Mayr, Bernhard Rensch, | , George Gaylord Simpson, and G. Ledyard Stebbins |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... red a Soviet mural of Lenin and images of Reagan and then-UK Prime Minister | . The sleeve notes, attributed to ZTT's Paul Morley, dispassionately repor ... |
| Edward Charles Pickering | ... as, years, or months. They were first introduced into variable star work by | , of the Harvard College Observatory, in 1890 |
| Wiles | ... this theorem. Shimura dryly commented that his first reaction on hearing of | 's proof of the semistable case of the theorem was 'I told you so' |
| Andreas Vesalius | ... s (Pope Adrian VI), Desiderius Erasmus, Johannes Molanus, Joan Lluís Vives, | , Ferdinand Verbiest and Gerardus Mercator |
| Jacob A. Marinsky | ... ak Ridge National Laboratory (Clinton Laboratories at the point) in 1945 by | , Lawrence E. Glendenin and Charles D. Coryell by separation and analysis ... |
| Ptolemy | ... s included among the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century astronomer | , and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations defined by the Intern ... |
| Joseph Schumpeter | Other theorists, such as | , Thorstein Veblen and some of the utopian socialists, believed that socia ... |
| Johannes de Sacrobosco | 13th century astrologers include | and Guido Bonatti |
| Jürgen Habermas | ... tution are Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Karl Jaspers, Hans-Georg Gadamer, | , Karl-Otto Apel and Hannah Arendt. The campus is situated in two urban ar ... |
| Richard Dedekind | ... work systematized an ample body of research by Emmy Noether, David Hilbert, | , and Emil Artin. In the following year, 1931, he was appointed professor ... |
| Robert May | ... s. The map was popularized in a seminal 1976 paper by the English biologist | , in part as a discrete-time demographic model analogous to the logistic e ... |
| Mary Archer | ... tack on Jeffrey Archer, who had been imprisoned for perjury, when his wife, | , was a fellow panellist. She was noticeably angry that the matter had bee ... |
| Lyudmila Chernykh | The minor planet 2212 Hephaistos discovered in 1978 by Soviet astronomer | is named in his honor |
| Jonathan Haidt | ... tructive stages or domains. Social psychologists such as Martin Hoffman and | emphasize social and emotional development based on biology, such as empat ... |
| William Thomson | ... considers devices by James Watt, Professor James Thomson, Fleeming Jenkin, | , Léon Foucault and Carl Wilhelm Siemens (a liquid governor) |
| Empedocles | ... generation of Sophists. Several doxographers report that he was a pupil of | , although he would only have been a few years younger. "Like other Sophis ... |
| Mikhail Artamonov | ... ion of Balanjar has not yet been established precisely. Soviet archeologist | initially placed Balanjar on the site of the modern Daghestani city of Buy ... |
| Christian Gottlob Heyne | ... . They were first used in the instruction of university students in 1763 by | at University of Göttingen. The Akademisches Kunstmuseum in Bonn was the f ... |
| Hadley Arkes | ... William Taubman, African art specialist Rowland Abiodun, Natural Law expert | , Mathematician Daniel Velleman, Biblical scholar Susan Niditch, law and s ... |
| Steven Rose | In 1990 neurobiologist | experimented jointly with Sheldrake to test the hypothesis of morphic reso ... |
| Theano | According to some accounts Pythagoras married | , a lady of Croton. Their children are variously stated to have included a ... |
| George Bernard Shaw | ... spects of his self-imposed restrictions somewhat as the work progressed. As | sardonically (and slightly unfairly) noted of the last opera Götterdämmeru ... |
| Sir John Randall | ... igration was made possible by the newly won influence of physicists such as | , who had helped win the war with inventions such as radar. Crick had to a ... |
| Thorstein Veblen | ... nomic system. Claude Henri de Saint-Simon, and later evolutionary economist | , believed that socialism would be the result of innovative engineers, sci ... |
| Ginger Rogers | ... es. He was married to actress Lola Lane from 1931 until 1933 and to actress | from 1934 until 1940. His third marriage, to Diana Hall, lasted from 1964 ... |
| Lewis Wolpert | ... who have sought to discuss his work, thoroughgoing metaphysical naturalists | and , reportedly refused to even examine his evidence—a fact cited as illu ... |
| Ibn Khaldun | ... to have said: "There is no way for two (leaders) together at any one time" | the famous 14th century Muslim scholar, economist and historian said |
| Emil Artin | ... mple body of research by Emmy Noether, David Hilbert, Richard Dedekind, and | . In the following year, 1931, he was appointed professor at the Universit ... |
| Plato | ... sm are still obscure and disputed, but they probably include influence from | , Middle Platonism and Neo-Pythagoreanism academies or schools of thought, ... |
| William Damon | ... opment based on biology, such as empathy. Moral identity theorists, such as | and Mordechai Nisan, see moral commitment as arising from the development ... |
| Jan Mikusinski | ... nses in scattering media*List of convolutions of probability distributions* | *Scaled correlatio |
| Thorstein Veblen | Other theorists, such as Joseph Schumpeter, | and some of the utopian socialists, believed that socialism would form nat ... |
| Bernhard Rensch | ... dosius Dobzhansky, J. B. S. Haldane, Sewall Wright, E. B. Ford, Ernst Mayr, | , Sergei Chetverikov, George Gaylord Simpson, and G. Ledyard Stebbins |
| Christopher Skase | ... ported that Dave "Sluggo" Richardson had made a highly misleading report on | for Today Tonight. Richardson was suspended from duty for a month, and in ... |
| John Gunn | ... many notable scientists, including David Bates, Robert Boyd, George Deacon, | , Harrie Massey and Nevill Mott; he worked on the design of magnetic and a ... |
| Israel C. White | ... in 1889 with the first oil drilling, following recommendations made by Dr. | , a well-known geologist who later became West Virginia State Geologist. A ... |
| B. V. Bowden | The appointment of | (later Lord Bowden) in 1953 marked the beginning of a phase of expansion. ... |
| William Cranch Bond | ... rst photograph of a star was a daguerreotype of the star Vega by astronomer | and daguerreotype photographer and experimenter John Adams Whipple, on Jul ... |
| Leibniz | ... rs, Yarkand, Kucha, and Turpan to the Ming China's border as Suzhou, Gansu. | , echoing the prevailing perception in Europe until the Industrial Revolut ... |
| G. Ledyard Stebbins | ... rnst Mayr, Bernhard Rensch, Sergei Chetverikov, George Gaylord Simpson, and | |
| Joseph Swan | ... safety lamps, Stephenson's Rocket, Lord Armstrong's artillery, Be-Ro flour, | 's electric light bulbs, and Charles Parsons' invention of the steam turbi ... |
| Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker | ... sities were scattered around universities libraries. The first director was | , who also held a professorship of archaeology. His tenure was from 1819 u ... |
| Isidor Isaac Rabi | ... Atlantic Ocean with Niels Bohr, who was to lecture at Princeton University. | and Willis Lamb, two Columbia University physicists working at Princeton, ... |
| Thorstein Veblen | ... al element to Marxism and initiating the concept of evolutionary socialism. | saw socialism as an immediate stage in an ongoing evolutionary process in ... |
| Aristotle | ... d the profits made from his performances and rhetoric classes. According to | , his students included Isocrates. (Other students are named in later trad ... |
| Carl Gauss | ... tions (which were discovered by Daniel Bernoulli). He was a contemporary of | , also a mathematician and physicist. The asteroid 1552 Bessel was named i ... |
| Minnaert | ... e, it is possible to see it in the naturally polarized light of a blue sky. | recommends practicing first with a polarizer, then trying it without. The ... |
| David Bates | ... aboratory, from which emerged a group of many notable scientists, including | , Robert Boyd, George Deacon, John Gunn, Harrie Massey and Nevill Mott; he ... |
| Auguste Comte | ... were then just coming into existence. Her philosophy was highly praised by | |
| John Herschel | In his book Outlines of Astronomy, first published in 1849, the astronomer | wrote |
| Willis Lamb | ... els Bohr, who was to lecture at Princeton University. Isidor Isaac Rabi and | , two Columbia University physicists working at Princeton, heard the news ... |
| Kurt Tank | ... ing lower drag. However, radial engines could endure more combat damage, so | fitted a BMW 801 to a new fighter design he was working on. As a result, t ... |
| Ptolemy | ... and Romans, being noted by most major geographers of the period, including: | , iv. 5. § 54; Herodotus, ii. 3, 7, 59; Strabo, xvii. p. 805; Diodorus, i. ... |
| Joe Nickell | ... onic initiation rite involving a hidden vault containing a sacred treasure. | identifies parallels between the accounts of Oak Island and the allegory o ... |
| Thomas Henderson | ... e had an error of 8.8%. He narrowly beat Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve and | , who measured the parallaxes of Vega and Alpha Centauri in the same year |
| John C. Lettsome | ... mber of famous historical figures came from that small community, including | , William Thornton, Samuel Nottingham and Richard Humphreys. There are som ... |
| Theophrastus | ... totle, Historia animalium and Politica; Epicurus, Physica and Meteorologica | ;, Eclogae physicae; Oppian, Halieutica and Cynegetica; the complete works ... |
| Amit Goswami | ... f the Past: A Field Theory of Life was positively reviewed by the physicist | |
| Josef Mattauch | In 1934, | finally formulated the isobar rule. One of the indirect consequences of wa ... |
| Varro | ... ation between Aeneas and Dido. Servius in his commentary (4.682; 5.4) cites | (1st century BC ) for a version in which Dido's sister Anna killed herself ... |
| James Bowdoin | ... ions made at high values with lower-valued paper. The merchants, among them | , were opposed, because they were generally lenders who stood to lose by s ... |
| George Gaylord Simpson | ... Sewall Wright, E. B. Ford, Ernst Mayr, Bernhard Rensch, Sergei Chetverikov, | , and G. Ledyard Stebbins |
| Steven Rose | ... nconsciously, or to other conspecifics. A neuroscientist and memory expert, | , has been critical of this view. A major reason for the criticism is that ... |
| Jacques Parizeau | ... ods, a plan intended to lay out the way to sovereignty created by PQ leader | . Parizeau became Premier of Quebec in the Quebec election of 1994 (the se ... |
| Al-Kindi | ... antiquity and had them translated into Arabic. Islamic philosophers such as | (Alkindus), Al-Farabi (Alpharabius), Avicenna (Ibn Sina) and Averroes (Ibn ... |
| Heinrich Hertz | ... o transmitters (called Hertzian oscillators) were built by German physicist | in 1887 during his pioneering investigations of radio waves. These generat ... |
| Galileo Galilei | ... ns was entirely at odds with the concept of heliocentrism. It was not until | observed the moons of Jupiter on January 7, 1610, and the phases of Venus ... |
| Gilbert White | | studied the Barn Swallow in detail in his pioneering work The Natural Hist ... |
| J. B. S. Haldane | ... igures in the modern synthesis include R. A. Fisher, Theodosius Dobzhansky, | , Sewall Wright, E. B. Ford, Ernst Mayr, Bernhard Rensch, Sergei Chetverik ... |
| G.E. Hutchinson | ... is termed the realized niche. The ecological niche has also been termed by | a "hypervolume." This term defines the multi-dimensional space of resource ... |
| Alan Cairns | ... ntended to be a source for national values and national unity. As Professor | noted, "The initial federal government premise was on developing a pan-Can ... |
| Albert Gallatin | ... horough-bred Frenchman". It has been said that the Alien Acts were aimed at | , the Jeffersonian from Geneva; and the Sedition Act aimed at Benjamin Fra ... |
| Eliezer Ben-Yehuda | ... evived in spoken form at the end of the 19th century by the Jewish linguist | . It has become the main language of Israel, while remaining the language ... |
| Ellen DeGeneres | ... ennifer Meyer at courtside for Laker home games. As a baby gift, comedienne | gave Maguire a special basketball motif stroller with Lexan dome to protec ... |
| Niels Bohr | ... retation of the work of Hahn and Strassmann crossed the Atlantic Ocean with | , who was to lecture at Princeton University. Isidor Isaac Rabi and Willis ... |
| Joseph Priestley | ... ciation of Ideas). A friend, associate, and one of his chief advocates, was | (1733–1804), the discoverer of oxygen. Priestley was one of the foremost s ... |
| Tadeusz Piotrowski | ... tion of local commanders with the Germans was condemned by AK headquarters. | quotes Joseph Rothschild saying "The Polish Home Army was by and large unt ... |
| Michael Freeden | ... alist society: sociality, social responsibility, cooperation, and planning. | in his study Ideologies and Political Theory (1996) states that all social ... |
| Robert Lucas | ... m Hayek's Austrian School. So successful were these criticisms that by 1980 | was saying economists would often take offence if described as Keynesians |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | ... n was contracted to direct an adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, in which | 's three-volume novel would be condensed into a single film. Bakshi arrang ... |
| Alan Boss | ... any planets might support simple or even intelligent life. For example, Dr. | of the Carnegie Institution of Science estimates there may be a "hundred b ... |
| Oliver Stone | ... ust a matter of creating the scene and trusting that it was worth telling." | , who had seen her in Nuñez's film, cast Judd in Natural Born Killers, but ... |
| Ptolemy | ... ps the law of buoyancy, also known as Archimedes' Principle. The astronomer | wrote the Almagest, a comprehensive astronomical text that formed the basi ... |
| Plato | ... arning modelled by Murat on the caliphates of Cairo and Baghdad. He admired | so much that late in life he took the similar-meaning name Plethon. In c14 ... |
| Charles Darwin | ... ly of artists is attested to by the fact that Francis Galton, the cousin of | used the Bonheurs as an example of "Hereditary Genius" in his 1869 essay o ... |
| Rand Dyck | ... icularly important to the mobility and language rights. According to author | , some scholars believe section 23, with its minority language education r ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... f Rights, which was then included in a new constitution. Another Virginian, | , drew upon Mason's work in drafting the national Declaration of Independe ... |
| David Hume | ... l). Religion is not always positively associated with morality. Philosopher | stated that, "the greatest crimes have been found, in many instances, to b ... |
| Owen Gingerich | ... rate for its day and was still in use at the time of Copernicus and Kepler. | describes a planetary conjunction that occurred in 1504 that was apparentl ... |
| Yi-xing | In 723 CE, Tang dynasty Buddhist monk | (一行) and government official Liang Ling-zan (梁令瓚) combined Zhang Heng's wa ... |
| Archimedes | In the 3rd century BCE, the Greek mathematician | laid the foundations of hydrostatics, statics and the explanation of the p ... |
| Edward Neville da Costa Andrade | ... scribed as "the dullest problem imaginable") in the laboratory of physicist | at University College, London, but with the outbreak of World War II (in p ... |
| Parameshvara | A special case of this theorem was first described by | (1370–1460) from the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics in his com ... |
| Charles Babbage | ... loped by Joseph Marie Jacquard (1804), and later adopted by Semen Korsakov, | , Hermann Hollerith, and early computer manufacturers like IBM. Another va ... |
| Alexander de Rhodes | ... replaced by a modified Latin script created by the Jesuit missionary priest | , which incorporates a system of diacritical marks to indicate tones, as w ... |
| The Prince of Wales | ... of succession. The present Counsellors of State are: The Duke of Edinburgh, | , The Duke of Cambridge, Prince Harry of Wales and The Duke of York |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | | 's fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings (1937-1949) shares elements with De ... |
| Henry Briggs | Common logarithms are sometimes also called Briggsian logarithms after | , a 17th-century British mathematician |
| Aristotle | ... out the necessity for more than one piece of evidence goes back at least to | 's Nicomachean Ethics: "For as one swallow or one day does not make a spri ... |
| William H. Sewell | Frederick H. Buttel (1948–2005) was an American sociologist. He was the | Professor of Rural Sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| Francis Galton | ... family was renowned as a family of artists is attested to by the fact that | , the cousin of Charles Darwin used the Bonheurs as an example of "Heredit ... |
| Arthur C. Clarke | In the fictional work "The Last Theorem" by | and Frederik Pohl, Sophie Germain was credited with inspiring Ranjit Subra ... |
| George Bernard Shaw | ... hey recognised the play's cleverness, humour and popularity with audiences. | , for example, reviewed the play in the Saturday Review, arguing that come ... |
| Nikola Tesla | In 1891, | invented the Tesla coil, an air-cored, dual-tuned resonant transformer for ... |
| Apollonius of Perga | ... t motion of the heavenly bodies with respect to time is cyclical in nature. | realized that this cyclical variation could be represented visually by cir ... |
| Ivar Aasen | ... of the farmers at this point. Although he seems to have been supportive of | and friendly towards farmers (in the peasant-novels), he later denounced t ... |
| Plato | ... secutors of the philosopher Socrates, and is depicted as an interlocutor in | 's Meno |
| Alexander Esenin-Volpin | ... mathematicians accept the reality of countably infinite sets (however, see | for a counter-example) |
| Theodosius Dobzhansky | ... , (1942). Other major figures in the modern synthesis include R. A. Fisher, | , J. B. S. Haldane, Sewall Wright, E. B. Ford, Ernst Mayr, Bernhard Rensch ... |
| Simon Conway Morris | ... re re-wound and played back, life would have taken a very different course. | counters this argument, arguing that convergence is a dominant force in ev ... |
| Pliny the Elder | According to The Natural History of Pliny, by | (Book XIX, Chapter 23), the Roman Emperor Tiberius had the cucumber on his ... |
| Michael Shermer | ... on is one of seven flaws in parapsychological research identified by Marks. | wrote in Scientific American (2005) that there were a number of objections ... |
| E. B. Ford | ... clude R. A. Fisher, Theodosius Dobzhansky, J. B. S. Haldane, Sewall Wright, | , Ernst Mayr, Bernhard Rensch, Sergei Chetverikov, George Gaylord Simpson, ... |
| Govindasvāmi | ... from the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics in his commentaries on | and Bhaskara II. The mean value theorem in its modern form was later state ... |
| James Bowdoin | ... 1752 by the Kennebec Company to William Bowdoin of Boston, older brother of | . Originally called West Bowdoinham Plantation, it was settled some years ... |
| Clements | ... modern birds. This list uses the traditional classification (the so-called | order), revised by the Sibley-Monroe classification. The list of birds giv ... |
| Lewis Carroll | ... den it; like the hatters, crazed by their exposure to mercury, who inspired | 's famous character of the Mad Hatter, most smiths of the Bronze Age would ... |
| Johannes Kepler | ... ope had on astronomy came quickly and were both controversial and profound. | was able to formulate his famous three laws of planetary motion, which des ... |
| James Steuart | ... or manifesto of the movement. Perhaps the last major mercantilist work was | ’s Principles of Political Economy published in 1767 |
| Hipparchus | ... ents survived. Although he wrote at least fourteen books, almost nothing of | ' direct work survived. Of the 150 reputed Aristotelian works, only 30 exi ... |
| Aristotle | ... was the author of De Differentiis, a detailed comparison between Plato and | s' conceptions of God. Scholarios later defended Aristotle and convinced t ... |
| Augustin-Louis Cauchy | ... (also known as the Cauchy–Goursat theorem) in complex analysis, named after | , is an important statement about line integrals for holomorphic functions ... |
| Roy Baumeister | ... ly to dissociate belief in determinism from belief in moral responsibility. | and colleagues reviewed literature on the psychological effects of a belie ... |
| Newtonian | ... t series of lectures ("A Confutation of Atheism"), he endeavours to present | physics in a popular form, and to frame them (especially in opposition to ... |
| Adam Smith | ... . The headstone was for the vintner Ebenezer Lennox Scroggie, a relative of | , who had won the catering contract for the visit of George IV to Edinburg ... |
| Stephen Hawking | In 1991, John Preskill and Kip Thorne bet against | that the hypothesis was false. Hawking conceded the bet in 1997, due to th ... |
| Ptolemy | ... n (it did so until 1925). The astronomical day had begun at noon ever since | chose to begin the days in his astronomical periods at noon. He chose noon ... |
| Aristotle | ... ith treason. According to the Constitution of the Athenians associated with | , he was later acquitted by bribing the jury. Anytus later won favor by pl ... |
| Ginger Rogers | Later, in the 1930s, the on-screen dance pairing of Fred Astaire and | influenced all forms of dance in the USA and elsewhere. Although both acto ... |
| Hugo Strange | ... een Quinzel, Lyle Bolton and, in some incarnations, Drs. Jonathan Crane and | , have gone insane themselves |
| Otto Robert Frisch | ... y, they communicated these results to Lise Meitner. Meitner, and her nephew | , correctly interpreted these results as being nuclear fission. Following ... |
| G. I. Taylor | ... of fiber diffraction analysis. In 1934, Polanyi, at about the same time as | and Egon Orowan, realised that the plastic deformation of ductile material ... |
| Stephen Jay Gould | ... lution is the subject of a popular controversy. In his book Wonderful Life, | argues that if the tape of life were re-wound and played back, life would ... |
| Nancy Langhorne | Danville was home to both | , Viscountess Astor, the first woman to serve in the British House of Comm ... |
| Claude-Louis Navier | ... are unreliable", but is nevertheless interesting, quotes the mathematician | as saying, "it is a work which few men are able to read and which only one ... |
| Smith | ... was more influential than the magna opera of other famous economists, like | 's The Wealth of Nations |
| Marlon Brando | ... t sought-after leading men in Hollywood, and his only direct competitor was | . At one point he was receiving so many offers of roles that friends had t ... |
| Fridtjof Nansen | ... seen have many similarities to those of Greenland Inuit groups described by | , although a large distance separates Siberia and Greenland. There may be ... |
| Pierre Teilhard de Chardin | ... iew has certain similarities to the concepts of Christogenesis advocated by | |
| Mr. Freeze | ... nt them from staying in a regular prison are housed in Arkham. For example, | is not always depicted as insane, but he requires a strongly refrigerated ... |
| Plato | ... , or lover of wisdom, and Pythagorean ideas exercised a marked influence on | , and through him, all of Western philosophy |
| Charles Fellows | ... tions of Greek Lycia: Kr or Ksan Kr. The name of western Lycia was given by | to it and points of Lycia west of it |
| Oliver Smithies | ... ent that increased fourfold to over $2 billion in just ten years. Professor | was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2007 for his work in genetics |
| Susan Solomon | Since 2001 the organization has hosted the senior staff and recent chair, | , of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's working group on clim ... |
| Georg Cantor | The first of these was the invention of transfinite arithmetic by | and its subsequent rejection by a number of prominent mathematicians inclu ... |
| John Preskill | In 1991, | and Kip Thorne bet against Stephen Hawking that the hypothesis was false. ... |
| Robert Durrer | The process was developed in 1948 by | and commercialized in 1952–1953 by Austrian VOEST and ÖAMG. The LD convert ... |
| George Placzek | ... interpreted these results as being nuclear fission. Following an advice of | , Frisch confirmed this experimentally on 13 January 1939 |
| Edith Evans | ... and directed it. Michael Denison (Algernon), Michael Redgrave (Jack), Dame | (Lady Bracknell), Dorothy Tutin (Cecily), Joan Greenwood (Gwendolen), and ... |
| Misselden | ... tem into the 19th century. However, many British writers, including Mun and | , were merchants, while many of the writers from other countries were publ ... |
| Johann Bayer | ... dentified this constellation called it Oistos. The Romans named it Sagitta. | chose to name the stars in Sagitta in a non-brightness order, in this case ... |
| Steven Strogatz | ... N 978-0385531689). The six degrees research is based on his 1998 paper with | in which the two presented a mathematical theory of the small world phenom ... |
| Leopold Kronecker | ... by a number of prominent mathematicians including most famously his teacher | — a confirmed finitist |
| W. E. B. Du Bois | ... errell and his wife Dr. Mary Church Terrell, Robert Weaver, Harriet Tubman, | , and poets Langston Hughes and Paul Laurence Dunbar. Charles Douglass’ fa ... |
| Sewall Wright | ... rn synthesis include R. A. Fisher, Theodosius Dobzhansky, J. B. S. Haldane, | , E. B. Ford, Ernst Mayr, Bernhard Rensch, Sergei Chetverikov, George Gayl ... |
| Kip Thorne | In 1991, John Preskill and | bet against Stephen Hawking that the hypothesis was false. Hawking concede ... |
| Ralph Hartley | ... communications machines such as teletypes and stock ticker machines (1870). | suggested the use of a logarithmic measure of information in 1928. Claude ... |
| Gottlob Frege | The second of these was | 's effort to reduce all of mathematics to a logical formulation via set th ... |
| Karl Popper | ... contend, the greatest harms are more consequential than the greatest goods. | also referred to an epistemological argument: “It adds to clarity in the f ... |
| Plato | Chronologically, the first recorded utopian proposal is | 's Republic. Part conversation, part fictional depiction, and part policy ... |
| Fritz Strassmann | In December 1938, the German chemists Otto Hahn and | sent a manuscript to Naturwissenschaften reporting they had detected the e ... |
| Henry Briggs | ... the decadic logarithm, named after its base, and Briggsian logarithm, after | , an English mathematician who pioneered its use. It is indicated by log 1 ... |
| Eratosthenes | ... and the Vulture - and still lying between them, whence the title Herculea. | claimed it as the arrow with which Apollo exterminated the |
| James Braid | ... tribution to science were his discoveries around magnetism and meteorology. | , surgeon and pioneer of hypnotism and hypnotherapy, practised in Dumfries ... |
| GE Stahl | ... held another principle. He belonged in biology to the vitalistic school of | , and in the posthumous work, Lettre sur les causes premières (1824), the ... |
| Joan Crawford | ... MGM he was one of the main directors of their female stars–he directed both | and Greta Garbo six times. Garbo called Brown her favorite director |
| Adriaan de Groot | ... which makes it possible to compare their levels of expertise. The works of | , William Chase, Herbert Simon, and Fernand Gobet have established that kn ... |
| Alain Colmerauer | The language was first conceived by a group around | in Marseille, France, in the early 1970s and the first Prolog system was d ... |
| Edgar F. Codd | ... sources). However, the term did not appear until 1993 when it was coined by | , who has been described as "the father of the relational database". Codd' ... |
| Vladimir Lenin | ... nshevik leaders. On 20 December 1917 the Cheka was created by the decree of | . These were the beginnings of the Bolshevik's consolidation of power over ... |
| Harry Harlow | ... bonding and the development of social abilities in adult life. Inspired by | 's famous experiments on rhesus monkeys, which established a link between ... |
| Richard Courant | ... in the 1870s. For almost one hundred years thereafter, mathematicians like | viewed infinitesimals as being naive and vague or meaningless |
| Brouwer | ... rt because his time in Germany made his politics suspect and in part due to | 's opposition to Hilbert's school of mathematics. After a year visiting Jo ... |
| Robert F. Coleman | ... I was gay, Psycho would be read as a different book." In an interview with | , Ellis refers to his as an "indeterminate sexuality", and said "any other ... |
| Herbert Simon | ... re their levels of expertise. The works of Adriaan de Groot, William Chase, | , and Fernand Gobet have established that knowledge, more than the ability ... |
| G. Evelyn Hutchinson | The niche concept was popularized by the zoologist | in 1957. Hutchinson wanted to know why there are so many different types o ... |
| Lemony Snicket | ... Boris Max, is woven into the plot of The Penultimate Peril, a 2005 book by | . "Richard Wright, an American novelist of the realist school, asks a famo ... |
| Alfred Biliotti | Meanwhile, in 1868, tombs at Ialysus in Rhodes had yielded to | many fine painted vases of styles which were called later the third and fo ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... Clark camped at that mouth of the Kalama River, under orders from President | . Over the following days, they would reached the present sites of Kelso a ... |
| John Craig | ... hardson, naturalist, explorer and naval surgeon was born in Dumfries as was | , mathematician, and polymath James Crichton. Benjamin Bell after being bo ... |
| Stanley Milgram | ... More recently he has attracted attention for his modern-day replication of | 's using email messages and for his studies of popularity and fads in on-l ... |
| George Gaylord Simpson | ... sed by) organisms. The term adaptive zone was coined by the paleontologist, | , and refers to a set of ecological niches that may be occupied by a group ... |
| William Huggins | ... the English chemist William Allen Miller and English amateur astronomer Sir | used the wet collodion plate process to obtain the first ever photographic ... |
| Pāṇini | ... ter addition though they must have already formed part of it at the time of | (ca. 5th c. BC), if, as seems probable, one of his grammatical sutras, reg ... |
| Jennifer A. Clack | Research by | and her colleagues showed that the earliest tetrapods, such as Acanthosteg ... |
| Lee Teng-hui | ... er Chiang Ching-kuo. The reforms were promulgated under Chiang's successor, | , which culminated in the first ever direct presidential election in 1996. ... |
| Malcolm Fraser | In October 1975, the Opposition, led by | , determined to block supply by deferring consideration of appropriation b ... |
| John Stuart Mill | ... quences. Two influential contributors to this theory are Jeremy Bentham and | . Utilitarianism was described by Mill as "the greatest happiness principl ... |
| John Mauchly | ... ration, founded four years earlier by ENIAC inventors J. Presper Eckert and | , and the associated line of computers which continues to this day in one ... |
| Bell's father | The Volta Laboratory and the Volta Bureau were earlier located at | 's house at 1527 35th Street in Washington, D.C., where its carriage house ... |
| Lewis Carroll | In 1865 | (1832–1898) published Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in England. The tal ... |
| Lise Meitner | ... g uranium with neutrons; simultaneously, they communicated these results to | . Meitner, and her nephew Otto Robert Frisch, correctly interpreted these ... |
| Isaac Newton | ... he tells us, was drawn from certain speculations as to nervous action which | had published in his Principia. His psychological theory was suggested by ... |
| Abraham Robinson | ... use of infinitesimal quantities was finally given a rigorous foundation by | in the 1960s. Robinson's approach, called non-standard analysis, uses tech ... |
| Ivar Aasen | ... okesman for the Norwegian Left-wing movement. In this respect, he supported | , and joined forces in the political struggles in the 1860s and -70s. When ... |
| Vladimir Ilyich Lenin | ... some respect. Lenin's Mausoleum, for example, contains the embalmed body of | , the founder of the Soviet Union. Nearby to the south is the elaborate br ... |
| Pliny the Elder | According to | (The Natural History, Book XIX, Chapter 23), the Ancient Greeks grew cucum ... |
| Julian Huxley | ... etics, cytology, systematics, botany, morphology, ecology and paleontology. | invented the term, when he produced his book, (1942). Other major figures ... |
| Goethe | ... a during Mozart's lifetime, and throughout German-speaking Europe. In 1787, | wrote (concerning his own efforts as a librettist) |
| Vannevar Bush | ... 1947 in which he contracted "binary digit" to simply "bit". Interestingly, | had written in 1936 of "bits of information" that could be stored on the p ... |
| Leopold Kronecker | In mathematics, the Kronecker delta or Kronecker's delta, named after | , is a function of two variables, usually integers, which is 1 if they are ... |
| Robert Lucas | ... tes economy recover from the late-2000s recession. Some economists, such as | , questioned the theoretical basis for stimulus packages. Others, like Rob ... |
| Ralph Abraham | With | and Terence McKenna |
| Joseph Grinnell | ... French word nicher, meaning to nest. The term was coined by the naturalist | in 1917, in his paper "The niche relationships of the California Thrasher. |
| Jerzy Łoś | ... are precise, clear, and meaningful, building upon work by Edwin Hewitt and | . According to Jerome Keisler, "Robinson solved a three hundred year old p ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | Vice President | denounced the Sedition Act as invalid and a violation of the constitution |
| Gopal Krishna Gokhale | ... all things British. The moderates led by leaders like Dadabhai Naoroji and | on the other hand wanted reform within the framework of British rule. Tila ... |
| Marianne Schnitger | Also in 1893 he married his distant cousin | , later a feminist activist and author in her own right, who was instrumen ... |
| Terence McKenna | With Ralph Abraham and | |
| Ken Nordtvedt | ... quently spreading from the Balkans through Central Russian Plain. Recently, | has split I2a2 into two clades - N (northern) and S (southern), in relatio ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... mers and plantation owners, including U.S. Presidents George Washington and | , cut and stored ice in the winter for use in the summer. Frederic Tudor o ... |
| Jefferson | The Democratic Party is often called "the party of | ," while the modern Republican Party is often called "the party of Lincoln ... |
| Humphry Davy | Clathrate hydrates were first documented in 1810 by Sir | |
| Noam Chomsky | ... al governments, and to the support they receive from their host population. | states that Interview |
| Peter Atkins | ... e University of East Anglia, which resulted in criticism from Lord Winston, | , Richard Wiseman and the Royal Societ |
| Seleucus of Seleucia | ... c model of the solar system, placing the Sun, not the Earth, at the centre. | , a follower of the heliocentric theory of Aristarchus, stated that the Ea ... |
| Otto Hahn | In December 1938, the German chemists | and Fritz Strassmann sent a manuscript to Naturwissenschaften reporting th ... |
| Abraham Robinson | Contrary to such views, | showed in 1960 that infinitesimals are precise, clear, and meaningful, bui ... |
| Den Uyl | ... of government by the social-democratic/Christian-democratic cabinet led by | . Although the ties between the VVD and other organizations within the neu ... |
| Benjamin Franklin | ... actor," was among the first American colonialists to write literary satire. | and others followed, using satire to shape an emerging nation's culture th ... |
| Egas Moniz | ... urgery in the twentieth century was conducted by the Portuguese neurologist | . During the mid-1930s he developed the operation known as leucotomy. The ... |
| Richard Wiseman | ... f East Anglia, which resulted in criticism from Lord Winston, Peter Atkins, | and the Royal Societ |
| Edwin Hewitt | ... at infinitesimals are precise, clear, and meaningful, building upon work by | and Jerzy Łoś. According to Jerome Keisler, "Robinson solved a three hundr ... |
| Lewis Carroll | ... nd they wanted Hello Kitty to be different. Shimizu got the name Kitty from | 's Through the Looking-Glass, where in a scene early in the book Alice pla ... |
| Robert J. Sampson | According to a study conducted by | and Stephen W. Raudenbush, the premise that the broken windows theory oper ... |
| Charles Sutherland Elton | In 1927 | , a British ecologist, gave the first working definition of the niche conc ... |
| William Allen Miller | In 1863 the English chemist | and English amateur astronomer Sir William Huggins used the wet collodion ... |
| Silas Rand | ... e Mi'kmaq First Nation in Eastern Canada. In Legends of the Micmacs (1894), | describes a Mi'kmaq ball game people called tooadijik. Rand also describes ... |
| Carl Reichenbach | ... er the guise of scientific exhibitions, throughout Europe and Russia. Baron | 's experiments with his Odic force appeared to be an attempt to bridge the ... |
| Christopher Wren | ... ry tilt yard tower — the only surviving example of the five original towers | ;'s Lion gate built for Queen Anne and George I; and the Tudor and 17th-ce ... |
| Sergei Chetverikov | ... nced by his exposure in the 1920s to the work of a Russian geneticist named | who had looked at the role of recessive genes in maintaining a reservoir o ... |
| Robert Duvall | THX 1138 ( | ) works in a factory producing androids that function as police officers. ... |
| Louis Jacques Thénard | ... 1799 as a by-product of his attempts to decompose air. Nineteen years later | recognized that this compound could be used for the preparation of a previ ... |
| Wilhelm von Humboldt | ... he world of letters, science and art, including Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, | , Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Lo ... |
| Max von Laue | ... ndergone acceleration and deceleration, thus differentiating the two cases. | argued in 1913 that since the traveling twin must be in two separate inert ... |
| Gregor Kiczales | ... ogramming, which was later developed by some of the same engineers, such as | . The MOP defines the behavior of the whole object system by a set of prot ... |
| Doris Day | ... d the film Young Man with a Horn, starring Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, and | . In this version, in which Hoagy Carmichael also plays a role, the Rick M ... |
| Michael Faraday | Quantitative aspects of electrolysis were originally developed by | in 1834. Faraday is also credited to have coined the terms electrolyte, el ... |
| Aristotle | ... nics, but it is by no means certain that he would have recognized the term. | , writing a generation later refers several times to Antisthenes and his f ... |
| Donald Knuth | In Introduction to MMIX, | proposed that this unit be called a large kilobyte (abbreviated KKB). Othe ... |
| Roger Penrose | ... created by the Swedish artist Oscar Reutersvärd in 1934. The mathematician | independently devised and popularised it in the 1950s, describing it as "i ... |
| Michael Faraday | The concept of the electric field was introduced by | . An electric field is created by a charged body in the space that surroun ... |
| Ernst Kummer | ... to Berlin where he was a student of Leopold Kronecker, Karl Weierstraß, and | |
| Aristarchus of Samos | ... y estimated its circumference. In contrast to Aristotle's geocentric views, | (; 310 BCE – ca. 230 BCE) presented an explicit argument for a heliocentri ... |
| Jack Layton | After the Gomery findings, NDP leader | notified the Liberals of conditions for the NDP's continued support; the t ... |
| John James Audubon | ... ted States during the 19th century; outstanding early practitioners include | , as well as early Hudson River School painters such as William H. Bartlet ... |
| Aristarchus of Samothrace | ... tury BC by Moschos, a bucolic poet and friend of the Alexandrian grammarian | , born at Syracuse |
| Robert Michael Pyle | ... tories of wildmen are found on every continent except Antarctica. Ecologist | argues that most cultures have human-like giants in their folk history: "W ... |
| Paul Langevin | Starting with | in 1911, there have been numerous explanations of this paradox, many based ... |
| Paul Dirac | ... in physics before eventually winning a Nobel Prize in chemistry. Similarly, | , one of the founders of quantum mechanics, began his academic career as a ... |
| John Aubrey | ... hn Davenant, bishop of Salisbury, was his uncle and godfather. According to | , Fuller was "a boy of pregnant wit." At thirteen he was admitted to Queen ... |
| John Maddox | ... d reviews. Then in September 1981, Nature published an editorial written by | , the journal's senior editor, entitled "A book for burning?" In it, Maddo ... |
| Yuri Felshtinsky | According to | and Vladimir Pribylovsky, top KGB officers Alexander Korzhakov and Alexand ... |
| David Salo | For The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, the linguist | used what little is known of the Black Speech to invent two phrases |
| Plato | ... as to his definite philosophical views. Everything of the kind mentioned by | and Aristotle is attributed not to Pythagoras, but to the Pythagoreans. He ... |
| Jacques Parizeau | ... uebec for sovereignty, according to the Three Periods strategy of PQ leader | . In this election, the Bloc Québécois won 54 out of 75 ridings in Quebec, ... |
| Grace Hopper | ... e Mark I were computing pioneers Richard Milton Bloch, Robert Campbell, and | |
| Alexander von Humboldt | One of the first synthetic peroxides, barium peroxide, was synthesized by | in 1799 as a by-product of his attempts to decompose air. Nineteen years l ... |
| CH Waddington's | ... gall's experiment with rats in a water maze and Mae-Wan Ho's replication of | experiment with fruit flies, as well as several psychology experiments inv ... |
| Jacob Grimm | ... dern German became attached to the activities of these courts specifically. | thought that the word is identical in origin to a homophonous word for the ... |
| Michael Scot | ... have been falsely attributed to him. His book on animals was translated by | . His Logic, Metaphysics, Physics, and De Caelo, are treatises giving a sy ... |
| Richard Trevithick's | ... nts might have been impossible. Later inventions such as the power loom and | high pressure steam engine were also important in the growing industrialis ... |
| Aristotle | ... Gorgias’ Encomium of Helen. Of the three divisions of rhetoric discussed by | in his Rhetoric (forensic, deliberative, and epideictic), the Encomium can ... |
| Émile Borel | ... countable intersection, and relative complement. Borel sets are named after | |
| Albert Einstein | ... he aging difference, not the acceleration per se. Explanations put forth by | and Max Born invoked gravitational time dilation to explain the aging as a ... |
| Harry Dexter White | ... ported by other European delegates, as well as the United States (including | , Secretary of the Treasury and Henry Morgenthau), but opposed by John May ... |
| Aristotle | ... definite philosophical views. Everything of the kind mentioned by Plato and | is attributed not to Pythagoras, but to the Pythagoreans. Heraclitus state ... |
| Donald Johanson | Leakey and | were at the time considered to be the most famous palaeoanthoropologists, ... |
| Hans Sloane | ... ney to Paris. And in 1700 he satirised the Royal Society — or at least, Sir | , their president — in two dialogues, entitled The Transactioner. At Mount ... |
| Vladimir Pribylovsky | According to Yuri Felshtinsky and | , top KGB officers Alexander Korzhakov and Alexander Komelkov may have plo ... |
| Pāṇini | ... Pakistan, the language of the masses was refined by the ancient grammarian | , who set the rules of a structurally rigorous language called Sanskrit wh ... |
| James Q. Wilson | The broken windows theory was first introduced by social scientists | and George L. Kelling, in an article titled "Broken Windows" and which app ... |
| Nicholas Callan | ... ype of transformer to see wide use was the induction coil, invented by Rev. | of Maynooth College, Ireland in 1836. He was one of the first researchers ... |
| Pliny | ... (rather than topazios) wasn't really known about before the classical era. | says that Topazos is a legendary island in the Red Sea and the mineral "to ... |
| Aldous Huxley | ... as first exposed to and became interested in Eastern religions when he read | ’s Ends and Means in 1937, the year before his conversion to Catholicism. ... |
| O.F. Müller | In 1786, | gave a more complete description of the organism, which he named Cercaria ... |
| Derrick Norman Lehmer | ... owever, many mathematicians did consider the number 1 a prime. For example, | 's list of primes up to 10,006,721, reprinted as late as 1956, started wit ... |
| Karl Weierstrass | ... it would be 150 years later, through the work of Augustin Louis Cauchy and | , where a means was finally found to avoid mere "notions" of infinitely sm ... |
| Jeffrey Meldrum | ... maintain a breeding population. A few scientists, such as Jane Goodall and | , have expressed interest and belief in the creature, with Meldrum express ... |
| Benjamin Franklin | On September 27, 1786, Mason wrote to | that he had returned to Philadelphia with his wife, seven sons, and one da ... |
| Johann Mattheson | ... mberg musical tradition, who had been at one time a pupil of Johann Staden. | , whose Grundlage einer Ehrenpforte (Hamburg, 1740) is one of the most imp ... |
| Zora Neale Hurston | ... k themes), including Eugene O'Neill, James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, | and Orson Welles |
| D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson | ... la and Henry Nottidge Moseley described the mathematics of univalve shells. | 's On Growth and Form gives extensive treatment to these spirals. He descr ... |
| René Descartes | ... calculus. They drew on the work of such mathematicians as Isaac Barrow and | . Infinitesimal calculus consists of differential calculus and integral ca ... |
| Jane Goodall | ... ught necessary to maintain a breeding population. A few scientists, such as | and Jeffrey Meldrum, have expressed interest and belief in the creature, w ... |
| John Maynard Keynes | ... xter White, Secretary of the Treasury and Henry Morgenthau), but opposed by | , head of the British delegation. The disagreement led to Chase Bank repre ... |
| Heraclitus | ... ato and Aristotle is attributed not to Pythagoras, but to the Pythagoreans. | stated that he was a man of extensive learning; and Xenophanes claimed tha ... |
| Mary Pickford | ... was Catholic. Fairbanks was the son of Douglas Fairbanks and the stepson of | , who were considered Hollywood royalty. Fairbanks Sr. and Pickford were o ... |
| Plato | Much debate over both the nature and value of rhetoric begins with Gorgias. | ’s dialogue entitled Gorgias presents a counter-argument to Gorgias’ embra ... |
| Nevil Maskelyne | ... 's Lunar Tables. He also contributed to the Nautical Almanac, working under | , Astronomer Royal |
| Theodosius Dobzhansky | | , a Ukrainian emigrant, who had been a postdoctoral worker in Morgan's fru ... |
| Plato | ... stronomy are claimed to have been frequented by Orpheus, Homer, Pythagoras, | , Solon, and other Greek philosophers. From Ichonuphys, who was lecturing ... |
| Johannes Oporinus | Later that year Vesalius asked | to help publish the seven-volume De humani corporis fabrica (On the fabric ... |
| Paul Ehrlich | ... as sitting between that of Morgagni whose work Virchow studied, and that of | , who studied at the Charité while Virchow was developing microscopic path ... |
| Fons Trompenaars | ... ns. For instance humanity includes love, kindness, and social intelligence. | , author of Did the Pedestrian Die?, tested members of different cultures ... |
| Joseph Henry | ... ectromagnetic induction was discovered independently by Michael Faraday and | in 1831. However, Faraday was the first to publish the results of his expe ... |
| Rand Dyck | Political scientist | , in observing these criticisms, notes that while judges have had their sc ... |
| Thrasyllus | ... 80th Olympiad (460–457 BC) according to Apollodorus of Athens, and although | placed his birth in 470 BC, the later date is probably more likely. John B ... |
| Hiroshi Okamura | This variant was proved by | in 1947 |
| Albert Einstein | ... he wrote a PhD thesis on adsorption. His research, which was encouraged by | , was supervised by Gusztáv Buchböck, and in 1919 the University of Budape ... |
| Joan Crawford | ... ding Craig's Wife (1936) (which would be the film's second of three remakes | ;did the third) and The Citadel (1938). Russell was first acclaimed when s ... |
| Steven N. S. Cheung | ... Lau Tak Wahalthough some people prefer American-style middle names, such as | , or simply use English names like Henry Lee. On official records such as ... |
| Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac | ... s hydrogen peroxide. Sodium peroxide was synthesized in 1811 by Thénard and | . The bleaching effect of peroxides and their salts on natural dyes became ... |
| Friedrich Kekulé | During his work with | in Bonn he started a systematic analysis of the terpenes present in essent ... |
| Leopold Kronecker | ... ity of Stuttgart) and then in 1877 went to Berlin where he was a student of | , Karl Weierstraß, and Ernst Kummer |
| Fredric Hasselquist | ... , having eaten four of the "prickly" melons. (Chapter XX, The Storm Cloud). | , in his travels in Asia Minor, Egypt, Cyprus and Palestine in the 18th ce ... |
| Claude Shannon | ... al engineer before proceeding to mathematics and later theoretical physics. | , a theoretical engineer, founded modern information theory |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... Pintasilgo becoming the first woman Prime Minister of Portugal in 1979, and | becoming the first woman Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1979. Bot ... |
| Hyginus | ... as grandson of the eponymous Phylacos, he was the leader of the Phylaceans. | surmised that he was originally known as Iolaus—not to be confused with Io ... |
| Michel Rolle | ... unrigorous and was fiercely criticized by a number of authors, most notably | and Bishop Berkeley. Berkeley described infinitesimals in his book The Ana ... |
| Joseph Weber | ... ronomy to complement electromagnetic telescopes and neutrino observatories. | pioneered the effort to detect gravitational waves in the 1960s through hi ... |
| Eratosthenes | ... arth is a sphere ("round"), was generally known by all, and around 240 BCE, | (276 BCE – 194 BCE) accurately estimated its circumference. In contrast to ... |
| F. G. Donnan | ... College, London, under Professors Sir William Ramsay, W. C. McC. Lewis, and | , taking his B.Sc. degree in 1913. He was particularly interested in worki ... |
| Edith Evans | ... actresses in the female roles. Gielgud engaged Peggy Ashcroft as Juliet and | as the nurse, who played the same roles three years later in his legendary ... |
| Maria Mourani | ... liament in this election were incumbents Louis Plamondon, André Bellavance, | and rookie MP Jean-François Fortin. When the 41st Canadian Parliament conv ... |
| Karl Polanyi | ... lectuals and which continued until her death in 1939. His older brother was | , the political economist |
| Milton Friedman | ... of the United States' GNP and exports were only 5.0%. Monetarists, such as | , who emphasize the central role of the money supply in causing the depres ... |
| Albert Einstein | In his famous work on special relativity in 1905, | predicted that when two clocks were brought together and synchronized, and ... |
| John Wallis | ... ntly developed by Gottfried Leibniz and Isaac Newton starting in the 1660s. | exploited an infinitesimal he denoted \tfrac{1}{\infty} in area calculatio ... |
| Pythagoras | ... osophy and astronomy are claimed to have been frequented by Orpheus, Homer, | , Plato, Solon, and other Greek philosophers. From Ichonuphys, who was lec ... |
| John von Neumann | ... the brain as essentially a digital computer in disguise, as for example in | 's 1958 book, The Computer and the Brain. Over the years, though, accumula ... |
| Karl Marx's | ... n, thinking it to be from the book of Acts. Ironically, the quote is wholly | , but does exist partially within the Bible (Acts 11:29 & Matthew 25:15) |
| Jean Pierre Mégnin | ... terest in arthropods and death, Song Ci, Francesco Redi, Bergeret d’Arbois, | and the German doctor Hermann Reinhard have helped to lay the foundations ... |
| Eugenio Espejo | Famous authors from the late colonial and early republic period include: | a printer and main author of the first newspaper in Ecuadorian colonial ti ... |
| Judith Donath | In academic literature, the practice of trolling was first documented by | (1999). Donath's paper outlines the ambiguity of identity in a disembodied ... |
| Isaac Newton | It was independently developed by Gottfried Leibniz and | starting in the 1660s. John Wallis exploited an infinitesimal he denoted \ ... |
| Aristotle | ... e elements called atoms. This was elaborated in great detail by Democritus. | (, Aristotélēs) (384 BCE – 322 BCE), a student of Plato, promoted the conc ... |
| Aristotle | ... rical, political, or other. A number of these are referred to and quoted by | , including a speech on Hellenic unity, a funeral oration for Athenians fa ... |
| Stephen Cole Kleene | ... ome being intuitive". (Turing 1939, reprinted in Davis 2004, p. 210) Later, | brought forth a more rational consideration of intuitionism in his Introdu ... |
| Francesco Redi | ... hrough their own experiments and interest in arthropods and death, Song Ci, | , Bergeret d’Arbois, Jean Pierre Mégnin and the German doctor Hermann Rein ... |
| Grace Hopper | ... s in high demand during the war and the funds ($50,000 or more according to | ) could have been used to build additional computer equipment |
| James Hepburn | ... ish language and American culture in a private school run by the missionary | (the forerunner of Meiji Gakuin University, and went abroad with a son of ... |
| Avi Wigderson | László Babai, Lance Fortnow, Noam Nisan, and | showed that unless EXPTIME collapses to MA, BPP is contained in i.o.-SUBEX ... |
| Alexander von Humboldt | ... county derived its name from Humboldt Bay, which in turn is named the after | , a famous German naturalist. The first recorded entry of Humboldt Bay by ... |
| Leonardo da Vinci | ... accidentally transported back in time to the 15th century; there they meet | and, upon realising which age they are in, travel to Spain to try to stop ... |
| Robert Resnick | ... he restated and elaborated on this result as printed below, (with physicist | 's comments following Einstein's) |
| David Marks | | and John Colwell, writing in the Skeptical Inquirer (2000), criticized the ... |
| Alan Turing | ... l offered opinions referred to as Platonist (see various sources re Gödel). | considers |
| Michael Faraday | ... process now known as electrolysis. Their work was greatly expanded upon by | in 1833. Current through a resistance causes localised heating, an effect ... |
| Plato | Aristotle (, Aristotélēs) (384 BCE – 322 BCE), a student of | , promoted the concept that observation of physical phenomena could ultima ... |
| Jack Layton | ... privately met with BQ leader Gilles Duceppe and New Democratic Party leader | in a Montreal hotel. The meeting took place between the three party leader ... |
| Isaac Barrow | ... ound for integral calculus. They drew on the work of such mathematicians as | and René Descartes. Infinitesimal calculus consists of differential calcul ... |
| Buckminster Fuller | "High Tech" architecture moved forward as | continued his experiments in geodesic domes while the George Pompidou Cent ... |
| Mircea Eliade | ... 33 and qualified as a teacher of French. While there he met Emil Cioran and | , and the three became lifelong friends |
| Hume | ... s a metaphysician he starts from what he terms the higher scepticism of the | -Kantian sphere of thought, the beginnings of which he discerns in Locke's ... |
| Oskar Kolberg | Polish folk music was collected in the 19th century by | , as part of a wave of Polish national revival. With the coming of the wor ... |
| James Weldon Johnson | ... as well as white writers exploring black themes), including Eugene O'Neill, | , Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston and Orson Welles |
| Eugene Parker | The idea that nanoflares might heat the corona was put forward by | in the 1980s but is still controversial. In particular, ultraviolet telesc ... |
| Ernst Haeckel | ... the question of where to put such "unclassifiable" creatures that prompted | to add a third kingdom to the Animale and Vegetabile of Linnaeus: the King ... |
| Rachel Carson | ... rmation of the environmental issues early activists from the 1960s, such as | and Murray Bookchin had warned of. The moon landing that had occurred at t ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... 987 general election, in the hope of ousting the Conservative government of | |
| Hermann Reinhard | ... Francesco Redi, Bergeret d’Arbois, Jean Pierre Mégnin and the German doctor | have helped to lay the foundations for today's modern forensic entomology |
| Bruce Ellis | | did the code and Rob Pike did the design. Don P. Mitchell wrote the Markov ... |
| Kurt Gödel | ... ist position and David Hilbert the formalist position — see van Heijenoort. | offered opinions referred to as Platonist (see various sources re Gödel). ... |
| Max Born | ... not the acceleration per se. Explanations put forth by Albert Einstein and | invoked gravitational time dilation to explain the aging as a direct effec ... |
| Interstate Commerce Commission | ... ss, by 1890 the Republicans had agreed to the Sherman Antitrust Act and the | in response to complaints from owners of small businesses and farmers. The ... |
| John Ward | ... ary, view on this topic is given by the famous British-Australian physicist | . In 1990 the university absorbed the Institute of Early Childhood Studies ... |
| Lance Fortnow | László Babai, | , Noam Nisan, and Avi Wigderson showed that unless EXPTIME collapses to MA ... |
| Greenberg, Joseph | ... sound values of the sibilants will also use the conventional symbols, e.g. | , The Patterning of Root Morphemes in Semitic. 1990. P.379. In: On languag ... |
| Kechris | ... analytic sets. For more details see descriptive set theory and the book by | , especially Exercise (27.2) on page 209, Definition (22.9) on page 169, a ... |
| Plato | ... e two were inseparable, reading together the best Greek authors, especially | , and discussing, either during their walks by the sea-shore and the banks ... |
| Ptolemy | ... d by Apollonius of Perga at the end of the 3rd century BC and formalized by | of the Thebaid in his 2nd-century AD astronomical treatise the Almagest. I ... |
| David Hilbert | ... wentieth century L. E. J. Brouwer represented the intuitionist position and | the formalist position — see van Heijenoort. Kurt Gödel offered opinions r ... |
| James Heath | ... terfullerene (C 60 ), was prepared in 1985 by Richard Smalley, Robert Curl, | , Sean O'Brien, and Harold Kroto at Rice University. The name was an homag ... |
| Gough Whitlam | ... hteenth Governor-General of Australia. He dismissed the Labor government of | on 11 November 1975, marking the climax of the most significant constituti ... |
| Dmitri Mendeleev | | , creator of the periodic table, predicted the existence of an element eka ... |
| Jerome Keisler | ... meaningful, building upon work by Edwin Hewitt and Jerzy Łoś. According to | , "Robinson solved a three hundred year old problem by giving a precise tr ... |
| Ptolemy | ... 4), Strabo (xvii. p. 802), Mela (i. 9 § 9), Pliny the Elder (v. 10. s. 12), | (iv. 5. § 51), and Stephanus of Byzantium (s. v.). The city was the capita ... |
| Roger Bacon | ... قيه (hikmat-al-mashriqqiyya, in Latin Philosophia Orientalis), mentioned by | , the majority of which is lost in antiquity, which according to Averroes ... |
| Blaise Pascal | ... to the latter movement of Jansenism and the Port-Royal theologians such as | |
| László Babai | ... ertain inputs irrespective of the seed (though these inputs might be rare). | , Lance Fortnow, Noam Nisan, and Avi Wigderson showed that unless EXPTIME ... |
| Robert E. Lucas, Jr. | ... rld's population increased over sixfold. In the words of Nobel Prize winner | , "For the first time in history, the living standards of the masses of or ... |
| Richard Dawkins | ... th the title mimicking the controversial book by one of Sheldrake's critics | , who wrote The God Delusion. [In an interview with Fortean Times, Sheldra ... |
| Rob Pike | Bruce Ellis did the code and | did the design. Don P. Mitchell wrote the Markov chain code, demonstrating ... |
| Hans Christian Ørsted | ... the most important discoveries relating to current was made accidentally by | in 1820, when, while preparing a lecture, he witnessed the current in a wi ... |
| Apollonius of Perga | ... the apparent motion of the Moon, Sun, and planets. It was first proposed by | at the end of the 3rd century BC and formalized by Ptolemy of the Thebaid ... |
| Mayrhofer | ... ek (hélos) ‘swamp’, the Rigvedic term refers mostly to stagnant waters, and | considers unlikely a connection with the root * ‘run, flow’ |
| Copernicus | ... sks their reputation by committing to a hypothesis. He gives the example of | , who declared that, contrary to our experience, the Earth revolves around ... |
| Louis François Etienne Bergeret | Dr | (1814–1893) was a French hospital physician, and was the first to apply fo ... |
| Spock | ... kerous McCoy frequently argues with Kirk's other confidant, science officer | , and occasionally is bigoted toward Spock's Vulcan heritage. McCoy often ... |
| Gottfried Leibniz | It was independently developed by | and Isaac Newton starting in the 1660s. John Wallis exploited an infinites ... |
| George Abraham Grierson | In 1919 | wrote that “Kashmiri is the only one of the Dardic languages that has a li ... |
| Georgius Agricola | ... re metallica in 1912. This translation from the Latin of Renaissance author | is still the most important scholarly version and provides its historical ... |
| Plato | ... second of his two works entitled Cyrus, on Gorgias in his Archelaus and on | in his Satho. His style was pure and elegant, and Theopompus even said tha ... |
| Edward Teller's | ... along with Stanislaw Ulam, calculated that the amount of tritium needed for | model of a thermonuclear weapon would be prohibitive, and a fusion reactio ... |
| Michael Pillsbury | ... IA was not doing enough to support the Mujahideen in the Soviet Afghan war. | , Vincent Cannistraro, and others put enormous bureaucratic pressure on th ... |
| Patañjali | ... or deficient in quantity, a failure of conception results." Indian linguist | 's work on Sanskrit grammar, the Mahābhāṣya (c. 200 BC), states that Sansk ... |
| Stephanus of Byzantium | ... Mela (i. 9 § 9), Pliny the Elder (v. 10. s. 12), Ptolemy (iv. 5. § 51), and | (s. v.). The city was the capital of the Mendesian nome, situated at the p ... |
| Democritus | ... , indivisible elements called atoms. This was elaborated in great detail by | |
| Béla Bartók | Cell z is also one of the basic cells in | 's String Quartet No. 4 |
| Zora Neale Hurston | ... e Hurston", published in Ms Magazine, helped revive interest in the work of | , who inspired Walker's writing and subject matter. In 1973, Walker and fe ... |
| Kamoya Kimeu | Turkana Boy — discovered by | , a member of the Leakeys' team in 1984 — was the nearly complete skeleton ... |
| Magneto | ... he "Acts of Vengeance" conspiracy, but was attacked by the mutant terrorist | , a Holocaust survivor who wanted to punish him for his involvement in Hit ... |
| Ellen DeGeneres | In 1997 on The Oprah Winfrey Show, actress | came out as a lesbian. Her real-life coming out was echoed in the sitcom E ... |
| Angela Merkel | ... ay never happen again," Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit said. German Chancellor | —who grew up behind the wall in Germany's communist eastern part—also atte ... |
| Lewis Carroll | ... usually Achilles and the tortoise, first used by Zeno of Elea and later by | in "What the Tortoise Said to Achilles". These origins are related in the ... |
| James Prescott Joule | ... y in 1833. Current through a resistance causes localised heating, an effect | studied mathematically in 1840. One of the most important discoveries rela ... |
| Sewall Wright | ... as the development of population genetics. R.A. Fisher, J.B.S. Haldane, and | provided critical contributions. In 1918, Fisher produced the paper "The C ... |
| Alexander Hamilton | ... he 2010 census, the city population was 268. The city was named in honor of | , first Secretary of the Treasury |
| Hermann Reinhard | The first systematic study in forensic entomology was conducted in 1881 by | , a German medical doctor who played a vital role in the history of forens ... |
| Bertrand Russell | ... ics to a logical formulation via set theory and its derailing by a youthful | , the discoverer of Russell's paradox. Frege had planned a three volume de ... |
| Max von Laue | ... ause "any change of velocity, or any acceleration has an absolute meaning". | (1911, 1913) elaborated on Langevin's explanation. Using Minkowski's space ... |
| Pierre François Verhulst | ... -time demographic model analogous to the logistic equation first created by | . The difference equation is intended to capture the two effects of reprod ... |
| Ludwig Boltzmann | ... cribed by James Clerk Maxwell and later described with fewer assumptions by | . Instead it is close to Boltzmann's later approach of 1877 |
| George Bernard Shaw | Wilde was the sole literary signatory of | 's petition for a pardon of the anarchists arrested (and later executed) a ... |
| Félix Dujardin | ... glenas flagella, however. The first to publish a record of this feature was | , who added "filament flagelliforme" to the descriptive criteria of the ge ... |
| Lawrence Kohlberg | ... he development of morals, usually going through stages of different morals. | , Jean Piaget, and Elliot Turiel have cognitive-developmental approaches t ... |
| Carl Correns | Gregor Mendel's work was re-discovered by Hugo de Vries and | in 1900. News of this reached William Bateson in England, who reported on ... |
| Karl Marx | ... thus maximise their profits, an opinion shared by the socialist Chartists. | said: "The campaign for the abolition of the Corn Laws had begun and the w ... |
| James Clerk Maxwell | One could argue, based on the work of | , that the transport definition precedes the more recent way the term is u ... |
| Stephanus of Byzantium | ... us Mela, iii. 8. The city also merits attention by the Byzantine geographer | , s. v. |
| Benjamin Franklin | ... ve, and that by protons positive, a custom that originated with the work of | . The amount of charge is usually given the symbol Q and expressed in coul ... |
| Buffon | ... 1801. The bulk of his work was in illustrating scientific books by Basedow, | , Lavater, Pestalozzi and others. He also painted many portraits of Polish ... |
| Thibault Damour | are Louis Michel, Jürg Fröhlich, David Ruelle, | , Nikita Nekrasov |
| Alfred Korzybski | While teaching at the University of Florida, | counseled his students to eliminate the infinitive and verb forms of "to b ... |
| Daniel Patrick Moynihan | Introduced by Senator | , Section 1706 added a subsection(d) to Section 530 of the Revenue Act of ... |
| Oliver Stone | ... in 2003 but not released until 2005. Kilmer next appeared in the big budget | production, Alexander, which received poor reviews. Also in 2004, Kilmer r ... |
| Stephen Harper | ... da's interests over softwood and other issues. Wilkins, Conservative Leader | , and NDP leader Jack Layton accused Martin of orchestrating a row with th ... |
| Nick Cave | The 1980s saw a breakthrough in the independence of Australian rock— | said that before the 80s, "Australia still needed America or England to te ... |
| Marin Mersenne | ... nd in fact no further Fermat numbers are known to be prime. The French monk | looked at primes of the form 2 p − 1, with p a prime. They are called Mer ... |
| Georg Klebs | In 1881, | made a primary taxonomical distinction between green and colorless flagell ... |
| Thales | ... ece (650 BCE – 480 BCE) with the Pre-Socratic philosophers. The philosopher | (7th and 6 centuries BCE), dubbed "the Father of Science" for refusing to ... |
| William Ramsay | ... e continued his studies at University College, London, under Professors Sir | , W. C. McC. Lewis, and F. G. Donnan, taking his B.Sc. degree in 1913. He ... |
| Cristián Samper | ... impact of global warming on the Arctic. Acting Secretary of the Smithsonian | was interviewed by the Post, and claimed the exhibit was edited because it ... |
| Jan Smuts | ... ns was repealed and all Indian political prisoners were released by General | |
| Avicenna | ... gians: for example, Alhazen and al-Biruni were mutakallimiin; the physician | was a hafiz; the physician Ibn al-Nafis was a hafiz, muhaddith and ulema; ... |
| Mircea Eliade | | discussed initiation as a principal religious act by classical or traditio ... |
| Daniel G. Bobrow | The developer team – amongst them Daniel Murphy and | – chose the name TENEX (TEN-EXtended) for the new system. It included a fu ... |
| L. L. Zamenhof | ... national auxiliary language Esperanto was developed in the 1870s and 80s by | , and first published in 1887. The number of speakers has grown gradually ... |
| Charles Sherrington | ... of the brain as a dynamic entity. Reflecting the new understanding, in 1942 | visualized the workings of the brain waking from sleep |
| Anthony D. Smith | ... language. They are part of a group of pre-modern ethnicities, described by | as an "archetypal diaspora people" |
| Pliny the Elder | ... ii. 42, 46. 166), Diodorus (i. 84), Strabo (xvii. p. 802), Mela (i. 9 § 9), | (v. 10. s. 12), Ptolemy (iv. 5. § 51), and Stephanus of Byzantium (s. v.). ... |
| John William Draper | ... he long exposure meant the photograph came out as an indistinct fuzzy spot. | , an American physician, chemist and scientific experimenter, managed to m ... |
| Vito Volterra | ... xplained in terms of the theory of dislocations which had been developed by | in 1905. The insight was critical in developing the field of solid mechani ... |
| William James | In 1884 | described a two-stage model of free will: in the first stage the mind deve ... |
| William Bateson | ... -discovered by Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns in 1900. News of this reached | in England, who reported on the paper during a presentation to the Royal H ... |
| Michel Mayor | On 6 October 1995, | and Didier Queloz of the University of Geneva announced the first definiti ... |
| Mitchell Feigenbaum | ... xamples of models for dynamical systems. Named after mathematical physicist | , the two Feigenbaum constants appear in such iterative processes: they ar ... |
| Trofim Lysenko | ... happened to the study of genetics in the Soviet Union once the doctrines of | gained the backing of the State. Demands in Britain, amongst people such a ... |
| James Clerk Maxwell | Following is a derivation wildly different from the derivation described by | and later described with fewer assumptions by Ludwig Boltzmann. Instead it ... |
| Jack Layton | ... d other issues. Wilkins, Conservative Leader Stephen Harper, and NDP leader | accused Martin of orchestrating a row with the US in order to garner publi ... |
| Pliny | ... yrus the Great (558–530 BC), or in the first year of Darius I. According to | 's evidence, Cyrus the Great (Cyrus II) had destroyed Kapisa in Capiscene ... |
| Henri Poincaré | ... option. A number of other thinkers have since refined this idea, including | , Arthur Holly Compton, Karl Popper, Henry Margenau, Robert Kane, Alfred M ... |
| Leucippus | ... ons for natural phenomena, proclaimed that every event had a natural cause. | (first half of 5th century BCE), developed the theory of atomism – the ide ... |
| Condillac | ... me, his Duty, and his Expectations was published in 1749, three years after | 's Essai sur l'origine des connaissances humaines, in which similar theori ... |
| Lars Fredrik Nilson | ... ence of an element ekaboron, with an atomic mass between 40 and 48 in 1869. | and his team detected this element in the minerals euxenite and gadolinite ... |
| John Stuart Mill | ... e Baconian method was further developed and promoted by English philosopher | . His 1843 book, A System of Logic, was an effort to shed further light on ... |
| Manmohan Singh | ... parade in Surrey, saying it was a glorification of terrorism. In 2008, Dr. | , Prime Minister of India, expressed his concern that there might be a res ... |
| Gene Amdahl | At IBM, a small team at Poughkeepsie including John Griffith and | worked on the design proposal. Just after they finished and were about to ... |
| Didier Queloz | On 6 October 1995, Michel Mayor and | of the University of Geneva announced the first definitive detection of an ... |
| Pierre Raymond de Montmort | ... of , discovered in part by Jacob Bernoulli along with French mathematician | , is in the problem of derangements, also known as the hat check problem. ... |
| Paul Langevin | In 1911, | gave a "striking example" by describing the story of a traveler making a t ... |
| Egon Orowan | ... tion analysis. In 1934, Polanyi, at about the same time as G. I. Taylor and | , realised that the plastic deformation of ductile materials could be expl ... |
| Arthur Koestler | ... f extrasensory perception. Paranormal writers and parapsychologists such as | , Brian Inglis and John L. Randall have supported the work of Sheldrake |
| Edward Teller | Dr. | at the University of California Radiation Laboratory in Livermore, Califor ... |
| James Clerk Maxwell | The distribution is named after | and Ludwig Boltzmann |
| Francis Lieber | ... the 7th ed. of the German Conversations-Lexicon was founded by German-born | . After Dobson's Encyclopædia (1789–1798), it was the first significant Am ... |
| Joseph Campbell | ... read as to suggest a very ancient origin of the practice. See, for example, | 's map in his The Historical Atlas of World Mythology [Vol I: The Way of t ... |
| Mark Thornton | ... es that were too big and intertwined to fail. Economists Robert Ekelund and | have also criticized the Act as contributing to the crisis. They state tha ... |
| Thomas Kuhn | ... ip to study philosophy and history at Harvard University at around the time | 's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) was published, which he ... |
| Pierre Wantzel | ... ch tools, the task of angle trisection is generally impossible, as shown by | (1837). Wantzel's proof relies on ideas from the field of Galois theory—in ... |
| Alan Hodgkin | ... igation of the electrical properties of nerve cells, culminating in work by | , Andrew Huxley, and others on the biophysics of the action potential, and ... |
| Milton Friedman | ... conomies from the start of the decade, and partly because of critiques from | and other economists who were pessimistic about the ability of governments ... |
| Ptolemy | It is called Ptolemaic after the Greek astronomer | , although it had been developed by previous Greek astronomers such as Apo ... |
| Gregor Mendel | | 's work was re-discovered by Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns in 1900. News ... |
| Archimedes | ... egan in Antiquity with the Babylonians and with Hellenistic writers such as | and Ptolemy. Meanwhile, philosophy, including what was called “physics”, f ... |
| Plato | In | 's Symposium, written around the 4th century BC, Aristophanes relates a cr ... |
| David Ricardo | ... Adam Smith with the publication of The Wealth of Nations in 1776 and later | with his explanation of comparative advantage. Mercantilism was rejected b ... |
| Frank Morley | These uses of the conjugate of z as a variable are illustrated in | 's book Inversive Geometry (1933), written with his son Frank Vigor Morley |
| Sigmund Freud | ... n order to access his unconscious mind, a concept only later popularized by | |
| Elliot Turiel | ... ing through stages of different morals. Lawrence Kohlberg, Jean Piaget, and | have cognitive-developmental approaches to moral development; to these the ... |
| John Latham | Described scientifically by English naturalist | in 1790, the Black Swan was formerly placed into a monotypic genus, Chenop ... |
| Ludwig Boltzmann | The distribution is named after James Clerk Maxwell and | |
| Jacob Bernoulli | For example, the Swiss mathematician | discovered that arises in compound interest: An account that starts at $1, ... |
| Robert Ekelund | ... the way for companies that were too big and intertwined to fail. Economists | and Mark Thornton have also criticized the Act as contributing to the cris ... |
| David Bohm | ... 's ideas have resonated with the general public and some physicists such as | . The idea that fields may influence cells has even received cautious supp ... |
| Lee Teng-hui | ... d allowed native Taiwanese into positions of power, including his successor | |
| Mikhail Lomonosov | ... biogenic theory was first introduced by Georg Agricola in 1556 and later by | in the 18th century |
| John James Audubon | ... . The average weight of these pigeons was 340–400 grams (12–14 oz) and, per | 's account, length was 42 cm (16.5 in) in males and 38 cm (15 in) in femal ... |
| David Ruelle | are Louis Michel, Jürg Fröhlich, | , Thibault Damour, Nikita Nekrasov |
| Meave Leakey | Richard shifted away from paleontology in 1989, but his wife | and daughter Louise Leakey still continue paleontological research in Nort ... |
| Sigmund Freud | ... vel Coraline, where he argues that the work plays and riffs productively on | 's notion of the Uncanny, or the Unheimlich |
| Lev Vygotsky | ... slowly learn to understand and think about them on higher, abstract levels. | suggested that mental functions, such as concepts, language, voluntary att ... |
| Jean-Baptiste Colbert | Mercantilist policies have included: | 's work in seventeenth century France exemplified classical mercantilism. ... |
| Per Teodor Cleve | ... "Scandinavia". Nilson was apparently unaware of Mendeleev's prediction, but | recognized the correspondence and notified Mendeleev |
| Jürg Fröhlich | are Louis Michel, | , David Ruelle, Thibault Damour, Nikita Nekrasov |
| Clair Wilcox | ... TFG Wood, Frank Graham, Ernest Patterson, Henry Seager, Frank Taussig, and | . Automobile executive Henry Ford spent an evening at the White House tryi ... |
| Edward Jenner | ... he husband of Anne Hunter, a teacher, and friend of, and collaborator with, | , the inventor of the smallpox vaccine |
| Franz Boas | ... awarded the Copley Medal. Among his most famous students was anthropologist | , who became a professor at Columbia University |
| Apollonius of Perga | ... olemy, although it had been developed by previous Greek astronomers such as | and Hipparchus of Rhodes, who used it extensively, during the second centu ... |
| Rutherford's | ... i had been born a few years earlier, one could well imagine him discovering | atomic nucleus, and then developing Bohr's theory of the hydrogen atom. If ... |
| Adam Smith | ... al mercantilism. In the English-speaking world its ideas were criticized by | with the publication of The Wealth of Nations in 1776 and later David Rica ... |
| Joseph Campbell | ... thic archetypes regarding initiation and male coming-of-age as described by | . Chance compares the development and growth of Bilbo against other charac ... |
| José Rizal | ... usiness district, as an honor and dedication to the country's national hero | , who was executed in the same place where the park was created by the Spa ... |
| Hugo de Vries | Gregor Mendel's work was re-discovered by | and Carl Correns in 1900. News of this reached William Bateson in England, ... |
| Philip Rubin | ... atory experiments was developed at Haskins Laboratories in the mid-1970s by | , Tom Baer, and Paul Mermelstein. This synthesizer, known as ASY, was base ... |
| Sir Patrick Moore | ... fle Woman, Leslie Phillips as Hactar, Saeed Jaffrey as the Man on the Pole, | as himself, and Christian Slater as Wonko the Sane. Finally, Adams himself ... |
| Samuel Pierpont Langley | ... t electrical resistance. It was invented in 1878 by the American astronomer | . The name comes from the Greek word bole (βολή), for something thrown, as ... |
| Louise Leakey | ... fted away from paleontology in 1989, but his wife Meave Leakey and daughter | still continue paleontological research in Northern Kenya |
| David Hume | ... , was elected for the first time. Peel had studied the works of Adam Smith, | and Ricardo and proclaimed during 1839: "I have read all that has been wri ... |
| Gopal Krishna Gokhale | ... had brought with them were required to alleviate many of India's problems. | , a veteran Congressman and Indian leader, became Gandhi's mentor. Gandhi' ... |
| Ptolemy | ... ty with the Babylonians and with Hellenistic writers such as Archimedes and | . Meanwhile, philosophy, including what was called “physics”, focused on e ... |
| John Evelyn | ... fonts for their classical books; he had these made in Holland. He assisted | in his Numismata. Bentley did not settle down to the steady execution of a ... |
| Jean Piaget | ... orals, usually going through stages of different morals. Lawrence Kohlberg, | , and Elliot Turiel have cognitive-developmental approaches to moral devel ... |
| Howard H. Aiken | The electromechanical ASCC was devised by | , built at IBM and shipped to Harvard in February 1944. It began computati ... |
| Ibn al-Nafis | ... iruni were mutakallimiin; the physician Avicenna was a hafiz; the physician | was a hafiz, muhaddith and ulema; the botanist Otto Brunfels was a theolog ... |
| Isaac Newton | ... o flow". As fluxion, this term was introduced into differential calculus by | |
| Philippe Kahn | ... utor for Microsoft products in Denmark which put them at odds with Borland. | and Anders first met in 1986. For all those years, , one of Borland's foun ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | ... s created by J. R. R. Tolkien. Enya has performed several songs relating to | 's The Lord of the Rings, including 1991's "Lothlórien" (instrumental), an ... |
| Irving Fisher | ... asking President Hoover to veto the legislation, organized by Paul Douglas, | , James TFG Wood, Frank Graham, Ernest Patterson, Henry Seager, Frank Taus ... |
| Joan Crawford | ... the result, that he relented and gave her the role. The original choice was | , who purportedly never forgave Shearer for usurping the role |
| John Napier | ... us, with its crested skull and bipedal gait, was suggested by primatologist | and anthropologist Gordon Strasenburg as a possible candidate for Bigfoot' ... |
| Hipparchus | ... een developed by previous Greek astronomers such as Apollonius of Perga and | of Rhodes, who used it extensively, during the second century BC, almost t ... |
| Sir Peter Scott | ... erland and Mongolia) have joined the IWC. This shift was first initiated by | , the then head of the World Wildlife Fund. Labelling the IWC a "butchers' ... |
| Melvin Calvin | ... istry at the University of Manchester. Two of his pupils, Eugene Wigner and | , went on to win a Nobel Prize. The focus of his interests began to turn t ... |
| Malcolm Fraser | ... ition, and that Whitlam was dominating him in the House of Representatives. | challenged Snedden for the leadership, and defeated him on 21 March |
| Paul Samuelson | ... unlikely to produce cotton cloth if the cotton had to be grown in England." | coined a term Sraffa bonus to name the gains from trade of inputs |
| Alexander Afanasyev | ... Korsakov's interest in pantheism was whetted by the folkloristic studies of | . That author's standard work, The Poetic Outlook on Nature by the Slavs, ... |
| Maclaurin | Several mathematicians, including | and d'Alembert, attempted to prove the soundness of using limits, but it w ... |
| Richard Stallman | ... rnel development was a controversial one. Some, notably GNU Project founder | , expressed concern about proprietary tools being used on a flagship free ... |
| Pliny the Elder | ... ephus, Ant. Jud. xiii. 3, C. Apion. i. 26; Cicero, De Natura Deorum iii. 21 | ;, v. 9. § 11; Tacitus, Ann. vi. 28; Pomponius Mela, iii. 8. The city also ... |
| Christof Koch | ... ption from other scientists. Neurophysiologist and consciousness researcher | , for example, has stated that discussing Sheldrake's ideas is a "waste of ... |
| Nicolaus Copernicus | ... s a theologian and historian of Protestantism; the astronomer and physician | was a priest |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | The Gladden Fields (Sindarin Loeg Ningloron) is a location in | 's Middle-earth. In his works, the Gladden Fields are located where the Gl ... |
| Léon Foucault | ... e been first photographed in an 1845 daguerreotype by the French physicists | and Hippolyte Fizeau. The Sun's solar corona was first imaged by a Kalinin ... |
| Christophe Breuil | ... Maxim Kontsevich, Dennis Sullivan and René Thom. The long-term visitors are | , Dirk Kreimer, Ofer Gabber and Christophe Soulé |
| Alfred Russel Wallace | ... ed the term neo-Darwinism to refer to the version of evolution advocated by | and August Weismann with its heavy dependence on natural selection. Weisma ... |
| Richard Dawkins | ... brain size, and in particular the development of theory of mind abilities. | in The God Delusion suggested that our morality is a result of our biologi ... |
| August Weismann | ... to refer to the version of evolution advocated by Alfred Russel Wallace and | with its heavy dependence on natural selection. Weismann and Wallace rejec ... |
| d'Alembert | Several mathematicians, including Maclaurin and | , attempted to prove the soundness of using limits, but it would be 150 ye ... |
| Alfred Korzybski | ... and "equal" that E-Prime often uses to describe precise actions or states. | criticized the use of the verb "to be", and stated that, "Any proposition ... |
| Paul Farmer | According to | , the US administration dismantled the constitutional system, reinstituted ... |
| Walter Bagehot | ... tician James Wilson with help from the Anti-Corn Law League; his son-in-law | later became the editor of this newspaper |
| Andrew Lyne | In 1991 | , M. Bailes and S.L. Shemar claimed to have discovered a pulsar planet in ... |
| Paul Douglas | ... s in the U.S. asking President Hoover to veto the legislation, organized by | , Irving Fisher, James TFG Wood, Frank Graham, Ernest Patterson, Henry Sea ... |
| Jack Layton | ... to attract voters who were leaning towards the NDP, but New Democrat leader | responded by focusing his attacks on Liberal corruption |
| Timothy Leary | ... featured internationally known controversial figures to match the likes of | , Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir and William F. Buckley who had held viewers' a ... |
| Benjamin Robins | English military engineer and mathematician | (1707–1751) invented a whirling arm apparatus to determine drag and did so ... |
| Otto Brunfels | ... ; the physician Ibn al-Nafis was a hafiz, muhaddith and ulema; the botanist | was a theologian and historian of Protestantism; the astronomer and physic ... |
| Elaine Pagels | ... olossians. Proponents of the view that Paul was actually a gnostic, such as | of Princeton University, view the reference in Colossians as something tha ... |
| Bruce Edwards Ivins | ... the 2001 anthrax attacks, the Federal Bureau of Investigation revealed that | was inspired by GEB to hide secret codes based upon nucleotide sequences i ... |
| Eugene Wigner | ... r in physical chemistry at the University of Manchester. Two of his pupils, | and Melvin Calvin, went on to win a Nobel Prize. The focus of his interest ... |
| James Weldon Johnson | ... ncement of Colored People (NAACP). NAACP leaders such as W.E.B. Du Bois and | were frequent guests in the Rustin home. With these influences in his earl ... |
| Pierre de Fermat | ... le happened with the study of prime numbers until the 17th century. In 1640 | stated (without proof) Fermat's little theorem (later proved by Leibniz an ... |
| Noam Chomsky | ... nguistic effects on the brain from the assertion of identity (as in 'is')." | , "[r]egarded as the father of modern linguistics" |
| Dirk Kreimer | ... ennis Sullivan and René Thom. The long-term visitors are Christophe Breuil, | , Ofer Gabber and Christophe Soulé |
| Brian May | ... n Europe. Following one such performance at the Royal Albert Hall Jarre met | , who proposed he create a concert in Tenerife for the International Year ... |
| John C. Frémont | ... d Spanish by José Antonio Carrillo, approved by American Lieutenant-Colonel | and Mexican Governor Andrés Pico on January 13, 1847 at Campo de Cahuenga ... |
| Neeraj Kayal | ... owever, in the 2002 paper PRIMES is in P, Manindra Agrawal and his students | and Nitin Saxena found a deterministic polynomial-time algorithm for this ... |
| Fritz Haber | ... Admiral Horthy régime. In 1920 he returned to Karlsruhe, and was invited by | to join the Kaiser Wilhelm Institut für Faserstoffchemie in Berlin. In 192 ... |
| James Conant | ... d, a coded phone call was made by one of the physicists, Arthur Compton, to | , chairman of the National Defense Research Committee. The conversation wa ... |
| Jean-Baptiste Colbert | ... for Versailles became more of a matter for public record, especially after | assumed the post of finance minister. Expenditures on Versailles have been ... |
| Vannevar Bush | ... osals emerged, one from New Deal Senator Harley M. Kilgore and another from | |
| Jean Decety | ... derstanding, but also in emotion sharing empathy. Cognitive neuro-scientist | thinks that the ability to recognize and vicariously experience what anoth ... |
| Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz | Since 2007 the historic Leibniz Letters, which can be viewed in the | Library, are on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register |
| Kazimierz Kuratowski | ... h as vector spaces, ordered sets, etc. Zorn's lemma was first discovered by | in 1922, and then independently by Zorn in 1935 |
| Anténor Firmin | ... 1892, the German government supported suppression of the reform movement of | . In January 1914, British, German and US forces entered Haiti, ostensibly ... |
| Hippolyte Fizeau | ... graphed in an 1845 daguerreotype by the French physicists Léon Foucault and | . The Sun's solar corona was first imaged by a Kaliningrad daguerreotypist ... |
| Fridtjof Nansen | ... es and was condemned vigorously by a large number of countries. Undeterred, | worked with both Greece and Turkey to gain their acceptance of the propose ... |
| Kip Thorne | ... eriment aiming to directly detect gravitational waves. Cofounded in 1992 by | and Ronald Drever of Caltech and Rainer Weiss of MIT, LIGO is a joint proj ... |
| Richard Stallman | ... rom Common Lisp. It supports imperative and functional programming methods. | chose Lisp as the extension language for his rewrite of Emacs (the origina ... |
| Archimedes | ... two marks a set distance apart. The next construction is originally due to | , called a Neusis construction, i.e., that uses tools other than an un-mar ... |
| Wilhelm Reich | ... rstanding of modern neurobiology. Henry Bauer compared Sheldrake's ideas to | 's generally discredited claims of orgone energies. In his Skeptic's Dicti ... |
| Winckelmann | ... ycurgus, Leocralca (1834) and Oratores Atticae (1838–1850); with Orelli and | , a critical edition of Plato (1839–1842), which marked a distinct advance ... |
| George Bernard Shaw | The Ring has been the subject of myriad interpretations. For example, | , in , argues for a view of The Ring as an essentially socialist critique ... |
| Laura Schlessinger | ... dia Cornell, Brooke Shields, Roddy McDowall and others; Chubby Checker, Dr. | , and Dr. Ruth Westheimer appeared in episodes as themselves |
| James Q. Wilson | The theory was introduced in a 1982 article by social scientists | and George L. Kelling. Since then it has been subject to great debate both ... |
| Jeremiah Dixon | ... ts to determine the distance from the earth to the sun. Mason was joined by | , a surveyor and amateur astronomer from Cockfield in the County of Durham ... |
| Ronald Drever | ... to directly detect gravitational waves. Cofounded in 1992 by Kip Thorne and | of Caltech and Rainer Weiss of MIT, LIGO is a joint project between scient ... |
| Nitin Saxena | ... 02 paper PRIMES is in P, Manindra Agrawal and his students Neeraj Kayal and | found a deterministic polynomial-time algorithm for this problem, thus sho ... |
| Dudley North | ... Smith developed an ideology that could fully replace it. Critics like Hume, | , and John Locke undermined much of mercantilism, and it steadily lost fav ... |
| Dennis Sullivan | ... andre Grothendieck, Oscar Lanford III, Laurent Lafforgue, Maxim Kontsevich, | and René Thom. The long-term visitors are Christophe Breuil, Dirk Kreimer, ... |
| Poul la Cour | Danish inventor | applied wind tunnels in his process of developing and refining the technol ... |
| William Safire | ... sts Joyce Carol Oates, John D. MacDonald, Shirley Jackson, and Alice Sebold | ;, Pulitzer Prize winning commentator; Cambridge historian Sir Moses I. Fi ... |
| Aristarchus of Samos | ... the ground seems still and steady underfoot. Some Greek astronomers (e.g., | ) speculated that the planets (Earth included) orbited the Sun, but the op ... |
| Underwood Dudley | ... ow) involve tools not permitted in the classical problem. The mathematician | has detailed some of these failed attempts in his book The Trisectors |
| Piero Sraffa | Inspired by | , a new strand of trade theory emerged and was named neo-Ricardian trade t ... |
| Aleksander Wolszczan | On 21 April 1992, radio astronomers | and Dale Frail announced the discovery of two planets orbiting the pulsar ... |
| Benjamin Franklin | ... at is at Pasco, which is also the county's largest city. It was named after | |
| Alexander Hamilton | ... t Morris declined this office; thus the first Secretary of the Treasury was | , who was appointed at Morris's suggestion. Morris had held a similar posi ... |
| Manindra Agrawal | ... whether a given number is prime. However, in the 2002 paper PRIMES is in P, | and his students Neeraj Kayal and Nitin Saxena found a deterministic polyn ... |
| Hirohito | ... ntentions on issues of utmost importance to the Japanese, including whether | was to be regarded as one of those who had "misled the people of Japan" or ... |
| Jābir ibn Hayyān | ... s in Southwest Asia existed by the 8th century, at which time the alchemist | , in Kitab al-Durra al-Maknuna, gave 46 recipes for producing coloured gla ... |
| Karl Marx | ... a hypothetical socialist economy is a contested issue. Socialists including | , Robert Owen and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon advocated various forms of labour ... |
| Charles-Augustin de Coulomb | ... other. These phenomena were investigated in the late eighteenth century by | , who deduced that charge manifests itself in two opposing forms. This dis ... |
| Johannes Oporinus | In 1543, Vesalius asked | to help publish the seven-volume De humani corporis fabrica (On the fabric ... |
| Ricardo Maduro | ... H won 55. The PLH candidate Rafael Pineda was defeated by the PNH candidate | , who took office in January 2002. Maduro administration emphasized on sto ... |
| Isaac Newton | ... f I have seen further it is [only] by standing on the shoulders of giants." | |
| George Romanes | ... about whether natural selection alone was sufficient to explain speciation, | coined the term neo-Darwinism to refer to the version of evolution advocat ... |
| Dale Frail | On 21 April 1992, radio astronomers Aleksander Wolszczan and | announced the discovery of two planets orbiting the pulsar PSR 1257+12. Th ... |
| Luigi Canina | ... ich were redecorated in an opulent Italianate style in the Victorian era by | |
| René Thom | ... Oscar Lanford III, Laurent Lafforgue, Maxim Kontsevich, Dennis Sullivan and | . The long-term visitors are Christophe Breuil, Dirk Kreimer, Ofer Gabber ... |
| Maxwell | The original derivation by | assumed all three directions would behave in the same fashion, but a later ... |
| Osborne Reynolds | In a classic set of experiments, the Englishman | (1842–1912) of the University of Manchester demonstrated that the airflow ... |
| Theodor V. Ionescu | ... r was the first show boosted hydrogen device built and tested by physicists | and Vasile Mihu in 1946. Independently, Charles H. Townes, J. P. Gordon, a ... |
| Plato | Such practices are presumably very ancient. | wrote in his Phaedrus that the "first prophecies were the words of an oak" ... |
| Charles Darwin | ... owed the work on the structure and distribution of coral reefs conducted by | in the Pacific. Drilling occurred in 1896, 1897 and 1911. Professor Edgewo ... |
| Arthur Robert Hinks | ... ustus Young. From 1903 to 1905, he worked at the Cambridge Observatory with | as a research assistant of the Carnegie Institution and came under the str ... |
| Heraclitus | ... ociated with that of the Logos, which had originated centuries earlier with | (ca. 535–475 BC). The Logos pervades the cosmos, whereby all thoughts and ... |
| Stéphane Dion | ... he proposed coalition ending up came to nothing, as outgoing Liberal leader | was immediately forced out and replaced by Michael Ignatieff, who quickly ... |
| Bernhard Neumann | ... phism) only countably many finitely generated recursively presented groups. | has shown that there are uncountably many non-isomorphic two generator gro ... |
| Louis Pasteur | In the late 19th century, | , an organic chemist, discovered that microorganisms can cause disease. A ... |
| Linus Pauling | ... francium would almost certainly be a liquid if enough were to be produced. | estimated the electronegativity of francium at 0.7 on the Pauling scale, t ... |
| Maxim Kontsevich | ... khail Gromov, Alexandre Grothendieck, Oscar Lanford III, Laurent Lafforgue, | , Dennis Sullivan and René Thom. The long-term visitors are Christophe Bre ... |
| Buckminster Fuller | ... voluntary groupings to form the institutions and social forms they prefer. | presented a theoretical basis for technological utopianism and set out to ... |
| John Rock | ... ls had to be conducted. These were initiated on infertility patients of Dr. | in Brookline, Massachusetts using progesterone in 1953 and then three diff ... |
| Joseph Henry | ... is termed the inductance. The unit of inductance is the henry, named after | , a contemporary of Faraday. One henry is the inductance that will induce ... |
| Walter O. Snelling | Propane was first identified as a volatile component in gasoline by | of the U.S. Bureau of Mines in 1910. The volatility of these lighter hydro ... |
| Stephen Jay Gould | Others, such as | , reject the notion that genetic entities are subject to anything other th ... |
| Alexander Wetmore | # | , 1944–195 |
| Al-Jahiz | ... Satire was introduced into Arabic prose literature by the Afro-Arab author | in the 9th century. While dealing with serious topics in what are now know ... |
| David Hume | ... will, desire, or inclination to do." In articulating this crucial proviso, | writes, "this hypothetical liberty is universally allowed to belong to eve ... |
| Charles Greeley Abbot | # | , 1928–194 |
| Alexander Prokhorov | ... ples describing the operation of a maser was described by Nikolay Basov and | from Lebedev Institute of Physics at an All-Union Conference on Radio-Spec ... |
| Humphry Davy | Since the discovery of potassium by | , it had been assumed that alumina, the basis of clay, contained a metal i ... |
| Richard Dawkins | In The Selfish Gene, author | asserts the gene is the only true unit of selection. (Dawkins also attempt ... |
| René Descartes | ... led anatomical study resumed, combined with the theoretical speculations of | and those who followed him. Descartes, like Galen, thought of the nervous ... |
| Kitty Pryde | ... al and rebuilding of the original X-Mansion by Wolverine, with support from | , Iceman, and Beast. Enrollment in The Jean Grey School for Higher Learnin ... |
| Niklaus Wirth | ... . The compiler itself was largely inspired by the "Tiny Pascal" compiler in | 's "Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs", one of the most influential ... |
| Charles Doolittle Walcott | # | , 1907–192 |
| Laurent Lafforgue | ... Pierre Deligne, Mikhail Gromov, Alexandre Grothendieck, Oscar Lanford III, | , Maxim Kontsevich, Dennis Sullivan and René Thom. The long-term visitors ... |
| John Gorton | | , Prime Minister of Australia from 1968–1971, initiated several forms of g ... |
| Samuel Pierpont Langley | # | , 1887–190 |
| Aristotle | ... 0), or 'New Method', and was supposed to replace the methods put forward in | 's Organon. This method was influential upon the development of scientific ... |
| Morgagni | ... animals). His very innovative work may be viewed as sitting between that of | whose work Virchow studied, and that of Paul Ehrlich, who studied at the C ... |
| Isaac Newton | ... he advised proceeding by this method (building a case from the ground up). | , a noted Baconian, used such principles in the Philosophy section of his ... |
| Manfred R. Schroeder | ... stic masking codec was first proposed in 1979, apparently independently, by | , et al. from AT&T-Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ, and M. A. Krasner both in ... |
| Grover Krantz | Bigfoot proponents | and Geoffrey Bourne believe that Bigfoot could be a relict population of G ... |
| Aristotle | ... ovement, combining the classical concepts of perfect societies of Plato and | with Roman rhetorical finesse (cf. Cicero, Quintilian, epideictic oratory) ... |
| George Darwin | ... ssistant of the Carnegie Institution and came under the strong influence of | |
| Graham Higman | ... ly presented groups that cannot be finitely presented. However a theorem of | states that a finitely generated group has a recursive presentation if and ... |
| Max Born | In 1924, Fermi spent a semester at the University of Göttingen with | , and then stayed for a few months in Leiden with Paul Ehrenfest. From Jan ... |
| G. Wayne Clough | # | , 2008 |
| Wassily Leontief | ... H-O model, such as the Leontief paradox, were exposed in empirical tests by | who found that the United States tended to export labor-intensive goods de ... |
| John Flamsteed | ... This method of designating stars first appeared in a preliminary version of | 's Historia Coelestis Britannica which was published by Edmond Halley and ... |
| Richard Borshay Lee | ... ts Theodor Adorno and Herbert Marcuse; anthropologists Marshall Sahlins and | ; and others such as Lewis Mumford, Jean Baudrillard and Gary Snyder. Many ... |
| Jim Marrs | In a 2004 documentary titled The Secret of Redgate by Lynda J. Cowen and | , a number of Deer Lodge residents explain about their experiences with ex ... |
| Aristotle | The terms "comedy" and "satire" became synonymous after | 's Poetics was translated into Arabic in the medieval Islamic world, where ... |
| Stéphane Dion | ... for the event, and urged the Liberals to emerge united from the convention. | was elected Liberal leader from a field of eight candidates |
| James Clerk Maxwell | ... axwell's equations are named after the Scottish physicist and mathematician | , since in an early form they are all found in a four-part paper, "On Phys ... |
| Jim Cairns | ... also rose significantly. Unease within the ALP led to Barnard's defeat when | challenged him for his deputy leadership. Whitlam gave little help to his ... |
| Luigi Galvani | ... understanding of nervous function, though, came from the investigations of | , who discovered that a shock of static electricity applied to an exposed ... |
| Aleksandr Khinchin | then, as the Russian mathematician | proved in 1934, the limit as n tends to infinity of the geometric mean: (a ... |
| Alvin Liberman | ... of speech in the form of a spectrogram back into sound. Using this device, | and colleagues were able to discover acoustic cues for the perception of p ... |
| Thomas Mun | ... ematic and coherent explanation of balance of trade was made public through | 's c.1630 "England's treasure by forraign trade, or, The balance of our fo ... |
| Aristotle | ... nt, begetting lines, etc. This was also clarified in the writings of Plato, | and Plotinus. This teaching being largely Neopythagorean via Numenius as w ... |
| Plato | ... aissance movement, combining the classical concepts of perfect societies of | and Aristotle with Roman rhetorical finesse (cf. Cicero, Quintilian, epide ... |
| Sidney Dillon Ripley | # | , 1964–198 |
| René Lemarchand | ... e the airport while the Burundi army moved into the countryside. Africanist | notes, "What followed was not so much a repression as a hideous slaughter ... |
| Émile Borel | ... loped in successive stages during the late 19th and early 20th centuries by | , Henri Lebesgue, Johann Radon and Maurice Fréchet, among others. The main ... |
| Pierre Deligne | Jean Bourgain, Alain Connes, | , Mikhail Gromov, Alexandre Grothendieck, Oscar Lanford III, Laurent Laffo ... |
| Henry Fonda | ... ted in Life Magazine in 1953. This was the only film of Hitchcock's to star | . Fonda plays a Stork Club musician mistaken for a liquor store thief who ... |
| Landon Curt Noll | The IOCCC was started by | and Larry Bassel in 1984 while employed at National Semiconductor's Genix ... |
| Buckminster Fuller | ... ean O'Brien, and Harold Kroto at Rice University. The name was an homage to | , whose geodesic domes it resembles. The structure was also identified som ... |
| Marshall Sahlins | ... ankfurt School Marxists Theodor Adorno and Herbert Marcuse; anthropologists | and Richard Borshay Lee; and others such as Lewis Mumford, Jean Baudrillar ... |
| Leonard Carmichael | # | , 1953–196 |
| Ptolemy | The earliest mention of the Geats may appear in | (2nd century A.D.), where they are referred to as Goutai. In the 6th centu ... |
| Dr. Samuel Johnson | ... as Mrs. Miggins. The series features rotten boroughs (or "robber buttons"), | (played by Robbie Coltrane), William Pitt the Younger (Simon Osborne), the ... |
| Mary Everest | In 1855 he married | (niece of George Everest), who later wrote several educational works on he ... |
| Lagrange | ... tional symbols. The formal algebraic manipulation of series investigated by | and Laplace in the 1770s has been put in the form of operator equalities b ... |
| Sumio Iijima | ... it resembles. The structure was also identified some five years earlier by | , from an electron microscope image, where it formed the core of a "bucky ... |
| Alain Connes | Jean Bourgain, | , Pierre Deligne, Mikhail Gromov, Alexandre Grothendieck, Oscar Lanford II ... |
| Plato | ... the point, begetting lines, etc. This was also clarified in the writings of | , Aristotle and Plotinus. This teaching being largely Neopythagorean via N ... |
| Edmond Halley | ... on of John Flamsteed's Historia Coelestis Britannica which was published by | and Isaac Newton in 1712 without Flamsteed's approval. The final version o ... |
| John Maynard Smith | ... ent in the 1930s and 1940s. The work of W. D. Hamilton, George C. Williams, | and others led to the development of a gene-centered view of evolution in ... |
| Herbert Marcuse | ... works of theorists such as the Frankfurt School Marxists Theodor Adorno and | ; anthropologists Marshall Sahlins and Richard Borshay Lee; and others suc ... |
| Ejnar Hertzsprung | ... er 25, 1877 – February 18, 1957) was an American astronomer who, along with | , developed the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram (1910). In 1923, working with ... |
| Plato | | is one of Gorgias’ greatest critics. Plato’s dislike for sophistic doctrin ... |
| Heinrich Limpricht | ... students who became notable chemists. Among them were Georg Ludwig Carius, | , Rudolph Fittig, Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, Albert Niemann, and Vojtěc ... |
| Enrico Barone | ... and the coordination of production and distribution through state planning. | provided a comprehensive theoretical framework for a planned socialist eco ... |
| Nikolay Basov | ... theoretical principles describing the operation of a maser was described by | and Alexander Prokhorov from Lebedev Institute of Physics at an All-Union ... |
| Alexander Hamilton | ... d 10 percent, depending on the value of the item. Secretary of the Treasury | was anxious to establish the tariff as a regular source of government reve ... |
| Pierre Schaeffer | ... rake drums, flower pots, gongs, and more. In Europe, during the late 1940s, | coined the term musique concrète to refer to the peculiar nature of sounds ... |
| Jean Bourgain | ... mathematicians who were or are now permanent professors at the IHÉS include | , Alain Connes, Pierre Deligne, Mikhail Gromov, Alexandre Grothendieck, Os ... |
| Charles François Antoine Morren | ... local species of Melipona bee. It was not until 1837 that Belgian botanist | discovered this fact and pioneered a method of artificially pollinating th ... |
| Donald Johanson | ... nd The Making of Mankind (1981). Leakey had an open scientific rivalry with | during the 1980s |
| Thomas Kuhn | ... e their skills by observing a master. His writings about science influenced | and Paul Feyerabend, although he denies that "indwelling" within (sometime ... |
| Walter Isard | ... round Railroad. In 1956, the Thornfield house was purchased by Caroline and | , active Quakers who moved to the area when Walter founded the Regional Sc ... |
| Bertil Ohlin | ... oportions theory was developed by two Swedish economists, Eli Heckscher and | . This theory is therefore called the Heckscher-Ohlin theory (H-O theory). ... |
| Jean Pierre Mégnin | ... davres (Fauna of the Cadaver, 1894) by French veterinarian and entomologist | . These works made the concept of the process of insect ecological success ... |
| Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin | ... constant is a recurring constant in number theory. The French mathematician | proved in 1898 that when taking any positive integer n and dividing it by ... |
| Charles Augustus Young | ... rsity, obtaining his B.A. in 1897 and his doctorate in 1899, studying under | . From 1903 to 1905, he worked at the Cambridge Observatory with Arthur Ro ... |
| Georg Ludwig Carius | Wöhler had several students who became notable chemists. Among them were | , Heinrich Limpricht, Rudolph Fittig, Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, Albert ... |
| Avicenna | ... Islamic philosophers and writers, such as Abu Bischr, his pupil Al-Farabi, | , and Averroes. Due to cultural differences, they disassociated comedy fro ... |
| W. D. Hamilton | ... refined after the initial establishment in the 1930s and 1940s. The work of | , George C. Williams, John Maynard Smith and others led to the development ... |
| Isaac Newton | ... ed's Historia Coelestis Britannica which was published by Edmond Halley and | in 1712 without Flamsteed's approval. The final version of Flamsteed's cat ... |
| Juha Pentikäinen | ... the folklore of the community, which provides a "mythological mental map". | uses the concept "grammar of mind". Linking to a Sami example, Kathleen Os ... |
| Jean-Pierre Bourguignon | ... Motchane (1958–71), Nicolaas Kuiper (1971–85), Marcel Berger (1985–94) and | (1994–present) |
| James George Frazer | ... the Gunpowder Plot—or the colonial and agrarian mythos of Joseph Conrad and | , which, at least for reasons of textual history, echo in The Waste Land. ... |
| Dr. Jeong Kim | In 2005, | , former President of Lucent's Optical Network Group, returned from academ ... |
| George C. Williams | ... e initial establishment in the 1930s and 1940s. The work of W. D. Hamilton, | , John Maynard Smith and others led to the development of a gene-centered ... |
| Adam Smith | ... f free trade, was elected for the first time. Peel had studied the works of | , David Hume and Ricardo and proclaimed during 1839: "I have read all that ... |
| Eli Heckscher | ... y called factor proportions theory was developed by two Swedish economists, | and Bertil Ohlin. This theory is therefore called the Heckscher-Ohlin theo ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... passed by the U.S. Congress 1806–1808, during the second term of President | . Britain and France were engaged in a major war; the U.S. wanted to remai ... |
| Aldous Huxley | ... the classics The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood and Brave New World, by | |
| Richard Stallman | ... ge of software, having started in 1984, the author having collaborated with | , pre-GNU |
| Averroes | ... sophers and writers, such as Abu Bischr, his pupil Al-Farabi, Avicenna, and | . Due to cultural differences, they disassociated comedy from Greek dramat ... |
| Guy Consolmagno | And on 5 March 2009, Jesuit Brother | , another astronomer working at the Vatican Observatory, told the BBC, in ... |
| Stanley Bruce | ... Nationalists who had been expelled for crossing the floor and bringing down | 's Nationalist government in 1929), merged to form the UAP. Lyons was chos ... |
| Neil Shubin | ... fusion is apparent for the non-specialist in the book "Your Inner Fish", by | , who describes the origin of teeth in chapter 4. In this chapter, the aut ... |
| Adam Smith | ... nomist Frederick Hayek, although the concept can be traced back to at least | . Unlike Hayek however Polanyi argues that there are higher and lower form ... |
| Irving Fisher | ... in The Time Machine and Wells's eugenic beliefs. For example, the economist | said in a 1912 address to the Eugenics Research Association: "The Nordic r ... |
| Svante Arrhenius | ... ft für physikalische Chemie ("Journal of Physical Chemistry"). He worked on | 's theory of the dissociation of electrolytes and in 1889 provided physica ... |
| Joseph Stiglitz | Nobel Prize-winning economist | has also argued that the Act helped to create the crisis. An article in th ... |
| Tullio Levi-Civita | ... d tensor calculus, a mathematical instrument invented by Gregorio Ricci and | , and needed to demonstrate the principles of general relativity. Between ... |
| Albert Hibbs | ... " an idea which he credited in the essay to his friend and graduate student | . This concept involved building a tiny, swallowable surgical robot by dev ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | ... ne's College in Oxford, where she attended lectures by both C. S. Lewis and | before graduating in 1956. In the same year she married John Burrow, a sch ... |
| Adam Smith | | displays trade taking place on the basis of countries exercising absolute ... |
| Alexander Afanasyev | ... eglect of cross-cultural influence. Among those influenced were the Russian | , the Norwegians Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe, and the English ... |
| Roger Bacon | ... our fallacies are sometimes compared to a similar list in the first part of | 's Opus Majus which, although it was much older, had not been printed in B ... |
| G. Ledyard Stebbins | The botanist | was another major contributor to the synthesis. His major work, Variation ... |
| Chrysippus | The Stoic | said that a single uncaused cause could destroy the universe (cosmos) |
| Henry A. Rowland | ... ally known luminaries such as the biologist H. Newell Martin; the physicist | (the first president of the American Physical Society), the classical scho ... |
| Jan Swammerdam | ... tory, Christopher Wren observed that many shells form a logarithmic spiral. | observed the common mathematical characteristics of a wide range of shells ... |
| Isaac Newton | ... ied in 1641 at the age of twenty-three. Flamsteed was greatly impressed (as | had been) by the work of Horrocks |
| Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff | ... nd concepts of "energy" flowing between people and animals in cyclic paths. | relates these concepts to developments in the ways that modern science (sy ... |
| Wolfgang von Kempelen | ... as followed by the bellows-operated "acoustic-mechanical speech machine" by | of Pressburg, Hungary, described in a 1791 paper. This machine added model ... |
| Christopher Wren | The study of spirals in nature have a long history, | observed that many shells form a logarithmic spiral. Jan Swammerdam observ ... |
| Mahmud al-Kashgari | ... inguistic groups. In the eleventh century, the renowned Muslim Turk scholar | described the language of the Oghuz and Turkmen as distinct from that of o ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... e continues to have many legions of loyal fans, including ex-Prime Minister | . The Thick Of It is a similar BBC television series that has been called ... |
| Santiago Ramón y Cajal | ... In the hands of Camillo Golgi, and especially of the Spanish neuroanatomist | , the new stain revealed hundreds of distinct types of neurons, each with ... |
| Francis Galton | ... believed in the theory of eugenics. In 1904 he discussed a survey paper by | , co-founder of eugenics, saying "I believe ... It is in the sterilisation ... |
| Dorothy Kilgallen | ... Russell disguised her voice. Her voice however, was so well disguised that | was convinced that the Mystery Guest was a man. After Russell's identity w ... |
| Israelis of Toledo | than in Western Europe, where the | had lon |
| Heraclides Ponticus | ... unfortunately has not survived. His disciples Dicaearchus, Aristoxenus, and | had written on the same subject. These writers, late as they are, were amo ... |
| Alfred Marshall | ... as found support in notable classical and neoclassical economists including | , John Stuart Mill and Jaroslav Vanek. There are numerous variations of se ... |
| Lewis Wolpert | Sheldrake has entered into a scientific wager with fellow biologist | on the importance of DNA in the developing organism. Wolpert bet Sheldrake ... |
| Richard Goldschmidt | ... idge University in England to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology with | in Berlin where he performed research. He became an instructor in general ... |
| Paul Craig Roberts | ... around an economy, and in a monetarist Keynesian analysis that according to | was thirty years ahead of its time, he rejected the claim that economies s ... |
| Nicolaas Kuiper | The Directors of the IHÉS in chronological order: Léon Motchane (1958–71), | (1971–85), Marcel Berger (1985–94) and Jean-Pierre Bourguignon (1994–prese ... |
| Ota Šik | ... used further disquiet. In October 1967, a number of reformers, most notably | and Alexander Dubček, took action: they challenged First Secretary Antonín ... |
| Grover Krantz | ... een human, Gigantopithecus and Meganthropus skulls (reconstructions made by | ) in episodes 131 and 132 of the Bigfoot Discovery Museum Show. He favorab ... |
| Martin Heisenberg | ... r Holly Compton, Karl Popper, Henry Margenau, Robert Kane, Alfred Mele, and | |
| Georg Ohm | ... e known as 'ohmic'. The ohm, the unit of resistance, was named in honour of | , and is symbolised by the Greek letter Ω. 1 Ω is the resistance that will ... |
| Timothy Leary | ... murder, he jumped bail to flee to Cuba and later went to Algeria. Following | 's Weather Underground assisted prison escape, Leary stayed with Cleaver i ... |
| Tobias Mayer’s | ... employed at the Greenwich Observatory, Mason became familiar with Professor | Tables of the Moon. The Lunar Tables were designed to solve the problem of ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... oss-border co-operation were discussed with the new British Prime Minister, | . These discussions led Síle de Valera, a backbench TD, to directly challe ... |
| Daniel Jackson | ... ins a suicidal mission through the Stargate with a couple of airmen and Dr. | who deciphers the Stargate. They are transported to another planet where O ... |
| Walther Funk | ... ent, in spite of growing deficits. Schacht resigned on 8 December 1937, and | took over the position, as well as control of the Reichsbank. In this way ... |
| Friedrich Hirzebruch | ... ntific research institutes in Germany. The institute was founded in 1980 by | |
| Adolf Zeising | . | , whose main interests were mathematics and philosophy, found the golden r ... |
| Paul Émile de Puydt | ... hy" was invented and the concept proposed by a Belgian political economist, | in an article called "Panarchy" published in 1860. The word "panarchy" has ... |
| Robert Curl | ... ake, buckminsterfullerene (C 60 ), was prepared in 1985 by Richard Smalley, | , James Heath, Sean O'Brien, and Harold Kroto at Rice University. The name ... |
| Michael Faraday | ... herefore the capacitance. The unit of capacitance is the farad, named after | , and given the symbol F: one farad is the capacitance that develops a pot ... |
| Doering | ... sed of C=C bonds would show aromatic properties was first stated clearly by | in a 1951 article on tropolone. Tropolone had been recognised as an aromat ... |
| Alexander Graham Bell | ... ell Laboratory and the Volta Laboratory, was created in Washington, D.C. by | |
| Carl Jung | ... oposed as the theory of the collective unconscious by renowned psychiatrist | . According to Sheldrake, the theory of "morphic fields" might provide an ... |
| David Cope | | (1997) suggests the concept of interval strength, in which an interval's s ... |
| David Eagleman | ... tic ratio, computed using quantum electrodynamics. Also, the neuroscientist | noted tha |
| Jim Cairns | ... the sacking of two senior ministers, Rex Connor and Deputy Prime Minister, | . The Liberal Opposition Leader, Malcolm Fraser, decided to use the Senate ... |
| Chaim Weizmann | ... n the Anglo-American Committee had made him sympathetic to Zionism, visited | shortly after the attack. Weizmann's ambivalence towards Zionist violence ... |
| John Desmond Bernal | ... acking of the State. Demands in Britain, amongst people such as the Marxist | , for centrally planned scientific research, led Polanyi to argue that sci ... |
| Henry Margenau | ... ned this idea, including Henri Poincaré, Arthur Holly Compton, Karl Popper, | , Robert Kane, Alfred Mele, and Martin Heisenberg |
| Alfred Marshall | ... Cambridge after receiving a scholarship for this also to study mathematics. | begged Keynes to become an economist |
| Aldous Huxley | ... l. All classes of men and women are defined by the colours they wear (as in | 's dystopia Brave New World), drawing on color symbolism and psychology. A ... |
| Richard Smalley | ... he family's namesake, buckminsterfullerene (C 60 ), was prepared in 1985 by | , Robert Curl, James Heath, Sean O'Brien, and Harold Kroto at Rice Univers ... |
| Martin Gardner | Not all accusations of bias are political. Science writer | has accused the entertainment media of anti-science bias. He claims that t ... |
| Howard Zinn | ... in the U.S. civil rights movement in part due to the influence of activist | , who was one of her professors at Spelman College. Continuing the activis ... |
| Plato | ... ing both from the exact meaning of the original Greek term and its usage in | nist philosophy |
| Henri Poincaré | ... as Émile Zola, novelists Octave Mirbeau and Anatole France, mathematicians | and Jacques Hadamard, and Lucien Herr, librarian of the École Normale Supé ... |
| John Stuart Mill | ... in notable classical and neoclassical economists including Alfred Marshall, | and Jaroslav Vanek. There are numerous variations of self-management, incl ... |
| Michael D. Swords | ... ad nothing to do with those early accounts. Similarly, Clark notes that Dr. | has speculated that the Barker/Bender Men in Black case (occurring shortly ... |
| Dennis Sullivan | ... s at the IHÉS. René Thom was another prominent figure in its early history. | is remembered as one who had a special talent for encouraging fruitful exc ... |
| Marguerite Perey | Francium was discovered by | in France (from which the element takes its name) in 1939. It was the last ... |
| Tyler Cowen | Bill Clinton, as well as economists Brad DeLong and | have all argued that the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act softened the impact of the ... |
| René Thom | ... zing theories were a dominating feature of the first ten years at the IHÉS. | was another prominent figure in its early history. Dennis Sullivan is reme ... |
| Camillo Golgi | ... bers, in which it is impossible to determine any structure. In the hands of | , and especially of the Spanish neuroanatomist Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the ... |
| Isaac Newton | ... from Bacon's essay On Truth from his 1605 work The Advancement of Learning. | was a noted Baconian—his famous quote hypotheses non fingo (I don't frame ... |
| Nicolaus Copernicus | The astronomer | was first to demonstrate to the world that the Earth is moving and the Sun ... |
| Israel Nathan Herstein | ... this position from 1946 until he retired in 1971. He was thesis adviser for | |
| Rodolfo Lanciani | ... ainted on either side of the arch above the high altar. In the 19th century | recalled that at Christmas time the presepio included a carved and painted ... |
| Emanuel Tov | ... ion used by the earliest Christians) was only a poor translation, professor | , senior editor of the Dead Sea Scrolls' publication, wrote that the Masor ... |
| Plato | ... ad, he studied at Heidelberg, Göttingen and Berlin. At Göttingen he studied | with Arnold Heeren; history with Heeren and Gottlieb Jakob Planck; Arabic, ... |
| Spock | ... f in their performances as McCoy, Captain James T. Kirk and science officer | , respectively. Nichelle Nichols, who played Uhura, referred to Kelley as ... |
| Jacques Hadamard | ... elists Octave Mirbeau and Anatole France, mathematicians Henri Poincaré and | , and Lucien Herr, librarian of the École Normale Supérieure. Constantin M ... |
| Hadamard | ... lead to a proof of the prime number theorem. This outline was completed by | and de la Vallée Poussin, who independently proved the prime number theore ... |
| Homer Dudley | ... ech into its fundamental tone and resonances. From his work on the vocoder, | developed a manually keyboard-operated voice synthesizer called The Voder ... |
| Adelbert von Chamisso | | might have consulted with a native speaker of Hawaiian in Berlin, Germany, ... |
| Jaroslav Vanek | ... and neoclassical economists including Alfred Marshall, John Stuart Mill and | . There are numerous variations of self-management, including labour-manag ... |
| George Gaylord Simpson | ... s writings contributed to the rapid acceptance of the synthesis in Germany. | was responsible for showing that the modern synthesis was compatible with ... |
| Gough Whitlam | ... 1, initiated several forms of government support for film and the arts. The | government continued to support Australian film and state governments also ... |
| Alan Kay | ... called Babelfish. In 1994, he moved to work at Apple Computer, reporting to | , where he developed the Meta Content Framework (MCF) format. In 1997 he j ... |
| Karl Popper | ... ve since refined this idea, including Henri Poincaré, Arthur Holly Compton, | , Henry Margenau, Robert Kane, Alfred Mele, and Martin Heisenberg |
| Jonathan Crane | ... ff members Dr. Harleen Quinzel, Lyle Bolton and, in some incarnations, Drs. | and Hugo Strange, have gone insane themselves |
| Francesco Faà di Bruno | ... aà di Bruno's formula appears, 55 years before the first published paper of | on that topic |
| Edward Bromhead | ... s Institute, the Lincoln Mechanics' Institution, which was founded in 1833. | , who knew John Boole through the Institution, helped George Boole with ma ... |
| George Bernard Shaw | ... Aeschylus to be recovered from the underworld; In Sondheim and Shevelove's, | faces William Shakespeare |
| Rupert Murdoch | ... he Age to remain competitive. By the 1980s a new competitor had appeared in | 's national daily The Australian. In 1999 David Syme and Co. became The Ag ... |
| Albert Gallatin | ... inst him two-thirds of the time, leaving almost half as fairly independent. | recalled only two caucuses on legislative policy between 1795 and 1801, on ... |
| Abraham Sharp | ... e done both him and Dr. Halley a great kindness," he wrote to his assistant | |
| Jean Dieudonné | ... athematical physicist Léon Motchane with the help of Robert Oppenheimer and | , aims to bring together top researchers in the field. It has a small numb ... |
| Tim Bray | ... rk (MCF) format. In 1997 he joined Netscape Corporation where together with | , he created a new version of MCF that used the XML language and which bec ... |
| Max Mathews | ... (vocoder) recreated the song "Daisy Bell", with musical accompaniment from | . Coincidentally, Arthur C. Clarke was visiting his friend and colleague J ... |
| Adam Smith | ... the late 18th century, especially in England, in light of the arguments of | and the classical economists. The repeal of the Corn Laws by Robert Peel s ... |
| Joel Fuhrman | ... ounts of food, the health of such methods is questionable, according to Dr. | . A true fast, he contends, consists of an intake solely of water, and can ... |
| Charles François Antoine Morren | In 1836, botanist | was drinking coffee on a patio in Papantla (in Veracruz, Mexico) and notic ... |
| George Wald | | , Haldan Keffer Hartline and Ragnar Granit won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Phy ... |
| Irving Fisher | ... n mainstream neo-classical economics, NPV was formalized and popularized by | , in his 1907 The Rate of Interest and became included in textbooks from t ... |
| Isaac Todhunter | ... es of the Royal Society and the British Museum; but it was left incomplete. | printed the manuscripts in 1865, in a supplementary volume |
| Christopher Longuet-Higgins | ... he same year. The credit for explaining such biradicals is usually given to | in 1950 |
| Henri Poincaré | ... ween those who supported Dreyfus (the Dreyfusards), such as Anatole France, | and Georges Clemenceau, and those who condemned him (the anti-Dreyfusards) ... |
| Hypatia | ... as c. 414, because he appears to have been unaware of the violent death of | |
| Heraclitus | ... άγος); the Zoroastrian astrologer priests. Greek mágos is first attested in | (6th century BC, apud. Clement Protrepticus 12) who curses the Magians and ... |
| Dicaearchus | ... the words of Cicero), was ascribed to Aristoxenus (fr. 118-121 Wehrli) and | . This theory is comparable to the one offered by Simmias in Plato's Phaed ... |
| Milton Berle | ... sy at the 1993 MTV Video Music Awards when he presented an award with actor | , who performed an altogether different type of drag early in his career. ... |
| Plato | ... res Atticae (1838–1850); with Orelli and Winckelmann, a critical edition of | (1839–1842), which marked a distinct advance in the text, two new manuscri ... |
| Adelbert von Chamisso | He moved in the circles of August Wilhelm Schlegel, | , Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Rahel Levin, and David Ferdinand Koreff |
| Leibniz | ... e to deny all that Cardan affirms and to affirm all that Cardan denies. Yet | and Sir William Hamilton recognize him as the best modern exponent of the ... |
| Leonhard Euler | ... s of making the notation more concise. A standard convention, instigated by | in the 18th century, is to use lower case letters from the beginning of th ... |
| Joseph Henry | Though the Smithsonian's first Secretary, | , wanted the Institution to be a center for scientific research, before lo ... |
| Joel Fuhrman | ... nic fasting helps eliminate hypertension. Natural Hygienist doctors such as | continue to use this method |
| Wolfgang Paul | ... ms were closed in 2007. In 1983 the new science library was opened. In 1989 | was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. Three years later Reinhard Selten ... |
| Joseph Banks | ... inking the Pacific and southern Indian Ocean. Governor Hunter thus wrote to | in August 1797 that it seemed certain a strait existed |
| Claude Bernard | ... al environment of its body—the milieu intérieur, as pioneering physiologist | called it—is known as homeostasis (Greek for "standing still"). Maintainin ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... hen congress voted on independence. Adams persuaded the committee to select | to compose the original draft of the document, which congress would edit t ... |
| Goethe | ... condemned and executed by the Vehmgericht. Scott drew his inspiration from | 's play Goetz von Berlichingen which he had translated, incorrectly |
| Aristotle | ... sy, this time disproving not just Galen but also Mondino de Liuzzi and even | ; all three had made assumptions about the functions and structure of the ... |
| Min Chueh Chang | ... PFA for Pincus to begin hormonal contraceptive research. Pincus, along with | , confirmed earlier research that progesterone would act as an inhibitor t ... |
| Dewar | ... icle on tropolone. Tropolone had been recognised as an aromatic molecule by | in 1945 |
| James Clerk Maxwell | ... electromagnetic wave. Electromagnetic waves were analysed theoretically by | in 1864. Maxwell developed a set of equations that could unambiguously des ... |
| Richard Karp | ... at there exist practically relevant problems that are NP-complete. In 1972, | took this idea a leap forward with his landmark paper, "Reducibility Among ... |
| Albert Einstein | ... The actor says that he based his character on Elia Kazan, Jacques Cousteau, | , Leonardo Da Vinci, and Adam Ant |
| Leopold Gmelin | ... 23 Wöhler finished his study of medicine in Heidelberg at the laboratory of | , who arranged for him to work under Jöns Jakob Berzelius in Stockholm. He ... |
| Arthur C. Clarke | ... "Daisy Bell", with musical accompaniment from Max Mathews. Coincidentally, | was visiting his friend and colleague John Pierce at the Bell Labs Murray ... |
| Rudolf Kohlrausch | ... fore Maxwell's equations, in an 1855 experiment by Wilhelm Eduard Weber and | . They charged a leyden jar (a kind of capacitor), and measured the electr ... |
| Louis Michel | are | , Jürg Fröhlich, David Ruelle, Thibault Damour, Nikita Nekrasov |
| Erik Meijer | Together with Shon Katzenberger, Scott Wiltamuth, Todd Proebsting, | , Peter Hallam and Peter Sollich, Anders was recently awarded a Technical ... |
| Zuse | ... ame an expert about the first computers of the University of Ljubljana, the | Z-23 and its successor the IBM 1130. Later on he participated in the devel ... |
| Bengt Edlén | ... Sun has a million degree corona was first discovered by Gotrian in 1939 and | in 1941 by identifying the coronal lines (observed since 1869) as transiti ... |
| Willie Christine King | ... n Luther King, Sr. and Alberta Williams King. King Jr. had an older sister, | , and a younger brother, Alfred Daniel Williams King. King sang with his c ... |
| Sir John Cowdery Kendrew | ... in structures to be solved were hemoglobin and myoglobin, by Max Perutz and | , respectively, in 1958. The first atomic-resolution structures of protein ... |
| Isaac Asimov | Scientist/author | defined two types of scientifi |
| Theodor Schwann | ... nown scientific contribution is his cell theory, which built on the work of | . He is cited as the first to recognize leukemia cells. He was one of the ... |
| Henry Clifton Sorby | ... pic and macroscopic properties using metallography, a technique invented by | . In metallography, an alloy of interest is ground flat and polished to a ... |
| Pat Devine | ... work less. A contemporary model for a self-managed, non-market socialism is | 's model of negotiated coordination. Negotiated coordination is based upon ... |
| R.A. Fisher | ... was appointed assistant statistician at Rothamsted Experimental Station by | . In 1933 he became head of statistics when Fisher went to University Coll ... |
| Jean-Baptiste Colbert | ... ilism in the 17th century. This French mercantilism was best articulated by | (in office, 1665–1683), though policy liberalised greatly under Napoleon |
| Franco Rasetti | ... t the Scuola Normale Superiore, Fermi teamed up with a fellow student named | with whom he would indulge in light-hearted pranks and who would later bec ... |
| Bill Oddie | ... on area, with a focus on the region's parakeets, in an episode presented by | |
| Thomas E. Kurtz | ... IC — the original BASIC — invented by college professors John G. Kemeny and | |
| Ludolph van Ceulen | ... n a common enterprise for many centuries. For example, German mathematician | of the 16th century spent a major part of his life calculating the first 3 ... |
| Angela Merkel | On November 9, 2009, Chancellor of Germany, | , walked through Brandenburg Gate with Russia’s Mikhail Gorbachev and Pola ... |
| Thomas Edison | ... the film laboratory of Thomas Alva Edison in the late 1890s. Early films by | (whose company invented a motion camera and projector) and others were sho ... |
| Philip Miller | ... he word vanilla entered the English language in the 1754, when the botanist | wrote about the genus in his Gardener’s Dictionary. Vainilla is from the d ... |
| Albert Gallatin | ... " Outstanding propagandists included editor William Duane and party leaders | , Thomas Cooper and Jefferson himself |
| Alfred Marshall | ... so in 1909, Keynes accepted a lectureship in economics funded personally by | . Keynes's earnings rose further as he began to take on pupils for private ... |
| John G. Kemeny | ... from Dartmouth BASIC — the original BASIC — invented by college professors | and Thomas E. Kurtz |
| Bernhard Rensch | ... ed States in 1930, Mayr had been influenced by the work of German biologist | . In the 1920s Rensch, who like Mayr did field work in Indonesia, analyzed ... |
| Luigi Puccianti | In Pisa, Fermi was advised by the director of the physics laboratory, | , who acknowledged that there was little that he could teach Fermi, and fr ... |
| Charles Berlitz | ... alyst Immanuel Velikovsky, Erich von Däniken, linguist and language teacher | , Johannes Lang, inventor an |
| Kaj Linderstrøm-Lang | ... ork by Walter Kauzmann on denaturation, based partly on previous studies by | , contributed an understanding of protein folding and structure mediated b ... |
| Mary Pickford | ... n honeymoon in Paris in 1920, he offered him star billing with his new wife | , but Chevalier doubted his own talent for silent movies (his previous one ... |
| Horst Störmer | ... ogy was patented. In 1982, Fractional quantum Hall effect was discovered by | and former Bell Laboratories researchers Robert B. Laughlin and Daniel C. ... |
| Murray Rothbard | ... n be produced by the free market. This differs from the version proposed by | , where a legal code would first be consented to by the parties involved i ... |
| Johann Friedrich Blumenbach | ... eek and scripture interpretation with Albert Eichhorn; natural science with | ; German literature with Georg Friedrich Benecke; French and Italian liter ... |
| Russell Impagliazzo | ... that the exponential-time hierarchy is usually conjectured not to collapse. | and Avi Wigderson showed that if any problem in E, where \textrm{E}=\textr ... |
| Goethe | ... he late 16th century Faust chapbooks. In the 1725 version which was read by | , Mephostophiles is a devil in the form of a greyfriar summoned by Faust i ... |
| Torsten Wiesel | ... makes them function as "bug perceivers". A few years later David Hubel and | discovered cells in the primary visual cortex of monkeys that become activ ... |
| Johann Carl Fuhlrott | ... of endoheretics are ship's doctor Robert Mayer, brewer James Joule, teacher | , Augustinian friar Gregor Mendel, meteorologist Alfred Wegener, architect ... |
| Karl Marx | ... resent value as a valuation methodology dates at least to the 19th century. | refers to NPV as fictitious capital, and the calculation as capitalising, ... |
| Theophrastus | ... aped insults on Aristotle after his death, because Aristotle had designated | as the next head of the Peripatetic school, a position which Aristoxenus h ... |
| Augustus De Morgan | ... rted the theory of "quantification of the predicate", and Boole's supporter | who advanced a version of De Morgan duality, as it is now called. Boole's ... |
| Oscar Lanford III | ... gain, Alain Connes, Pierre Deligne, Mikhail Gromov, Alexandre Grothendieck, | , Laurent Lafforgue, Maxim Kontsevich, Dennis Sullivan and René Thom. The ... |
| Hypatia | ... ascinating interest. His scientific interests are attested by his letter to | , in which occurs the earliest known reference to a hydrometer, and by a w ... |
| Robert Remak | ... to recognize leukemia cells. He was one of the first to accept the work of | , who showed that the origins of cells was the division of preexisting cel ... |
| Kelly Miller | ... was a decisive factor in enrolling Hopkins' first African-American student, | , a graduate student in physics, astronomy and mathematics, and in admitti ... |
| James Van Allen | ... alone, while a cone would have properties that varied with its orientation. | of the University of Iowa proposed a cylindrical satellite, which became E ... |
| Plato | Like | does, Gnosticism presents a distinction between a supranatural, unknowable ... |
| Martin Neil Baily | ... gence James Woolsey and former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers | , have seen their children graduate from CC in recent years. The distingui ... |
| Jean Pierre Mégnin | According to | 's book La Faune des Cadavres there are eight distinct faunal successions ... |
| Condoleezza Rice | ... ng at the State Department at the personal invitation of Secretary of State | , to wide acclaim. Most recently, the Morgan State University Choir perfor ... |
| Reinhard Selten | ... 989 Wolfgang Paul was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. Three years later | was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics. The decision of the German gover ... |
| Johann Radon | ... ring the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Émile Borel, Henri Lebesgue, | and Maurice Fréchet, among others. The main applications of measures are i ... |
| Friedrich Wöhler | ... arted studying chemistry at the University of Göttingen, where at this time | was head of organic chemistry. After one semester at the University of Ber ... |
| Gregor Mendel | ... Mayer, brewer James Joule, teacher Johann Carl Fuhlrott, Augustinian friar | , meteorologist Alfred Wegener, architect Michael Ventris, physicist Raine ... |
| Edward Bernard | ... accompanied by his tutor. Bentley soon met Dr John Mill, Humphrey Hody, and | . Here he studied the manuscripts of the Bodleian, Corpus Christi and othe ... |
| Raymond Smith Dugan | He co-wrote an influential two-volume textbook in 1927 with | and John Quincy Stewart: Astronomy: A Revision of Young’s Manual of Astron ... |
| Thomas Mun | ... establishing the English mercantilist system include Gerard de Malynes and | , who first articulated the Elizabethan System, which in turn was then dev ... |
| Doris Day | ... 1934 film The Man Who Knew Too Much in 1956, this time starring Stewart and | , who sang the theme song, "Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)", w ... |
| Michael Faraday | The phenomenon of electromagnetic induction was discovered independently by | and Joseph Henry in 1831. However, Faraday was the first to publish the re ... |
| Haskell B. Curry | ... he untyped lambda calculus is called the Y combinator. It was discovered by | , and is defined as |
| August Wilhelm von Hofmann | ... d of organic chemistry. After one semester at the University of Berlin with | , Wallach received his Doctoral degree from the University of Göttingen in ... |
| François-Vincent Raspail | ... like it."), which he published in 1858. (The epigram was actually coined by | but popularized by Virchow.) It is a rejection of the concept of spontaneo ... |
| Alfred North Whitehead | ... s: materialism (August Weismann), vitalism (Hans Driesch), and organicism ( | ). Sheldrake describes his own hypothesis as fitting within the third trad ... |
| Kelly,G.M. | # | , London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series No.64 (C.U.P., 1982 |
| Daniel Murphy | ... ecall if needed. One such system had been developed for the PDP-1 at MIT by | before he joined BBN. Early DEC machines were based on an 18-bit word, all ... |
| Alfred Wegener | ... eacher Johann Carl Fuhlrott, Augustinian friar Gregor Mendel, meteorologist | , architect Michael Ventris, physicist Rainer Kühne |
| William F. Albright | ... the scanty evidence scholars vary widely on what kind of a god Melqart was. | in Archaeology and the Religion of Israel (Baltimore, 1953; pp. 81, 196) s ... |
| Alexander Downer | ... ext. Under the direction of Prime Minister John Howard and Foreign Minister | , Australia then sent the text to the United Nations General Assembly in N ... |
| Spock | McCoy is someone to whom Kirk unburdens himself and is a foil to | . He is Kirk's "friend, personal bartender, confidant, counselor and pries ... |
| Richard Dawkins | ... e use of the "out" metaphor. This campaign is endorsed by prominent atheist | , who states "there is a big closet population of atheists who need to 'co ... |
| Howard Hawks | ... comedy in the classic screwball comedy His Girl Friday (1940), directed by | . In the film, a reworking of Ben Hecht's story The Front Page, Russell pl ... |
| John Quincy Stewart | ... ote an influential two-volume textbook in 1927 with Raymond Smith Dugan and | : Astronomy: A Revision of Young’s Manual of Astronomy (Ginn & Co., Boston ... |
| Michael Faraday | ... ons is always valid but more restrictive than that originally formulated by | . |
| Mikhail Gromov | Jean Bourgain, Alain Connes, Pierre Deligne, | , Alexandre Grothendieck, Oscar Lanford III, Laurent Lafforgue, Maxim Kont ... |
| Murray Rothbard | ... trian School economist, libertarian theorist and anarcho-capitalist founder | |
| Sainte Claire Deville | ... e best private collection of meteoric stones and irons existing. Wöhler and | discovered the crystalline form of boron, and Wöhler and Heinrich Buff dis ... |
| Wright | ... efficient formula for primes. For example, Mills' theorem and a theorem of | assert that there are real constants A>1 and μ such tha |
| Tycho Brahe | ... his star catalogue, which would eventually triple the number of entries in | 's sky atlas. Unwilling to risk his reputation by releasing unverified dat ... |
| Gregory Chaitin | ... construction due to Argentine-American mathematician and computer scientist | . Chaitin's constant, though not being computable, has been proven to be t ... |
| Robert Ridgway | ... f additional or alternative forms have been proposed, including saturata by | in 1883, kamtschatica by Benedykt Dybowski in 1883, ambigua by Erwin Stres ... |
| August Weismann | ... that there are three historical approaches to morphogenesis: materialism ( | ), vitalism (Hans Driesch), and organicism (Alfred North Whitehead). Sheld ... |
| Aristotle | ... us of Erythrae and Xenophilus the Pythagorean, he finally became a pupil of | , whom he appears to have rivaled in the variety of his studies. According ... |
| Władysław Grabski | ... nomic calamities, but there were also signs of progress and stabilization ( | 's economically competent government lasted for almost two years). The ach ... |
| Peter Debye | ... orate, he became an assistant at Göttingen, but soon became an assistant to | at Zürich. It was there that he and Debye developed their theory (the Deby ... |
| Andrey Kolmogorov | ... pplications of measures are in the foundations of the Lebesgue integral, in | 's axiomatisation of probability theory and in ergodic theory. In integrat ... |
| Kim Beazley | He is also a long-time friend of former federal Labor Leader | |
| Wilhelm Eduard Weber | ... was directly measured before Maxwell's equations, in an 1855 experiment by | and Rudolf Kohlrausch. They charged a leyden jar (a kind of capacitor), an ... |
| Leonardo da Vinci | Cesare Borgia briefly employed | as military architect and engineer between 1502 and 1503. Cesare and Leona ... |
| Gordon Gould | ... er, but this was largely abandoned in favor of laser, coined by their rival | . In modern usage, devices that emit in the X-ray through infrared portion ... |
| Oliver Stone | ... as a favor. The scene, known as the "Hun Brothers" scene, was described by | as the best scene in the script. It was, however, cut from the final film ... |
| Josiah Child | ... culated the Elizabethan System, which in turn was then developed further by | . Numerous French authors helped cement French policy around mercantilism ... |
| Carl Jung | The Swiss Psychologist | wrote a short Gnostic treatise in 1916 called The Seven Sermons to the Dea ... |
| Pavle Ivić | ... present in certain regions of nearby Friuli going back to the 13th century. | , a Serbian linguist, cited the hypothesis that a sizeable Roman populatio ... |
| Francesco Redi | ... eved, for example, that maggots could spontaneously appear in decaying meat | ;carried out experiments which disproved this notion and coined the maxim ... |
| Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn | ... ssian origin, who became the artist that made Bali known to the world), and | (owner of a big plantation in the south of Bandung and dubbed "the Humbold ... |
| David Ricardo | ... due to the decrease of purchasing power of landlords and farmers. However, | believed in free trade so Britain could use its capital and population to ... |
| Augustus De Morgan | ... and refined by a number of writers, beginning with. William Stanley Jevons. | had worked on the logic of relations, and Charles Sanders Peirce integrate ... |
| Alan Turing | ... king our tacit awareness. Contrary to the views of his colleague and friend | , whose work at The University of Manchester prepared the way for the firs ... |
| Sydney Chapman | ... atmospheric dynamics, and co-authored the monograph Atmospheric Tides with | |
| Martin Lister | In 1699 he published A Journey to London, after the method of Dr. | , who had published A Journey to Paris. And in 1700 he satirised the Royal ... |
| Jeffrey Meldrum | ... on claimed showed a juvenile Bigfoot were most likely of a bear with mange. | , on the other hand, said the limb proportions of the suspected juvenile i ... |
| Robert Duvall | ... directorial debut. The film is written by Lucas and Walter Murch. It stars | and Donald Pleasence and depicts a dystopian future in which the populace ... |
| William Henry John Slee | ... and arrived in Melbourne in 1855 to join the gold rush, along with partner | . Lawson's parents met at the goldfields of Pipeclay (now Eurunderee New S ... |
| Massimo Pallottino | ... me for diverse sovereign entities appearing on the peninsula. Archaeologist | claimed that the name was actually derived from the Italic tribes settled ... |
| Albert Niemann | ... g Carius, Heinrich Limpricht, Rudolph Fittig, Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, | , and Vojtěch Šafařík |
| Isaac Bonewits | ... hand and contemporary traditions of indigenous folk religion on the other. | introduces a terminology to make this distinction |
| Giordano Bruno | ... cis Walsingham. In the same year, he made a visit to Oxford University with | , who subsequently dedicated two books to Sidney |
| Joan Crawford | ... ring in several Kildare films. During this time, Ayres also co-starred with | and James Stewart in The Ice Follies of 1939 |
| Malcolm Fraser | ... in 1975 The Age returned to a more moderate liberal position. It supported | 's Liberal government in its early years, but after 1980 became increasing ... |
| Daniel Dennett | "Modern compatibilists", such as Harry Frankfurt and | , argue that there are cases where a coerced agent's choices are still fre ... |
| Erwin Stresemann | ... bert Ridgway in 1883, kamtschatica by Benedykt Dybowski in 1883, ambigua by | and mandschurica by Wilhelm Meise in 1934. Given the uncertainties over th ... |
| Isaac Newton | ... fied data, he kept the incomplete records under seal at Greenwich. In 1712, | , then President of the Royal Society, and Edmund Halley obtained the data ... |
| Anaximander | ... mentioned as his instructors Creophylus, Hermodamas of Samos, Bias, Thales, | , and Pherecydes of Syros. He is said too, to have been taught by a Delphi ... |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | ... every distinguished man in the world of letters, science and art, including | , Wilhelm von Humboldt, Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher, Georg Wilhe ... |
| Henri Lebesgue | ... essive stages during the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Émile Borel, | , Johann Radon and Maurice Fréchet, among others. The main applications of ... |
| Charles Sanders Peirce | ... tanley Jevons. Augustus De Morgan had worked on the logic of relations, and | integrated his work with Boole's during the 1870s. Other significant figur ... |
| John Bryan Ward-Perkins | ... ng was turning over the soil a meter deep, destroying all surface evidence. | , then Director of the British School at Rome, set into motion the South E ... |
| Newton | ... h included) orbited the Sun, but the optics (and the specific mathematics – | 's Law of Gravitation for example) necessary to provide data that would co ... |
| Wilhelm Meise | ... Benedykt Dybowski in 1883, ambigua by Erwin Stresemann and mandschurica by | in 1934. Given the uncertainties over the validity of these forms |
| William McDougall's | In support of his hypothesis, Sheldrake cites replications of | experiment with rats in a water maze and Mae-Wan Ho's replication of CH Wa ... |
| Federico Cesi | ... ished in Rome in 1603, under Pope Clement VIII by the learned Roman Prince, | (1585–1630) who was a young botanist and naturalist, and which claimed Gal ... |
| Sherburne F. Cook | Of the history of the indigenous population of California, | (1896–1974) was the most painstakingly careful researcher. From decades of ... |
| Pier Paolo Pasolini | ... fter high school, Troisi wrote some poems inspired by his favourite author, | , and, in 1969, started to play in a small local theatre together with som ... |
| Thomas Tooke | During 1820 the Merchants' Petition, written by | , was presented to the Commons demanding free trade and an end to protecti ... |
| Santiago Ramón y Cajal | ... st somehow correspond to changes inside the brain. Theorists dating back to | argued that the most plausible explanation is that learning and memory are ... |
| Hubert Dreyfus | ... are reducible to collections of rules. His work influenced the critique by | of "First Generation" Artificial Intelligence |
| Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert | ... mann the works of Novalis, Ludwig Tieck, Achim von Arnim, Clemens Brentano, | , Carlo Gozzi, and Calderon. These relatively late introductions marked hi ... |
| Thales | ... We find mentioned as his instructors Creophylus, Hermodamas of Samos, Bias, | , Anaximander, and Pherecydes of Syros. He is said too, to have been taugh ... |
| Aristotle | ... fl. 335 BC) of Tarentum was a Greek Peripatetic philosopher, and a pupil of | . Most of his writings, which dealt with philosophy, ethics and music, hav ... |
| Gough Whitlam | Perkin's editorship coincided with | 's reforms of the Australian Labor Party, and The Age became a key support ... |
| Huey P. Newton | ... aver's influence on the direction of the Party was rivaled only by founders | and Bobby Seale. Cleaver and Newton eventually fell out with each other, r ... |
| Jerome Cardan | ... n the De plantis attributed to Aristotle, and in 1557 his Exercitationes on | 's, De subtilitate. His other scientific works, commentaries on Theophrast ... |
| Joseph Liouville | ... re root of 2. As for Liouville's constant, named after French mathematician | , it was the first number to be proven transcendental |
| William Stanley Jevons | ... ole's work was extended and refined by a number of writers, beginning with. | . Augustus De Morgan had worked on the logic of relations, and Charles San ... |
| Gough Whitlam | ... was due to retire as Governor-General in July 1974, and the Prime Minister, | , needed to find a suitable replacement. His first choice, Ken Myer, decli ... |
| Hesychius | ... othrace; they were identified with the crab (karkinos) by the lexicographer | , and the adjective karkinopous ("crab-footed") signified "lame", accordin ... |
| Antoine Fourcroy | ... ed as a distinct class of biological molecules in the eighteenth century by | and others, distinguished by the molecules' ability to coagulate or floccu ... |
| Albert Einstein | The maser is based on the principle of stimulated emission proposed by | in 1917. When atoms have been induced into an excited energy state, they c ... |
| Ryōji Noyori | The prize was shared with William S. Knowles and | |
| Frank K. Edmondson | ... ad four children. Their youngest daughter, Margaret, married the astronomer | in the 1930s |
| Joseph Henry | # | , 1846–187 |
| Galileo Galilei | ... Cesi (1585–1630) who was a young botanist and naturalist, and which claimed | as its president. The current president is the microbiologist Werner Arber ... |
| Enrico Persico | ... ely. Later, Enrico befriended another scientifically inclined student named | , and the two worked together on scientific projects such as building gyro ... |
| Spencer Fullerton Baird | # | , 1878–188 |
| Arthur C. Clarke | The spacecraft Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov in | 's novel uses aerobraking in the upper layers of Jupiter's atmosphere to e ... |
| Roald Hoffmann | ... sigma and pi electrons, and has its origins in work by William Lipscomb and | for nonplanar molecules in 1962 |
| David Hume | ... happen thereafter." This restated the Scottish Enlightenment concept which | had put in 1777 as "all inferences from experience suppose ... that the fu ... |
| Gottfried Leibniz | ... highly important seventeenth-century scientists, such as Isaac Newton, and | . Newton was even accused of introducing occult agencies into natural scie ... |
| Adam Smith | ... g other than its value. In Value, Price and Profit (1865), Karl Marx quotes | and sums up |
| Henry Fonda | ... s was filmed in McDonald County. Shadow Lake was the headquarters for stars | , Tyrone Power, Nancy Kelly and Randolph Scott |
| Joan Coromines | ... iver, maybe as far east as the Mediterranean in Roman times (niska cited by | as the name of each nymph taking care of the Roman spa Arles de Tech in Ro ... |
| FACTNet | ... against Arnaldo Lerma (Virginia), Lawrence Wollersheim and Robert Penny of | (Colorado), and Dennis Erlich (California). Internationally, raids took pl ... |
| Aratus | Libra is a constellation not mentioned by Eudoxus or | . In Roman mythology, Libra is considered to depict the scales held by Ast ... |
| Claude Lévi-Strauss | ... ings. However, another version depicts them with equality and identicality. | argues that the former concept, that of twins representing opposites, is a ... |
| Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac | In 1816, along with | , he started the Annales de chimie et de physique, and in 1818 or 1819 he ... |
| Carl Friedrich Gauss | ... tism, which also drew upon theoretical work by German theoreticians such as | and Wilhelm Weber. The encapsulation of heat in particulate motion, and th ... |
| Daniel Dennett | ... Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Martin J. Sherwin, preeminent philosopher | , Nobel Laureate Allan M. Cormack (1924–1998), regular featured columnist ... |
| Louis Pasteur | ... s. Many of his correspondents became his friends, including Richard Wagner, | , Louis Agassiz, John Greenleaf Whittier, Michel Eugène Chevreul, Alexande ... |
| Marilyn Monroe | ... Happen to You. Lemmon worked with many legendary leading ladies, among them | , Natalie Wood, Betty Grable, Janet Leigh, Shirley MacLaine, Romy Schneide ... |
| Helmholtz | ... animal movement and perception. Vision interested the physicists Young and | , who also studied optics, hearing and music. Newton extended Descartes' m ... |
| Evelyn Hooker | ... coming out in the online encyclopedia glbtq.com states that sexologist Dr. | ’s observations introduced the use of "coming out" to the academic communi ... |
| Simon Schwendener | ... s organisms for quite some time, it was not until 1867, when Swiss botanist | proposed his dual theory of lichens, that the true nature of the lichen as ... |
| Carl Linnaeus | In his 18th century work Systema Naturae, | coined the specific name cucullatus, meaning hooded, but combined it with ... |
| Gaspard Monge | ... of 1809 he was chosen by the council of the École Polytechnique to succeed | in the chair of analytical geometry. At the same time he was named by the ... |
| Carl Woese | ... come a search for the universal tree or the universal ancestor, a phrase of | . The tree that results has some unusual features, especially in its roots ... |
| Arnold Chikobava | ... rm Ibero-Caucasian (or Iberian-Caucasian) was proposed by Georgian linguist | for the union of the three language families that are specific to the Cauc ... |
| Milton Friedman | ... have learned about business without a parade of teachers guiding me... from | to Donald Trump... and now, Les Wexner and Warren Buffett. I even learned ... |
| Leucippus | Democritus, along with | and Epicurus, proposed the earliest views on the shapes and connectivity o ... |
| Neil Turok | The ekpyrotic model came out of work by | and Paul Steinhardt and maintains that the universe did not start in a sin ... |
| Karl Marx | ... odity is something other than its value. In Value, Price and Profit (1865), | quotes Adam Smith and sums up |
| Michael Abercrombie | ... f the architect Patrick Abercrombie. One of his sons was the cell biologist | . A grandson, Jeff Cooper, produced an admirable bibliography of his grand ... |
| Lonnie Carton | ... featured columnist in Foreign Policy Magazine Daniel W. Drezner, radio host | and author of No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive Lee Edelman |
| Gaius Julius Hyginus | ... e name of a famous scholar, such as Apollodorus of Athens, Eratosthenes, or | , what survives is either an ancient forgery or an abridgement of the orig ... |
| Alasdair Whittle | ... al bones – the remains of domesticated animals, cat and dog. Archaeologists | and Michael Wysocki note that this period of occupation may be "significan ... |
| Young | ... origins of animal movement and perception. Vision interested the physicists | and Helmholtz, who also studied optics, hearing and music. Newton extended ... |
| Jane Goodall | ... Esteban Sarmiento, and discredited racial anthropologist Carleton S. Coon. | , in a September 27, 2002, interview on National Public Radio's "Science F ... |
| Charles Lyell | ... es from experience suppose ... that the future will resemble the past", and | memorably rephrased in the 1830s as "the present is the key to the past". ... |
| Carl Auer von Welsbach | ... ble ammonium nitrates were recrystallized from water. When later adapted by | for the splitting of didymium, nitric acid was used as a solvent to lower ... |
| George A. Miller | ... oratory of Princeton University under the direction of psychology professor | . Development began in 1985. Over the years, the project received funding ... |
| Nikola Tesla | ... aves began soon after, with the experiments conducted by physicists such as | , Jagadish Chandra Bose and Guglielmo Marconi during the 1890s leading to ... |
| Lewis Carroll | ... ed the power of putting things in brackets." Another childhood favorite was | 's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, which he called "a favourite forever. ... |
| Ptolemy | ... Manetho (3rd century B.C.) and Geminus (1st century B.C.), and included by | in his 48 asterisms. Ptolemy catalogued 17 stars, Tycho Brahe 10, and Joha ... |
| Arthur C. Clarke | ... e named his 1955 novel The Tree of Man after a line in A Shropshire Lad and | 's first novel, Against the Fall of Night, is taken from a work in Housman ... |
| Tsung-Dao Lee | ... assumed to be a universal law. However, in the mid-1950s Chen Ning Yang and | suggested that the weak interaction might violate this law. Chien Shiung W ... |
| Thomas Bartholin | In Scandinavia | and Ole Worm, the 17th century Danish scholars and Olaf Rudbeck in Sweden ... |
| Louis Couturat | ... by Johnson. Surveys of these developments were published by Ernst Schröder, | , and |
| Paul Steinhardt | The ekpyrotic model came out of work by Neil Turok and | and maintains that the universe did not start in a singularity, but came a ... |
| Paul Karrer | ... nholz discovered the chemical structure of vitamin E. It was synthesised by | |
| Garret FitzGerald | ... so put by the Irish government then led by the centre-right Fine Gael under | , and most mainstream Protestant leaders. In the debate, no one actually a ... |
| Eratosthenes | ... ing work bears the name of a famous scholar, such as Apollodorus of Athens, | , or Gaius Julius Hyginus, what survives is either an ancient forgery or a ... |
| Tycho Brahe | ... , and included by Ptolemy in his 48 asterisms. Ptolemy catalogued 17 stars, | 10, and Johannes Hevelius 20 |
| Hermann Emil Fischer | ... ine dinucleotide (NAD) and flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD), respectively. | was one of the early scientists to study adenine |
| Alan Feduccia | A small minority of researchers, such as paleornithologist | of the University of North Carolina, challenge the majority view, contendi ... |
| John Maynard Keynes | In 1921 the economist | published a book on probability theory, A Treatise of Probability. Keynes ... |
| Doctor Thirteen | The Spectre also made a guest appearance in the " | " feature in Ghosts #97-99 (Feb.-April 1981), and go on to periodic guest ... |
| Benjamin Franklin | ... amount of labor which has been expended in the improvement of commodities". | in his 1729 essay entitled "A Modest Enquiry into the Nature and Necessity ... |
| Isaac Newton | ... ly credited with being the first to develop the theory of atomism, although | preferred to credit the obscure Moschus the Phoenician (whom he believed t ... |
| Friedrich Engels | ... in Louis-Auguste Blanqui description in 1837 of la révolution industrielle. | in The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 spoke of "an indu ... |
| Geminus | ... he goddess of justice. Libra is mentioned by Manetho (3rd century B.C.) and | (1st century B.C.), and included by Ptolemy in his 48 asterisms. Ptolemy c ... |
| Richard Kirwan | Following criticism, especially the arguments from | who thought Hutton's ideas were atheistic and not logical, Hutton publishe ... |
| Dukinfield Henry Scott | ... related to the architect Elisabeth Scott. His youngest son was the botanist | |
| Claude Shannon | ... and that of later logicians initially appeared to have no engineering uses. | attended a philosophy class at the University of Michigan which introduced ... |
| Chen Ning Yang | ... nteraction; it was assumed to be a universal law. However, in the mid-1950s | and Tsung-Dao Lee suggested that the weak interaction might violate this l ... |
| James Stirling | ... nction's important functional properties, including the reflection formula. | , a contemporary of Euler, also attempted to find a continuous expression ... |
| Albrecht Kossel | It was named in 1885 by | , in reference to the pancreas (a specific gland - in Greek, "aden") from ... |
| Posidonius | ... d to be the biblical Moses) as the inventor of the idea on the authority of | and Strabo. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy notes, "This theologic ... |
| John Kenneth Galbraith | ... ch events spiralled out of control in the run up to and after independence. | , the Canadian-American Harvard University economist, who advised governme ... |
| Isaac Newton | ... y was common among highly important seventeenth-century scientists, such as | , and Gottfried Leibniz. Newton was even accused of introducing occult age ... |
| Howard Georgi | ... ics at Harvard. While at Harvard, Hagelin worked under the noted physicists | and Sheldon Glashow, best known for their work in Grand Unification theory ... |
| Aristotle's | ... BC), but only occurred in the fifth century. The standard account, found in | Athenian Constitution 22.3, attributes the establishment to Cleisthenes, a ... |
| Lewis Carroll | Alice-in-Wonderland syndrome (AIWS, named after the novel written by | ), also known as Todd's syndrome, is a disorienting neurological condition ... |
| Aristotle | Early insights in the labour theory of value appear in | ´s Politics. He developed a "theory of the value of labour", holding that ... |
| Elsie Widdowson | ... ter World War II took place according to nutritional principles drawn up by | and others. In 1941, the first Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs) were ... |
| Yang Xiong | ... texts were created and studied by scholars. Philosophical works written by | (53 BCE – 18 CE), Huan Tan (43 BCE – 28 CE), Wang Chong (27–100 CE), and W ... |
| Plato | ... ent and modern ethical thinkers, particularly of Kant and Fichte, with only | and Spinoza finding favour in his eyes. He failed to discover in previous ... |
| Karl Marx | ... early labour values theories. Some writers (including Bertrand Russell and | ) think the labour theory of value can be traced back to him. In his Summa ... |
| Descartes | | was not only a pioneer of analytic geometry but formulated a theory of mec ... |
| Joan Oró | Experiments performed in 1961 by | have shown that a large quantity of adenine can be synthesized from the po ... |
| Edmund Davy | ... yfuel welding, became well established. Acetylene was discovered in 1836 by | , but its use was not practical in welding until about 1900, when a suitab ... |
| William Warde Fowler | ... d to have been buried near the altar of Fons (ara Fontis) on the Janiculum. | observed that between 259 and 241 BC, cults were founded for Juturna, Fons ... |
| Lex Luthor | ... tomic Skull, Bizarro, Cheetah, Evil Star, Giganta, Heat Wave, Killer Frost, | , Sinestro, Star Sapphire, Toyman and Volcana. They team up with the Leagu ... |
| Robert Sternberg | ... r Tufts faculty include former American Psychological Association president | , Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Martin J. Sherwin, preeminent philosoph ... |
| Bertrand Russell | ... 's theories, produced early labour values theories. Some writers (including | and Karl Marx) think the labour theory of value can be traced back to him. ... |
| William Lipscomb | ... EHT) applies to both sigma and pi electrons, and has its origins in work by | and Roald Hoffmann for nonplanar molecules in 1962 |
| Ragnar Frisch | ... n Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 1969, which he shared with | for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of econom ... |
| Jagadish Chandra Bose | ... n after, with the experiments conducted by physicists such as Nikola Tesla, | and Guglielmo Marconi during the 1890s leading to the invention of radio |
| Joseph Needham | ... used by Chinese astronomers to describe the heavens as spherical. Historian | quotes Zhang Heng (78-139 AD) as saying |
| Sir Hans Sloane | ... al museum". Its foundations lie in the will of the physician and naturalist | (1660–1753). During the course of his lifetime Sloane gathered an enviable ... |
| George Deacon | ... ged a group of many notable scientists, including David Bates, Robert Boyd, | , John Gunn, Harrie Massey and Nevill Mott; he worked on the design of mag ... |
| Kofi Annan | ... treaty bodies. In his September 2002 report the former UN Secretary General | on 'Strengthening the United Nations; an agenda for further change' sugges ... |
| Guglielmo Marconi | ... nts conducted by physicists such as Nikola Tesla, Jagadish Chandra Bose and | during the 1890s leading to the invention of radio |
| Arnold Toynbee | ... e whole of civil society". Credit for popularising the term may be given to | , whose lectures given in 1881 gave a detailed account of it |
| George Bernard Shaw | ... w York and London based critics, including Henry Chorley, Herman Klein, and | , castigated a succession of visiting Mediterranean tenors for resorting t ... |
| Ernst Haeckel | ... dentify relationships between major groups were made in the 19th century by | , and by comparative anatomists such as Thomas Henry Huxley and E. Ray Lan ... |
| Hugh MacColl | ... ructure on equivalent statements of a propositional calculus is credited to | (1877), in work surveyed 15 years later by Johnson. Surveys of these devel ... |
| F. David Peat | ... imize their actions, and it is this misuse of history that must be exposed. | asserts that many cultural myths of North America exclude or diminish the ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | ... appointed Professor of English at the University of Leeds in preference to | , with whom he shared, as author of The Epic (1914), a professional intere ... |
| Heraclitus | ... been unaware of a Sibyl. The first known Greek writer to mention a sibyl is | , in the 5th century BC |
| Niko | ... five children of Dirk Cornelis Tinbergen and Jeannette van Eek. His brother | would also win a Nobel Prize (for physiology, during 1973) for his work in ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... . Many of the buildings represent architecture from the 1800s including the | -designed Courthouse building |
| Alfred Marshall | ... financial consultant. In 1924 Keynes wrote an obituary for his former tutor | which Schumpeter called "the most brilliant life of a man of science I hav ... |
| Zhang Heng | ... omers to describe the heavens as spherical. Historian Joseph Needham quotes | (78-139 AD) as saying |
| Dr. Temperance Brennan | In the television series Bones, forensic anthropologist | spends much of her free time writing novels about a forensic anthropologis ... |
| Michael Faraday | ... dies could be magnetized; these discoveries were completed and explained by | |
| Thomas Lovejoy | ... in the 1980s it came into common usage in science and environmental policy. | , in the foreword to the book Conservation Biology, introduced the term to ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... built a legacy bringing to Westminster College world leaders: Lech Wałęsa, | , Harry S Truman, Gerald R. Ford, Ronald W. Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Mikh ... |
| Harrie Massey | ... e scientists, including David Bates, Robert Boyd, George Deacon, John Gunn, | and Nevill Mott; he worked on the design of magnetic and acoustic mines an ... |
| Vladimir Lenin | ... to him by his forefathers. Meanwhile, underground political parties led by | (Michael Bryant), Joseph Stalin (James Hazeldine), and Leon Trotsky (Brian ... |
| Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon | ... cluded a review of alternative theories, such as those of Thomas Burnet and | |
| Charles Thomas Newton | ... o married the archeologist and Keeper of Antiquities at the British Museum, | . Mary had a successful painting career in England, supporting the family ... |
| Hamilton | ... to the possible rays of the wave." This equivalence had been pointed out by | a century earlier, and published by him around 1830, in an era where no ex ... |
| Marilyn Monroe | ... drew Sarris considers it to be "Huston's best film", and the film that made | a recognized actress. Sarris also notes the similar themes in many of Hust ... |
| Galileo | ... ntegrated with scientific knowledge from the time of Aquinas to the time of | , and that too was a deliberate program. Critics suggest that this also de ... |
| Daris Swindler | ... logist David Daegling, field biologist George Shaller, Russell Mittermeier, | , Esteban Sarmiento, and discredited racial anthropologist Carleton S. Coo ... |
| Ernst Schröder | ... 15 years later by Johnson. Surveys of these developments were published by | , Louis Couturat, and |
| Thomas Henry Huxley | ... in the 19th century by Ernst Haeckel, and by comparative anatomists such as | and E. Ray Lankester. Enthusiasm waned: it was often difficult to find evi ... |
| Karl Marx | ... ture and Necessity of a Paper Currency" is sometimes credited (including by | ) with originating the concept in its modern form. However, the theory has ... |
| Hendrik Lorentz | ... at different angles with respect to the ether. The possibility explored by | , that the ether could compress matter, thereby rendering it undetectable, ... |
| Eric Hoffer | ... tion seemed to fit reality better than the Friedrich-Brzezinski definition. | in his book The True Believer argues that mass movements like communism, F ... |
| Beppo Levi | ... obably the most important monotone convergence theorem. It is also known as | 's theorem |
| Johannes Hevelius | ... olemy in his 48 asterisms. Ptolemy catalogued 17 stars, Tycho Brahe 10, and | 20 |
| R. J. Rummel | or as ethnic cleansing. | has classified these events as democide |
| Doris Day | ... Natalie Wood, Betty Grable, Janet Leigh, Shirley MacLaine, Romy Schneider, | , Kim Novak, Judy Holliday, Rita Hayworth, June Allyson, Virna Lisi, Ann-M ... |
| Abraham Gottlob Werner | ... ries placed him into opposition with the then-popular Neptunist theories of | , that all rocks had precipitated out of a single enormous flood. Hutton p ... |
| Lewis Carroll | ... plays, novels, and translated English poetry and books into French such as | 's The Hunting of the Snark. French poet and novelist Raymond Queneau had ... |
| Milton Berle | ... y Serenade they are major members of the cast, which also features comedian | . The Miller band returned to Hollywood to film 1942's Orchestra Wives, fe ... |
| Yigael Yadin | ... ion between them and the IDF units started. In response, Ben-Gurion ordered | (acting Chief of Staff) to concentrate large forces on the Tel Aviv beach ... |
| C. D. Howe | ... on 11 April 1936. The newly created Department of Transport under Minister | desired an airline, under government control, to link cities on the Atlant ... |
| Jacques Gauthier | ... graphica. However, an alternate definition proposed by scientists including | and adherents of the Phylocode system defined Aves to include only the mod ... |
| Joseph Schumpeter | ... natively been seen as a labour theory of property. Other writers (including | ) have traced back the concept even further to Ibn Khaldun, who in his Muq ... |
| Dirac | ... 934, introduces the idea that the photon is equivalent to the fusion of two | neutrinos |
| Frank Kameny | In the 1960s, | came to the forefront of the struggle. Having been fired from his job as a ... |
| Jeffrey Weeks | Dartmouth alumni in academia include Stuart Kauffman and | , both recipients of MacArthur Fellowships (commonly called "genius grants ... |
| Edward B. Lewis | ... different groups. In a series of experiments with the fruit-fly Drosophila, | was able to identify a complex of genes whose proteins bind to the cis-reg ... |
| Béla Bartók | ... mes a specific instruction not to use it (in some of the string quartets of | for example). Furthermore, some modern classical composers, especially min ... |
| Eliade | ... beliefs are shared by all forms of shamanism. Common beliefs identified by | (1972) are the following |
| Arthur Young | ... er reputation in their writings. The leading economists of her day, such as | and Jacques Necker, became foreign members of the Free Economic Society, e ... |
| Heinrich Anton de Bary | ... t all living organisms were autonomous. Other prominent biologists, such as | , Albert Bernhard Frank, and Hermann Hellriegel were not so quick to rejec ... |
| Robert Sternberg | In 2006, Dean of Arts and Sciences | added experimental criteria to the application process for undergraduates ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | ... Sindarin: ), originally named Minas Anor, is a fictional city and castle in | 's Middle-earth writings. It became the heavily fortified capital of Gondo ... |
| Niels Bohr | After spending 1928 and 1929 in England and Denmark, working briefly with | , Hückel joined the faculty of the Technische Hochschule in Stuttgart. In ... |
| David Hume | ... nstance of begging the question. Nozick also argues that Rand's solution to | 's famous is-ought problem is unsatisfactory. In response, philosophers Do ... |
| Charles Fellows | The Harpagid Theory was initiated by | , discoverer of the Xanthian Obelisk, and person responsible for the trans ... |
| D. R. Fulkerson | The Ford–Fulkerson Method (named for L. R. Ford, Jr. and | ) is an algorithm which computes the maximum flow in a flow network. It wa ... |
| J. J. Thomson | ... s own as a compressed electron (detected in 1897 by British experimentalist | ) would prove unstable. Meanwhile, other experimenters began to detect une ... |
| Jamal Badawi | It should be noted that the website Islam Online has an article by | arguing against legal punishment of apostasy |
| Howard Georgi | ... hysics. Hagelin's move to MIU in 1984 surprised and puzzled his colleagues. | and John Ellis tried to talk him out of it. But, according to Georgi, Hage ... |
| Plato | ... as friends with Hippocrates. He may have been acquainted with Socrates, but | does not mention him and Democritus himself is quoted as saying, "I came t ... |
| John James Audubon | ... life illustration reached its peak in the 19th century with artists such as | , and today many naturalist field guides are still illustrated with waterc ... |
| Luuk | ... ysiology, during 1973) for his work in ethology, while his youngest brother | would become a famous ornithologist. Tinbergen studied mathematics and phy ... |
| Francis Crick | ... be found in the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology. In his autobiography, , | wrote about his choice of the word dogma and some of the problems it cause ... |
| d'Alembert | ... te comedies, fiction, and memoirs, while cultivating Voltaire, Diderot, and | —all French encyclopedists who later cemented her reputation in their writ ... |
| Wilhelm Röntgen | ... anwhile, other experimenters began to detect unexpected forms of radiation: | caused a sensation with his discovery of x-rays in 1895; in 1896 Henri Bec ... |
| Freimut Börngen | Asteroid 12694 Schleiermacher is named for this German theologian. See also | , German astronomer |
| John Nunn | ... who shared second. At London Lloyds' Bank Open 1984, he tied for first with | and Murray Chandler, on 7/9. He won at Reykjavík 1985. At Brussels 1985, h ... |
| Lazare Carnot | But not all the credit for the innovations of this period go to Napoleon. | played a large part in the reorganization of the French army from 1793 to ... |
| Lazare Carnot | ... ctionary cites the first English-language usage in 1799 in a translation of | 's letter on the Coup of 18 Fructidor |
| Jacob Bernoulli | In real analysis, Bernoulli's inequality (named after | ) is an inequality that approximates exponentiations of 1 + x |
| Benjamin Franklin | ... appointed a "Committee of Five", consisting of John Adams of Massachusetts, | of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, Robert R. Livingston of New ... |
| Jacques Monod | ... ord dogma caused almost more trouble than it was worth.... Many years later | pointed out to me that I did not appear to understand the correct use of t ... |
| Aristotle | ... ocritus himself is quoted as saying, "I came to Athens and no one knew me." | placed him among the pre-Socratic natural philosophers |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... arty" in the mid-1850s as homage to the values of republicanism promoted by | 's Republican party. The idea for the name came from an editorial by the p ... |
| Maximillian Arturo | His best friend Wade Welles and his professor/mentor | join him on his second test. However, the wormhole grows unstable and spir ... |
| Henri Becquerel | ... lm Röntgen caused a sensation with his discovery of x-rays in 1895; in 1896 | discovered that certain kinds of matter emit radiation on their own accord ... |
| L. R. Ford, Jr. | The Ford–Fulkerson Method (named for | and D. R. Fulkerson) is an algorithm which computes the maximum flow in a ... |
| Carleton S. Coon | ... r, Daris Swindler, Esteban Sarmiento, and discredited racial anthropologist | . Jane Goodall, in a September 27, 2002, interview on National Public Radi ... |
| David Dumville | Professor | , enquiring into the stemmatics of the recensions (he has published the Va ... |
| Joseph Fourier | Taking his mathematical cues from the heat flow work of | (and his own religious and geological convictions), Thomson believed that ... |
| Hyman Minsky | ... uffered a heart attack in 1937, requiring him to take long periods of rest. | and other post-Keynesian economists have argued that as result of this, Ke ... |
| Eugene Wigner | As | wrote: "Ten days before Fermi had died he told me, 'I hope it won't take l ... |
| James Cronin | ... articles with antiparticles). Physicists were again surprised when in 1964, | and Val Fitch provided clear evidence in kaon decays that CP symmetry coul ... |
| William Rowan Hamilton | ... of a group by generators and relations was given by the Irish mathematician | in 1856, in his Icosian Calculus – a presentation of the icosahedral group |
| Isaak Khalatnikov | ... generic situations. This view was held in particular by Vladimir Belinsky, | , and Evgeny Lifshitz, who tried to prove that no singularities appear in ... |
| Lewis Carroll | ... ild and a teenager, Gaiman read the works of C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, | , James Branch Cabell, Edgar Allan Poe, Michael Moorcock, Ursula K. Le Gui ... |
| Hugh Jackman | ... wn include Errol Flynn, Peter Finch, Rod Taylor, Mel Gibson, Nicole Kidman, | , Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett and Heath Ledger |
| Wiener | ... discovered the greenhouse effect. Von Neumann, Turing, Khinchin, Markov and | , all mathematicians, made major contributions to science and probability ... |
| Catharine MacKinnon | ... censorship. Anti-pornography feminist activists such as Andrea Dworkin and | made alliances with the religious right. This critique was adopted and mad ... |
| Hippolyte Fizeau | ... termination of the velocity of light in the manner subsequently effected by | and Léon Foucault was suggested by Arago in 1838, but his failing eyesight ... |
| Jean Baudrillard | ... Marshall Sahlins and Richard Borshay Lee; and others such as Lewis Mumford, | and Gary Snyder. Many advocates of Green anarchism and primitivism conside ... |
| Stephen Babcock | ... hat, combined with the state's suitable geography and dairy research led by | at the University of Wisconsin, helped the state build a reputation as "Am ... |
| Jeffrey Meldrum | ... ts have been less skeptical about the claims of the existence of sasquatch. | characterizes the search for Sasquatch as "a valid scientific endeavor". a ... |
| Ted Kord | ... etired superhero who utilizes owl-themed gadgets. Nite Owl was based on the | version of the Blue Beetle. Paralleling the way that Ted Kord had a predec ... |
| Christiane Fellbaum | ... lowing members of the Cognitive Science Laboratory: George Armitage Miller, | , Randee Tengi, Pamela Wakefield, Helen Langone and Benjamin R. Haskell. W ... |
| Bertrand Russell's | ... ologians. Reverend Canon Brian Hebblethwaite, for example, preached against | |
| Paul Ginsparg | The e-print archive arXiv.org (pronounced "archive") was created by | in 1991 at Los Alamos National Laboratory for the purpose of distributing ... |
| James Smithson | ... of knowledge" from a bequest to the United States by the British scientist | (c. 1765–1829), who never visited the new nation. In Smithson's will, he s ... |
| Vladimir Lenin | ... cultural minorities were taken up by the Jewish , but fiercely denounced by | . Joseph Stalin devoted a whole chapter to criticising Cultural National A ... |
| Ibn Khaldun | ... (including Joseph Schumpeter) have traced back the concept even further to | , who in his Muqaddimah (1377), described labour as the source of value, n ... |
| Noam Chomsky | ... aration opposing the invasion of Iraq (along with prominent figures such as | and Susan Sarandon); the declaration appeared in the magazine The Nation. ... |
| Arlie Russell Hochschild | ... e increased entry of women into workplaces in the 20th century. Sociologist | found that, in two-career couples, men and women, on average, spend about ... |
| Ezra Newman | ... y Kerr found the exact solution for a rotating black hole. Two years later, | found the axisymmetric solution for a black hole that is both rotating and ... |
| Markov | ... ation, and discovered the greenhouse effect. Von Neumann, Turing, Khinchin, | and Wiener, all mathematicians, made major contributions to science and pr ... |
| John Playfair | In the Spring of 1788 he set off with | to the Berwickshire coast and found more examples of this sequence in the ... |
| Mary Everest Boole | ... chose Unitarianism. Two influences on Boole were later claimed by his wife, | : a universal mysticism tempered by Jewish thought, and Indian logic.. Mar ... |
| Niles Eldredge | ... challenged by a theory of "punctuated equilibrium" put forward by Gould and | , proposing evolutionary changes could occur in relatively rapid spurts, w ... |
| Maurice Wilkins | ... e of the DNA molecule in 1953 together with James D. Watson. He, Watson and | were jointly awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine "for ... |
| Árpád Pusztai | ... lutinin. Potatoes have been genetically modified with the GNA gene. In 1998 | said in an interview on a World in Action programme that his group had obs ... |
| Leslie Alcock | ... . (* For "heap together" used Morris more recent translation as given in ). | , 1971 may have started the recent fad of using "heaped together", but he ... |
| August Cieszkowski | | focused on Hegel's view of world history and reformed it to better accommo ... |
| Clock King | ... egion are Lex Luthor, Joker, Cheetah, Weather Wizard, Felix Faust, Chronos, | , and Amazo |
| Frédéric Joliot-Curie | ... 994, the IUPAC proposed the name joliotium (Jl), after the French physicist | , which was originally proposed by Soviet team for element 102, later name ... |
| Chandran Kukathas | Some critics, such as Norman P. Barry and | , have argued that her ethics are consistent with anarcho-capitalism |
| Felix Klein | The first systematic study was given by Walther von Dyck, student of | , in the early 1880s, laying the foundations for combinatorial group theor ... |
| Hans Wiegel | ... 0. This cabinet fell after a few months. Meanwhile the charismatic young MP | had attracted considerable attention. He became the new leader of the VVD: ... |
| Yi Xing | ... and the usage of integration is far ahead of his time. Even the astronomer | 's isn't comparable to his value (who was beginning to utilize foreign kno ... |
| Nikolaas Tinbergen | ... l prize winners: poet T. S. Eliot, physicist Sir Anthony Leggett, zoologist | and chemist Frederick Soddy. Other Merton alumni are Bodleian Library foun ... |
| E. O. Wilson | ... Council (NRC). It first appeared in a publication in 1988 when entomologist | used it as the title of the proceedings of that forum |
| James D. Watson | ... a co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953 together with | . He, Watson and Maurice Wilkins were jointly awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize ... |
| Val Kilmer | ... utive Orders, Clark sarcastically suggests to reporter Robert Holtzman "Get | to play me in the movies" to which Holtzman replies "Too pretty, Nick Cage ... |
| Ray Hilborn | ... he state of the world's fisheries with one of the original study's critics, | of the at Seattle. The new study found that through good fisheries managem ... |
| Archimedes | ... writings regarding levers date from the 3rd century BC and were provided by | . "Give me a place to stand, and I shall move the Earth with a lever" is a ... |
| David G. Bromley | One camp that broadly speaking questions apostate narratives includes | , Daniel Carson Johnson |
| Khinchin | ... rared radiation, and discovered the greenhouse effect. Von Neumann, Turing, | , Markov and Wiener, all mathematicians, made major contributions to scien ... |
| Maurice, 6th duc de Broglie | ... th duc de Broglie upon the death without heir in 1960 of his older brother, | , also a physicist. He did not marry. When he died in Louveciennes, he was ... |
| Carl Ludwig Blume | ... family. Adelosa is a nomen dubium. No specimen exists and no one knows what | described as Adelosa in 1850 |
| Rudolf Clausius | ... ed thermodynamics were established through the work of the German physicist | . His statistical mechanics, which was elaborated upon by Ludwig Boltzmann ... |
| Caroline Dormon | ... come under the management of the State of Louisiana in 2007. The naturalist | helped to lay out the park |
| George Petrie | ... al milieu"; guests at their salon included Sheridan le Fanu, Charles Lever, | , Isaac Butt, William Rowan Hamilton and Samuel Ferguson |
| Walther von Dyck | The first systematic study was given by | , student of Felix Klein, in the early 1880s, laying the foundations for c ... |
| Marie Stopes | ... started in the 1910s in the U.S. under Margaret Sanger and elsewhere under | . In the final three decades of the 20th century, Western women knew a new ... |
| Matteo Ricci | ... 7–1318), the Korean official Choe Bu (1454–1504) and the Italian missionary | (1552–1610) |
| Alejandro Toledo | ... t in the Peruvian general election, 2011 by saying he was going to vote for | (Peruvian former president 2001-2006). After cast his vote, he said his co ... |
| Benjamin Franklin | ... hat help themselves", the oft-quoted maxim that also appeared previously in | 's Poor Richard's Almanac (1733–1758). In the 20th century, "Carnegie's re ... |
| Cuvier | ... in the Systema Naturae (1758) of Linnaeus. They were, however, separated by | in 1800 under the name of llama along with the guanaco. Alpacas and vicuña ... |
| Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi | ... . An opposing camp less critical of apostate narratives as a group includes | , Dr. Phillip Charles Lucas, Jean Duhaime, Mark Dunlop, Michael Langone, a ... |
| Ludwig Boltzmann | ... st Rudolf Clausius. His statistical mechanics, which was elaborated upon by | and the British physicist James Clerk Maxwell, held that energy (including ... |
| Turing | ... and infrared radiation, and discovered the greenhouse effect. Von Neumann, | , Khinchin, Markov and Wiener, all mathematicians, made major contribution ... |
| John Wheeler | The term "black hole" was first publicly used by | during a lecture in 1967. Although he is usually credited with coining the ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | As a child and a teenager, Gaiman read the works of C. S. Lewis, | , Lewis Carroll, James Branch Cabell, Edgar Allan Poe, Michael Moorcock, U ... |
| Johannes Oporinus | ... ome Basel citizen in 1526. His mother was Christina Herbster, the sister of | (Herbster) the famed humanist printer. After Zwinger’s father’s death, Chr ... |
| Albert Einstein | ... ter signed by a number of prominent Jewish figures including Hannah Arendt, | , Sidney Hook, and Rabbi Jessurun Cardozo, which described Irgun as a "a t ... |
| Addison Emery Verrill | ... cting them and figuring out Verrill's mistakes" (quoted in Schram, p. 126). | had been an earlier expert in invertebrate classification |
| John Ray | The first classification of birds was developed by Francis Willughby and | in their 1676 volume Ornithologiae |
| Ptolemy | ... are sometimes called Ptolemaic aspects since they were defined and used by | in the 1st Century, AD. These aspects are the conjunction (approx. 0-10°), ... |
| Lex Luthor | ... aseball against the Justice League International. Members of the Legion are | , Joker, Cheetah, Weather Wizard, Felix Faust, Chronos, Clock King, and Am ... |
| Otto Hahn | ... w element should be named hahnium (Ha), in honor of the late German chemist | . Consequently hahnium was the name that most American and Western Europea ... |
| Lenin | ... h, as seen in contemporary documents (for example, in the first editions of | 's complete works). In Russian, however, "переворот" has a similar meaning ... |
| Augustin-Jean Fresnel | Arago warmly supported | 's optical theories, helping to confirm Fresnel's wave theory of light by ... |
| David Mermin | ... ess and peer-reviewed journals. In his column in Physics Today, April 1992, | described Ginsparg's creation as potentially "string theory's greatest con ... |
| Alvin Hansen | ... to achieve widespread acceptance, with eminent American professors such as | agreeing with the General Theory before the outbreak of World War II |
| Bryan R. Wilson | Dr. Lonnie D. Kliever (1932–2004), Gordon Melton, and | . An opposing camp less critical of apostate narratives as a group include ... |
| Noah Webster | ... in the 1630s and 1640s". The first two notebooks were published in 1790 by | . The third notebook, long thought lost, was rediscovered in 1816, and the ... |
| Russell Mittermeier | ... e legend are anthropologist David Daegling, field biologist George Shaller, | , Daris Swindler, Esteban Sarmiento, and discredited racial anthropologist ... |
| Francis Willughby | The first classification of birds was developed by | and John Ray in their 1676 volume Ornithologiae |
| Anaxagoras | ... ounder of the atomism, was the greatest influence upon him. He also praises | . Diogenes Laertius says that he was friends with Hippocrates. He may have ... |
| Varro | ... tius' Divine Institutions (i.6, 4th century AD, quoting from a lost work of | , 1st century BC) these ten sibyls were those in the following list. Of th ... |
| Frederick Soddy | ... ot, physicist Sir Anthony Leggett, zoologist Nikolaas Tinbergen and chemist | . Other Merton alumni are Bodleian Library founder Thomas Bodley, the Oxfo ... |
| Sir Hans Sloane | ... ed in 1753, largely based on the collections of the physician and scientist | . The museum first opened to the public on 15 January 1759 in Montagu Hous ... |
| Von Neumann | ... ied heat flow and infrared radiation, and discovered the greenhouse effect. | , Turing, Khinchin, Markov and Wiener, all mathematicians, made major cont ... |
| Michel Gauquelin | The writings of Françoise and | on the significance of planetary configurations in the astrological chart ... |
| Jack Weatherford | ... s “sparsely inhabited, unused, and underdeveloped.” American anthropologist | says that on Columbus Day Americans celebrate the greatest waves of genoci ... |
| Charles Lyell | ... evolutionary play is performed. Darwin studied evolution in the context of | 's geology, but our present understanding of Earth history includes some c ... |
| Stefan Banach | ... mathematics, especially functional analysis, a Banach algebra, named after | , is an associative algebra A over the real or complex numbers which at th ... |
| John Bidwell | ... e events as the most seminal in Chico history. They included the arrival of | in 1850, the arrival of the California and Oregon Railroad in 1870, the es ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... 1817), and who had handled the Louisiana Purchase as Secretary of State for | . At the time that Madison County was organized, the land south of Saline ... |
| Archimedes | This is the law of the lever, which was proven by | using geometric reasoning. It shows that if the distance a from the fulcru ... |
| James Bardeen | Work by | , Jacob Bekenstein, Carter, and Hawking in the early 1970s led to the form ... |
| Niels Bohr | ... roposed the name nielsbohrium (Ns) in honor of the Danish nuclear physicist | . The American team proposed that the new element should be named hahnium ... |
| Anaxagoras | Belief in a flat Earth continued into the 5th-century BC. | (c. 450 BC) agreed that the Earth was flat, and his pupil Archelaus believ ... |
| Max Planck | ... s included the wave-particle duality theory of matter, based on the work of | and Albert Einstein on light. The thesis examiners, unsure of the material ... |
| Leo Ruickbie | ... ion from his true magical partner, Edith Woodford-Grimes. Ronald Hutton and | have concluded that Clutterbuck is unlikely to have been involved in Gardn ... |
| James T. Richardson | Some scholars have attempted to classify apostates of NRMs. | proposes a theory related to a logical relationship between apostates and ... |
| Jerry F. Hough | ... ng historians, some of whose more prominent members are Sheila Fitzpatrick, | , William McCagg, Robert W. Thurston, and J. Arch Getty. Though their indi ... |
| Julian Huxley | ... s Symbionticism and the origin of species; and there was a brief mention by | in 1930; all in vain because sufficient evidence was lacking. Symbiosis as ... |
| Charles Wheatstone | ... e details of his apparatus, which utilized the relaying mirrors employed by | in 1835 for measuring the velocity of the electric discharge; but owing to ... |
| Leonardo da Vinci | ... o Lippi and Angelico; Botticelli, Paolo Uccello and the universal genius of | and Michelangelo |
| Jack Hanna | ... ction programming, including new series by wildlife experts Jeff Corwin and | |
| Charles Darwin | ... local foraminifera (single-celled protists with shells), corresponded with | , and had two gastropods (snails or slugs) named after him |
| Andrew Huxley | ... electrical properties of nerve cells, culminating in work by Alan Hodgkin, | , and others on the biophysics of the action potential, and the work of Be ... |
| Gauss | An alternative notation which was originally introduced by | and which was sometimes used is the Pi function, which in terms of the gam ... |
| Brian J. Ford | ... presenter, Adrian Durham; and the biologist, author and broadcaster, Prof. | , who attended the King's School and still lives in Eastrea near Whittlese ... |
| Linnaeus | The Barn Swallow was described by | in his Systema Naturae in 1758 as Hirundo rustica, characterised as H. rec ... |
| Lewis Carroll | ... mous examples of using gibberish in literature is the poem "Jabberwocky" by | |
| Léon Theremin | ... l fingering," largely devised by Clara Rockmore and subsequently adapted by | and his protege, Lydia Kavina. It employs specific hand and finger positio ... |
| Robert Marshak | ... on and renormalization theory suggested a new approach was needed. In 1957, | and George Sudarshan and, somewhat later, Richard Feynman and Murray Gell- ... |
| T. S. Ashton | ... Britain in the 1780s and was not fully felt until the 1830s or 1840s, while | held that it occurred roughly between 1760 and 1830 |
| David Ricardo | ... labour that could be purchased by selling it), then profit was impossible. | (seconded by Marx) responded to this paradox by arguing that Smith had con ... |
| Michael Langone | ... njamin Beit-Hallahmi, Dr. Phillip Charles Lucas, Jean Duhaime, Mark Dunlop, | , and |
| Johannes Theodor Reinhardt | ... lly been suggested for the dodo, including to ostriches and vultures, until | proposed they were ground doves, based on studies of a dodo skull in Copen ... |
| Victor Shestakov | ... s the basic concept that underlies all modern electronic digital computers. | at Moscow State University (1907–1987) proposed a theory of electric switc ... |
| Alan Vince | ... and most impressive defences overlooking Saxon London, which archaeologist | suggests was deliberate. It would have visually dominated the surrounding ... |
| David Bensusan-Butt | ... ched and indexed by one of Keynes's favourite students, later the economist | . The work served as a theoretical justification for the interventionist p ... |
| Aristotle | ... be printed. In 1556 he printed his Dialogue on the De plantis attributed to | , and in 1557 his Exercitationes on Jerome Cardan's, De subtilitate. His o ... |
| Leidy | ... extinct Tertiary fauna of North America, as interpreted by paleontologists | , Cope, and Marsh, aided understanding of the early history of this family ... |
| Charles Wilkes | The United States Exploring Expedition under | visited Funafuti, Nukufetau and Vaitupu in 1841. During this expedition, o ... |
| Pliny the Elder | Much of what we know of Apelles is derived from | (Natural History, XXXV). His skill at drawing the human face is the point ... |
| Peter Kropotkin | ... elated to the work and ideas of Murray Bookchin and influenced by anarchist | . Social ecologists assert that the present ecological crisis has its root ... |
| Weierstrass | ... owing infinite product definitions for the gamma function, due to Euler and | respectively, are valid for all complex numbers z, except the non-positive ... |
| Albert Ghiorso | In the same year, a team led by | working at the University of California, Berkeley conclusively synthesized ... |
| Fourier | ... nsive formulation of classical mechanics and investigated light and optics. | founded a new branch of mathematics — infinite, periodic series — studied ... |
| Joshua Lederberg | The role of symbiosis in cell evolution was revived partly by | , and finally brought to light by Lynn Margulis in a series of papers and ... |
| Claude Shannon | ... osed a theory of electric switches based on Boolean logic even earlier than | in 1935 on the testimony of Soviet logicians and mathematicians Yanovskaya ... |
| Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot | The thermodynamic definition of temperature, due to | , refers to heat "flowing" between "infinite reservoirs". This is all high ... |
| Plato | ... asis on human emotion and the imagination. Meanwhile he studied Spinoza and | , both of whom were important influences. He became more indebted to Kant, ... |
| Leucippus | ... ers in his writings, and his wealth enabled him to purchase their writings. | , the founder of the atomism, was the greatest influence upon him. He also ... |
| Albert Einstein | ... wave-particle duality theory of matter, based on the work of Max Planck and | on light. The thesis examiners, unsure of the material, passed his thesis ... |
| James Clerk Maxwell | ... cs, which was elaborated upon by Ludwig Boltzmann and the British physicist | , held that energy (including heat) was a measure of the speed of particle ... |
| Hugh Edwin Strickland | This view was later supported by | and Melville after a dissection of the preserved head and foot from a stuf ... |
| Adam Smith | Scottish economist | accepted the LTV for pre-capitalist societies but saw a flaw in its applic ... |
| Ole Worm | In Scandinavia Thomas Bartholin and | , the 17th century Danish scholars and Olaf Rudbeck in Sweden were the fir ... |
| Euler | The following infinite product definitions for the gamma function, due to | and Weierstrass respectively, are valid for all complex numbers z, except ... |
| Leibniz | ... tended Descartes' mathematics by inventing calculus (contemporaneously with | ). He provided a comprehensive formulation of classical mechanics and inve ... |
| Legendre | The notation \Gamma(z) is due to | . If the real part of the complex number z is positive (Re(z) > 0), then t ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... from "Oggie" to "Ozzie," in honour of Peter Osgood, the soccer player. When | came to power in Britain in 1979 a variation of the chant ("Maggie Maggie ... |
| George Armitage Miller | ... et team includes the following members of the Cognitive Science Laboratory: | , Christiane Fellbaum, Randee Tengi, Pamela Wakefield, Helen Langone and B ... |
| Anaximander | ... cippus (c. 440 BC) and Democritus (c. 460–370 BC) believed in a flat Earth. | (c. 550 BC) believed the Earth to be a short cylinder with a flat, circula ... |
| John Chadwick | ... However, the dā element is not so simply equated with "earth" according to | |
| Murray Gell-Mann | ... obert Marshak and George Sudarshan and, somewhat later, Richard Feynman and | proposed a V−A (vector minus axial vector or left-handed) Lagrangian for w ... |
| Lynn Margulis | ... ion was revived partly by Joshua Lederberg, and finally brought to light by | in a series of papers and books. Some organelles are recognized as being o ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | | came to office in 1979 believing in free markets as a better social system ... |
| Richard Feynman | ... s needed. In 1957, Robert Marshak and George Sudarshan and, somewhat later, | and Murray Gell-Mann proposed a V−A (vector minus axial vector or left-han ... |
| Leucippus | ... to Aristotle. According to Aristotle, pre-Socratic philosophers, including | (c. 440 BC) and Democritus (c. 460–370 BC) believed in a flat Earth |
| R. H. Barlow | ... s works, especially his later works. Lovecraft had specified that the young | would serve as executor of his literary estate, but these instructions had ... |
| R. J. Rummel | ... mately 1.7 million, which was about 21 percent of the country's population. | , an analyst of historical political killings, gives a figure of 2 million ... |
| Christof Koch | ... manuscript on his death bed, a scientist until the bitter end" according to | |
| Steve Wozniak | Some of these celebrities include: Apple co-founder | , writer and actor Wil Wheaton, and id Software technical director |
| Democritus | ... o Aristotle, pre-Socratic philosophers, including Leucippus (c. 440 BC) and | (c. 460–370 BC) believed in a flat Earth |
| Professor Xavier | ... ept of the X-Men is that under a cloud of increasing anti-mutant sentiment, | created a haven at his Westchester mansion to train young mutants to use t ... |
| Aristotle | ... sidered the world to be flat, at least according to Aristotle. According to | , pre-Socratic philosophers, including Leucippus (c. 440 BC) and Democritu ... |
| Mr. Spock | ... en." Barrett often joked that Roddenberry, given the choice between keeping | (whom the network also hated) or the woman character, "kept the Vulcan and ... |
| Bernard Katz | ... xley, and others on the biophysics of the action potential, and the work of | and others on the electrochemistry of the synapse. These studies complemen ... |
| Charles Howard Hinton | ... glish Dictionary, the word "tesseract" was coined and first used in 1888 by | in his book A New Era of Thought, from the Greek ("four rays"), referring ... |
| Jacob Grimm | ... word for "east". It has been connected to the Anglo-Saxon goddess Eostre by | in his Deutsche Mythologie |
| Michael H. Hart | ... chain reaction, after which he became known as "father of the atomic bomb". | ranked him No. 76 in his list of the most influential figures in history |
| Bertrand Russell | ... ome of his most influential friends, including H. G. Wells, Arnold Bennett, | and Sassoon. Sassoon (Patient B in Conflict and Dream), remained particula ... |
| Theophrastus | ... ticularly mentions the Egyptian mathematicians, whose knowledge he praises. | , too, spoke of him as a man who had seen many countries. During his trave ... |
| Newton | ... physicists Young and Helmholtz, who also studied optics, hearing and music. | extended Descartes' mathematics by inventing calculus (contemporaneously w ... |
| Robert Hübner | ... e tied for 1st–4th places with 8½/13, with Yuri Balashov, Ulf Andersson and | . He shared first at Baden, Vienna in 1980, on 10½/15 with Alexander Belia ... |
| Thales | | believed the earth was flat and floated in water like a log |
| Michael Faraday | | formulated that electromotive force (EMF) produced around a closed path is ... |
| George Sudarshan | ... ion theory suggested a new approach was needed. In 1957, Robert Marshak and | and, somewhat later, Richard Feynman and Murray Gell-Mann proposed a V−A ( ... |
| Frank B. Jewett | ... boratories, Inc., as a separate entity. The first president of research was | , who stayed there until 1940. The ownership of Bell Laboratories was even ... |
| Johannes Kepler | ... he traditional minor aspects, introduced by the famed astronomer/astrologer | in the 16th Century AD, were long considered to be of relatively secondary ... |
| Léon Foucault | ... locity of light in the manner subsequently effected by Hippolyte Fizeau and | was suggested by Arago in 1838, but his failing eyesight prevented his arr ... |
| Claude E. Robinson | In 1948, with | , he founded Gallup and Robinson, Inc., an advertising research company |
| Michael Faraday | ... mers, induction motors, electric motors, synchronous motors, and solenoids. | is generally credited with the discovery of induction in 1831 though it ma ... |
| Wang Chong | ... al works written by Yang Xiong (53 BCE – 18 CE), Huan Tan (43 BCE – 28 CE), | (27–100 CE), and Wang Fu (78–163 CE) questioned whether human nature was i ... |
| Edmund Wilson | ... uctures in multicellular organisms. Books around 1900 from Valentin Häcker, | and Oscar Hertwig still referred to cellular organs |
| Doris Day | ... on film. It also has unconfirmed references to That Touch of Mink, starring | and Cary Grant |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... ins". By the time the later series were made the Conservative government of | was in power, and fewer political observations were made against governmen ... |
| Claude Bernard | ... ates (sugars), fats (fatty acids) and proteins (amino acids.) In the 1860s, | discovered that body fat can be synthesized from carbohydrate and protein, ... |
| Georg Simmel | ... c interactionism, and post-structuralism, with the work of thinkers such as | and . Foucault was a great reader of Kierkegaard even though he almost nev ... |
| John Dalton | ... in places such as the newly established Royal Institution in London, where | argued for an atomistic interpretation of chemistry, Thomas Young argued f ... |
| Henry Cavendish | ... cape was first put forward by geologist John Michell in a letter written to | in 1783 of the Royal Society |
| Christian Goldbach | ... n-integer arguments was apparently first considered by Daniel Bernoulli and | in the 1720s, and was solved at the end of the same decade by Leonhard Eul ... |
| Pierre-Simon Laplace | In 1796, mathematician | promoted the same idea in the first and second editions of his book Exposi ... |
| Wilfred Trotter | ... he "strange new subject called psychoanalysis", he met and was impressed by | , an outstanding brain surgeon who had also written the famous Instincts o ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | ... the story is sometimes explained internally, as in The Lord of the Rings by | , which depicts the Red Book of Westmarch (a story-internal version of the ... |
| T. F. O'Rahilly | ... ckwater, and connected the name to the nearby barony of Duhallow. Professor | in 1938 interpreted Magh Eala as "plain of the swans". This false etymolog ... |
| Ludwig Prandtl | ... dary layer turbine, cohesion-type turbine, and Prandtl layer turbine (after | ). Bioengineering researchers have referred to it as a multiple disk centr ... |
| Roland Barthes | ... roir de littérature potentielle) group of experimental writers where he met | , Georges Perec, and Claude Lévi-Strauss, all of whom influenced his later ... |
| Oscar Lewis | ... d, Zavattini written for the screen The Children of Sanchez (1978) based on | ’s book of the same title, a classic study of a Mexican family |
| H. R. Haldeman | On April 30, Nixon asked for the resignation of | and John Ehrlichman, two of his most influential aides, both of whom were ... |
| Helmut Schmidt | ... llowing year, Canada joined the group at the behest of Germany's Chancellor | and U.S. President Gerald Ford and the group became the Group of Seven (G7 ... |
| Oliver Stone | ... or Razzie Award. After that film's success, Harrelson played Mickey Knox in | 's Natural Born Killers and Dr. Michael Raynolds in the Michael Cimino fil ... |
| Daniel Bernoulli | ... g the factorial to non-integer arguments was apparently first considered by | and Christian Goldbach in the 1720s, and was solved at the end of the same ... |
| Claude Shannon | ... nted by Gilbert Vernam and Joseph Mauborgne at the laboratories. Bell Labs' | later proved that it is unbreakable |
| Rachel Bromwich | One of the Welsh Triads, 35 by | 's numbering, establishes a different family connection for Arianrhod. Her ... |
| Susie Dent | ... intended to name his new band 'Mad Dog'. According to Oxford lexicographer | , Moon and Entwistle were speculating with Page about the possible formati ... |
| James D. Watson | ... lk Institute, La Jolla, near San Diego, California; guest speakers included | , Sydney Brenner, Alex Rich, the late Seymour Benzer, Aaron Klug, Christof ... |
| Painter | ... togonia and 48 in oogonia, concluding an XX/XO sex determination mechanism. | in 1922 was not certain whether the diploid number of humans was 46 or 48, ... |
| Francesco Zantedeschi | ... ery of induction in 1831 though it may have been anticipated by the work of | in 1829. Around 1830 to 1832 Joseph Henry made a similar discovery, but di ... |
| David Ricardo | ... ts held the labour theory of value as it is commonly defined. For instance, | theorized that prices are determined by the amount of labour but found exc ... |
| Isidore of Seville | ... egislation known as the False Decretals, which was once attributed to Saint | , is largely composed of forgeries. All of what it presents as letters of ... |
| Alan Dershowitz | ... presentatives of Fascist Italy, offering to cooperate against the British." | wrote in his book The Case for Israel that unlike the Haganah, the policy ... |
| Leonhard Euler | ... tian Goldbach in the 1720s, and was solved at the end of the same decade by | . Euler gave two different definitions: the first was not his integral but ... |
| Albert Einstein | In 1915, | developed his theory of general relativity, having earlier shown that grav ... |
| Richard Dawkins | ... have included Peter Maxwell Davies, Lily Allen, Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, | , Cleo Laine, Christopher Hitchens, Peter Hitchens, Kathy Burke, Stephen F ... |
| Rollo May | An early contributor to existentialist psychology in the United States was | , who was strongly influenced by Kierkegaard and Otto Rank. One of the mos ... |
| Sir John Lubbock | ... ion relating to bank holidays was passed when Liberal politician and banker | introduced the Bank Holidays Act 1871, which specified the days in the tab ... |
| Stanley Temple | ... true age could not be determined because Tambalacoque has no growth rings. | hypothesized that the Dodo, which became extinct in the 17th century, ate ... |
| David Bohm | ... bilistic models which dominate quantum mechanical theory; it was refined by | in the 1950s |
| Aristotle | ... f science and described an early scientific method of inquiry. He discusses | 's Posterior Analytics and significantly diverged from it on several point ... |
| Nylander | ... . Many of the leading lichenologists at the time, such as James Crombie and | , rejected Schwendener's hypothesis because the common consensus was that ... |
| W. Edwards Deming | In his managerial and statistical writings, | placed great importance on the value of using operational definitions in a ... |
| Joseph Henry | ... ticipated by the work of Francesco Zantedeschi in 1829. Around 1830 to 1832 | made a similar discovery, but did not publish his findings until later |
| Nikola Tesla | The Tesla turbine is a bladeless centripetal flow turbine patented by | in 1913. It is referred to as a bladeless turbine because it uses the boun ... |
| Irvin D. Yalom | ... writers on techniques and theory of existentialist psychology in the USA is | . Yalom states tha |
| John Ehrlichman | On April 30, Nixon asked for the resignation of H. R. Haldeman and | , two of his most influential aides, both of whom were indicted, convicted ... |
| Darwin | 230 years before | 's theory of evolution, the appearance of the dodo and the red rail led Pe ... |
| Jacques Philippe Marie Binet | ... of his formula that correct the error were given by Stirling himself and by | |
| Arthur C. Clarke | ... rnment's lower house is selected by sortition. In Songs of Distant Earth by | , the futuristic society on Thalassa is ruled by demarchy |
| Otto Rank | ... United States was Rollo May, who was strongly influenced by Kierkegaard and | . One of the most prolific writers on techniques and theory of existential ... |
| Friedrich Wöhler | ... elements by those we know today. It first came under question in 1824, when | synthesized oxalic acid, a compound known to occur only in living organism ... |
| Sydney Brenner | ... Jolla, near San Diego, California; guest speakers included James D. Watson, | , Alex Rich, the late Seymour Benzer, Aaron Klug, Christof Koch, Pat Churc ... |
| Ira Remsen | ... sleeve and Charles D. Morris; the economist Richard T. Ely; and the chemist | , who became the second president of the university in 1901 |
| Randolph Quirk | Furthermore, | and Gabriele Stein thought about a Nuclear English, which, however, has ne ... |
| Horace-Bénédict de Saussure | ... ormities had been noted by Nicolas Steno and by French geologists including | , who interpreted them in terms of Neptunism as "primary formations". Hutt ... |
| Aristotle | ... of the classical Greeks. Authors who mention the oracle include Aeschylus, | , Clement of Alexandria, Diodorus, Diogenes, Euripides, Herodotus, Julian, ... |
| Harvey | ... ch as the development of ideas about the circulation of blood from Galen to | . The flowering of genetics and molecular biology in the 20th century is r ... |
| Ruud Lubbers | ... its total up to 36. It entered again cabinet with the CDA under CDA-leader | . The cabinet began a program of radical reform of the welfare state, whic ... |
| Theophrastus | ... erome Cardan's, De subtilitate. His other scientific works, commentaries on | ' De causis plantarum and Aristotle's History of Animals, he left in a mor ... |
| Karl Schwarzschild | ... shown that gravity does influence light's motion. Only a few months later, | found a solution to Einstein field equations, which describes the gravitat ... |
| Lewis Carroll | ... s referred to as the Cheshire Cat principle, after the fading to a smile of | 's Cheshire Cat. It is expected that a first-principles solution of the eq ... |
| François Magendie | In 1816, | discovered that dogs fed only carbohydrates and fat lost their body protei ... |
| Ptolemy | ... considers the possibility of an imperfect sphere, "shaped like a pinecone". | derived his maps from a curved globe and developed the system of latitude, ... |
| Maurice Wilkins | ... urned down Francis Crick from working at King's College.) Francis Crick and | of King's College were personal friends, which influenced subsequent scien ... |
| Vasily Petrov | In 1802, Russian scientist | discovered the electric arc and subsequently proposed its possible practic ... |
| James Prescott Joule | ... eory of Lazare and Sadi Carnot, and Émile Clapeyron; the experimentation of | on the interchangeability of mechanical, chemical, thermal, and electrical ... |
| Bernhard Riemann | Both formulas were derived by | in his seminal 1859 paper "Über die Anzahl der Primzahlen unter einer gege ... |
| John Ellis | ... aborative work in particle physics continued until 1994. Anderson says that | , director of CERN, was worried about guilt by association. Anderson quote ... |
| Richard T. Ely | ... classical scholars Basil Gildersleeve and Charles D. Morris; the economist | ; and the chemist Ira Remsen, who became the second president of the unive ... |
| B. F. Skinner | ... y of operant conditioning with pigeons. Starting in the 1940s, initiated by | at Harvard University, the keys were mounted vertically behind a small cir ... |
| Viktor Frankl | ... fluenced by Freud, Edmund Husserl, Heidegger and Sartre. A later figure was | , who briefly met Freud and studied with Jung as a young man. His logother ... |
| Grafton Elliot Smith | ... ct and Dream which was published a year after his death by his close friend | |
| Harry Dexter White | ... the final outcomes accorded more closely to the more conservative plans of | . According to US economist Brad Delong, on almost every point where he wa ... |
| Nicolas Steno | The existence of angular unconformities had been noted by | and by French geologists including Horace-Bénédict de Saussure, who interp ... |
| J. Robert Oppenheimer | ... e — Jemez Springs, New Mexico. In the end, Dudley's choice was overruled by | , a physicist and the scientific director of the Manhattan Project. He fav ... |
| Eugene Wigner | ... in distances himself from mathematical platonism, and gives his reaction to | 's "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences" |
| Werner Meyer-Eppler | ... sity of Cologne, and later studied with Olivier Messiaen in Paris, and with | at the University of Bonn. One of the leading figures of the Darmstadt Sch ... |
| Rob Pike | ... rom the Plan 9 from Bell Labs operating system, designed and implemented by | . It can use the sam command language. The design of the interface was inf ... |
| George Fordyce | ... monstrating that the oxidation of food is the source of body heat. In 1790, | recognized calcium as necessary for fowl survival. In the early 19th centu ... |
| David Crystal | There are also some who reject both linguistic imperialism and | 's theory of the neutrality of English. They argue that the phenomenon of ... |
| Mary Haas | ... es south of Salinas (his dissertation was supervised by pioneering linguist | ). He taught linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara be ... |
| Aristotle | Thus, in Racine the hamartia, which the thirteenth chapter of | ’s Poetics had declared a characteristic of tragedy, is not merely an acti ... |
| Charles Newton | ... ulers of ancient Lycia, among them the Nereid and Payava monuments. In 1857 | was to discover the 4th-century BC Mausoleum of Halikarnassos, one of the ... |
| Andrei Sakharov | ... s the Soviet Union where the dissidents, such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and | were under strong pressure from the government. While satire of everyday l ... |
| Philip J. Davis | ... st prominent mathematicians of all time. Its history, notably documented by | in an article that won him the 1963 Chauvenet Prize, reflects many of the ... |
| Michael Faraday | ... emistry, Thomas Young argued for the interpretation of light as a wave, and | established the phenomenon of electromagnetic induction. Meanwhile, the an ... |
| Alfred Wegener | ... way from each other, a phenomenon first observed as continental drift. When | first presented a hypothesis of continental drift in 1912, conservative ge ... |
| Pierre-Simon Laplace | ... ght to escape were first considered in the 18th century by John Michell and | . The first modern solution of general relativity that would characterize ... |
| Massimo Introvigne | ... s. Richter has been criticized for his biased and propaganda-style writing. | in his Defectors, Ordinary Leavetakers and Apostates defines three types o ... |
| Howard Hawks | ... perhaps best known for her role as a fast-talking newspaper reporter in the | screwball comedy His Girl Friday, as well as the role of Mame Dennis in th ... |
| Ma Jun | ... inting chariot device was first invented by the Chinese mechanical engineer | (c. 200-265 AD). It was a wheeled vehicle that incorporated an early use o ... |
| Anaxagoras | ... nes Laërtius ix.41, Democritus said that he was a "young man (neos)" during | ' old age (circa 440–428). It was said that Democritus' father was so weal ... |
| Condoleezza Rice | ... ct Israelis to do the same thing." On December 28, 2008, Secretary of State | said in a statement: "the United States strongly condemns the repeated roc ... |
| Adrien-Marie Legendre | The name gamma function and the symbol \Gamma were introduced by | around 1811; Legendre also rewrote Euler's integral definition in its mode ... |
| Mary Pickford | ... seeing Rudolph Valentino in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) and | in Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921), and changed the spelling of her name to ... |
| Vladimir Lenin | ... in which the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party (bolshevik) headed by | toppled the Kerensky government in what they believed to be the first blow ... |
| Aaron Klug | ... cluded James D. Watson, Sydney Brenner, Alex Rich, the late Seymour Benzer, | , Christof Koch, Pat Churchland, Vilayanur Ramachandran, Tomaso Poggio, th ... |
| Humphry Davy | ... nded to believe was a unified and organic Nature. The English scientist Sir | , a prominent Romantic thinker, said that understanding nature required “a ... |
| Pierre-Simon Laplace | ... ntment of secretary to the Paris Observatory. He now became acquainted with | , and through his influence was commissioned, with Jean-Baptiste Biot, to ... |
| H. Newell Martin | ... an, Gilman recruited internationally known luminaries such as the biologist | ; the physicist Henry A. Rowland (the first president of the American Phys ... |
| Yury Luzhkov | Russia's officials are similarly adverse to Pride Parades. Mayor of Moscow | has repeatedly banned marches, calling them "satanic". Pride participants ... |
| Plato | ... ry or anthropology. In a prominent example from Ancient Greece, philosopher | , when asked by a friend for a book to understand Athenian society, referr ... |
| Edwin B. Hart | ... alth, but which the body cannot synthesize. In 1907, Stephen M. Babcock and | conducted the single-grain experiment, which took nearly four years to com ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | ... its abbreviated title The Hobbit, is a fantasy novel and children's book by | . It was published on 21 September 1937 to wide critical acclaim, being no ... |
| Pliny the Elder | ... f Kos (flourished 4th century BC) was a renowned painter of ancient Greece. | , to whom we owe much of our knowledge of this artist (Naturalis Historia ... |
| S. H. Foulkes | ... psychoanalysis of groups were then taken up and developed by others such as | , Rickman, Bridger, Main and Patrick De Mare. The entire group at Tavistoc ... |
| Hans Sloane | ... The first written record in English of the use of the word 'avocado' was by | in a 1696 index of Jamaican plants. The plant was introduced to Indonesia ... |
| John Wesley Powell | ... up of settlers from Panguitch investigated the area, meeting members of the | expedition. Powell's group recommended any new community be named Escalant ... |
| Andrew Wiles | ... , the Oxford Calculators, Director-General of the BBC Mark Thompson and Sir | who proved Fermat's Last Theorem. , a famous Canadian neurosurgeon had als ... |
| Keith Devlin | Mathematician | and a restaurant industry association The Center for Consumer Freedom argu ... |
| Karl Schwarzschild | ... ion of general relativity that would characterize a black hole was found by | in 1916, although its interpretation as a region of space from which nothi ... |
| Semmelweis | ... childbirth was spread by the hands of doctors and nurses, four years before | in Europe. There are many compelling stories in medicine and biology, such ... |
| Albert Einstein | ... 998, and others have been produced for the birthdays of notable people like | , historical events like the interlocking Lego block's 50th anniversary an ... |
| Julius Robert von Mayer | ... k was soon allied with the theories of similar work by the German physician | and physicist and physiologist Hermann von Helmholtz on the conservation o ... |
| Giordano Bruno | Many Christian writers, including Lactantius, Augustine, | , Marsilio Ficino, Campanella and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola considered ... |
| Arthur C. Clarke | ... 25 seconds into the flight there was an "[U]nscheduled yaw-lift maneuver": | wrote several years later that Mariner 1 was "wrecked by the most expensiv ... |
| Charles Babbage | ... orge Everest) of Indian thought on Boole, as well as Augustus De Morgan and | |
| Frederic Bartlett | Not only Sassoon, but his patients as a whole, loved him and his colleague | wrote of hi |
| Claude Lévi-Strauss | ... oup of experimental writers where he met Roland Barthes, Georges Perec, and | , all of whom influenced his later production. That same year, he turned d ... |
| Jean-Baptiste Biot | ... with Pierre-Simon Laplace, and through his influence was commissioned, with | , to complete the meridian arc measurements which had been begun by J. B. ... |
| Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière | ... n 20 October 1792 a letter was read before the National Convention in which | , interior minister, proposed that the furnishings of the palace and those ... |
| Joris Voorhoeve | ... blamed on Nijpels, who stood down as leader of the VVD. He was succeeded by | . In 1989 the CDA-VVD cabinet fell over a minor point. In the subsequent e ... |
| Jean-Martin Charcot | ... was deeply impressed by the pioneering work in neurology done by Professor | , having attended his lectures at the Salpêtrière hospital |
| Cornelius Lanczos | ... d has been criticized as cumbersome by some (the 20th-century mathematician | , for example, called it "void of any rationality" and would instead use z ... |
| Patrick De Mare | ... p and developed by others such as S. H. Foulkes, Rickman, Bridger, Main and | . The entire group at Tavistock had in fact been taken into the army, and ... |
| Oxford Calculators | ... Soddy. Other Merton alumni are Bodleian Library founder Thomas Bodley, the | , Director-General of the BBC Mark Thompson and Sir Andrew Wiles who prove ... |
| David Hume | ... ence for their own products. Following their lead, the Scottish philosopher | used Ogilby's work to illustrate the idea that common sense frequently app ... |
| Christof Koch | ... D. Watson, Sydney Brenner, Alex Rich, the late Seymour Benzer, Aaron Klug, | , Pat Churchland, Vilayanur Ramachandran, Tomaso Poggio, the late Leslie O ... |
| Karl Marx | ... began essentially as a reaction to the Industrial Revolution. According to | , industrialisation polarised society into the bourgeoisie (those who own ... |
| Terror management theory | ... s from existentialist psychology and shares many of the fundamental tenets. | , based on the writings of Ernest Becker and Otto Rank, is a developing ar ... |
| John B. Johnson | ... to New York. In 1928 the thermal noise in a resistor was first measured by | , and Harry Nyquist provided the theoretical analysis. (This is now referr ... |
| Stephen Hawking | ... . A scientific theory can be thought of as a model of reality. According to | in A Brief History of Time, "a theory is a good theory if it satisfies two ... |
| Bishop Colenso | ... gly began to regard King Cetshwayo, who now found no defender in Natal save | , as having permitted such "outrages," and to be in a "defiant mood. |
| Carver Mead | Structured VLSI design is a modular methodology originated by | and Lynn Conway for saving microchip area by minimizing the interconnect f ... |
| Isaac Asimov | ... led the Empire novels or trilogy) is a science fiction sequence of three of | 's earliest novels, and extended to one short story. They are connected by ... |
| Max Henius | ... ed in 1911 by a group of Americans of Danish descent. The effort was led by | , a Danish-American biochemist. In 1912 the park was given to the Danish s ... |
| Giuseppe Colombo | ... er, inspired by the orbital mechanics calculations of the Italian scientist | , put the spacecraft into an orbit that repeatedly brought it back to Merc ... |
| Carl Friedrich Gauss | | rewrote Euler's product a |
| Galileo | ... s and quantum mechanics. Many mathematically inclined scientists, including | , were also musicians |
| John Stuart Mill | Finally, with the help of contemporaries such as | and Catherine Helen Spence, Hare popularised the idea of proportional repr ... |
| Harry Nyquist | ... the thermal noise in a resistor was first measured by John B. Johnson, and | provided the theoretical analysis. (This is now referred to as "Johnson no ... |
| Hermann von Helmholtz | ... the German physician Julius Robert von Mayer and physicist and physiologist | on the conservation of forces |
| Karl Weierstrass | ... estigated the connection between the gamma function and elliptic integrals. | further established the role of the gamma function in complex analysis, st ... |
| Raymond Aron | ... u, Walter Laqueur, Karl Popper, Eckhard Jesse, Leonard Schapiro, Adam Ulam, | , Claude Lefort, Richard Löwenthal, Hannah Arendt, Robert Conquest, Karl D ... |
| Augustus De Morgan | ... uence (via her uncle George Everest) of Indian thought on Boole, as well as | and Charles Babbage |
| Paul Davidson | ... greater emphases on worker friendly policies and re-distribution. Robinson, | and Hyman Minsky were notable for emphasising the effects on the economy o ... |
| John Bidwell | The City of Chico was founded in 1860 by | , a member of one of the first wagon trains to reach California in 1843. D ... |
| John Stuart Mill | ... ition, in which the specific concept is defined as a measurable occurrence. | pointed out the dangers of believing that anything that could be given a n ... |
| Lynn Conway | ... ructured VLSI design is a modular methodology originated by Carver Mead and | for saving microchip area by minimizing the interconnect fabrics area. Thi ... |
| Albert Einstein | ... apes. Some of the voices to be found include Thomas Edison, Amelia Earhart, | , and Oscar Wilde. Bird Library is also home to the largest collection of ... |
| Irvin D. Yalom | The existentialist psychotherapist | has identified what he refers to as the four "givens" or ultimate concerns ... |
| Noah Webster | ... d Norman-influenced spellings such as centre and colour; on the other hand, | 's first guide to American spelling, published in 1783, preferred spelling ... |
| Manmohan Singh | ... ssimilated in cosmopolitan areas. India presently has a Sikh Prime Minister | |
| Max Rubner | In the early 20th century, Carl Von Voit and | independently measured caloric energy expenditure in different species of ... |
| Seymour Benzer | ... uest speakers included James D. Watson, Sydney Brenner, Alex Rich, the late | , Aaron Klug, Christof Koch, Pat Churchland, Vilayanur Ramachandran, Tomas ... |
| Léon Theremin | ... contact from the player. It is named after its Russian inventor, Professor | , who patented the device in 1928. The controlling section usually consist ... |
| Hero of Alexandria | ... cientists added the inclined plane to the five simple machines described by | . The force required to lift the load is reduced by pulling it up the ramp ... |
| Cheetah (comics) | ... resembled Darth Vader's helmet. In Doomsday after Sinestro, Black Manta and | are abandoned by the rest of the Legion they take control of a mental devi ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | Author | was a Merton Professor of English Language and Literatur |
| Rajendra Kumar Pachauri | ... otable alumni with involvement in politics. Combining science and politics, | is the elected chief of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an orga ... |
| Data | ... ryone, except Doctor Tolian Soran, has been killed by Romulans. The android | , who recently installed a chip that enables emotions, helps engineer Geor ... |
| Alan Cooper | On March 6, 1988 | showed Bill Gates his shell prototype that allowed widgets to be added dyn ... |
| Gilbert Vernam | ... "Johnson noise".) During the 1920s, the one-time pad cipher was invented by | and Joseph Mauborgne at the laboratories. Bell Labs' Claude Shannon later ... |
| George Boole | ... acHale, in his George Boole: his life and work (1985, Boole Press) suggests | may have been a model for Moriarty |
| Plato | ... Euripides, Herodotus, Julian, Justin, Livy, Lucan, Ovid, Pausanias, Pindar, | , Plutarch, Sophocles, Strabo, Thucydides, and Xenophon |
| Stephen Jay Gould | ... elieving that anything that could be given a name must refer to a thing and | and others have criticized psychologists for doing just that. A committed ... |
| Camillo Golgi | ... n most eukaryotic cells. It was identified in 1898 by the Italian physician | and named after him |
| Reiner Hartenstein | ... When introducing the hardware description language KARL in the mid' 1970s, | coined the term "structured VLSI design" (originally as "structured LSI de ... |
| Albertus Magnus | ... uslim psychology and theory of knowledge influenced William of Auvergne and | , while his metaphysics had an impact on the thought of Thomas Aquinas |
| Paul Davidson | ... ced to a large degree by Michał Kalecki, Joan Robinson, Nicholas Kaldor and | . Keynes's biographer Lord Skidelsky writes that the Post Keynesian school ... |
| Christopher J. Date | ... model which itself is a precursor to creating or enhancing a database (see | "An Introduction to Database Systems"). There are a number of different ap ... |
| Mary Pickford | ... ra Falls (because "all honeymooners went there"), and to Douglas Fairbanks, | , and Charlie Chaplin in Hollywood, Chaplin creating a widely seen home mo ... |
| Samuel Johnson | ... fluential lexicographers (dictionary writers) on each side of the Atlantic. | 's dictionary of 1755 greatly favoured Norman-influenced spellings such as ... |
| Camillo Golgi | ... served in detail. The apparatus was discovered in 1898 by Italian physician | during an investigation of the nervous system. After first observing it un ... |
| Emmy van Deurzen | ... of a European version of existentialist psychotherapy is the British-based | |
| Arnim Zola | ... ath." The Skull later fought Doctor Doom on the moon but was defeated. With | , the Skull sought to transplant Hitler's brain into Captain America's bod ... |
| Désiré Charnay | ... rchaeological excavations were conducted in the 1880s by French antiquarian | . A twenty year archaeological project under Jorge Acosta of Mexico's Nati ... |
| Sir Humphry Davy | ... that would burn without causing an explosion. At the same time, Cornishman | , the eminent scientist was also looking at the problem. Despite his lack ... |
| John Michell | ... massive that even light could not escape was first put forward by geologist | in a letter written to Henry Cavendish in 1783 of the Royal Society |
| Thomas Carlyle | ... rongly, and many would say harmfully, influenced by Romanticism. In English | was a highly influential essayist who turned historian, and both invented ... |
| Christiaan Eijkman | In 1896, Eugen Baumann observed iodine in thyroid glands. In 1897, | worked with natives of Java, who also suffered from beriberi. Eijkman obse ... |
| James Callaghan | ... any references to the policy of the Labour governments of Harold Wilson and | , with comments like "My top lip went all stiff and dead, as if it had bee ... |
| Keith Murdoch | In October 1915, the journalist | reported on the situation in Gallipoli at Fisher's request, and advised hi ... |
| Dmitri Mendeleev | In 1871, existence of gallium was first predicted by Russian chemist | , who named it "eka-aluminium" on the basis of its position in his periodi ... |
| Heraclides Ponticus | ... that the Greeks at first seemed to have known only one Sibyl, and instances | as the first ancient writer to distinguish several Sibyls: Heraclitus name ... |
| John Kendrew | ... with a Medical Research Council studentship, until he joined Max Perutz and | at the Cavendish Laboratory. The Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge was und ... |
| Peter Debye | ... t the forefront of scientific investigation of new phenomena and materials. | received a degree in electrical engineering and a doctorate in physics bef ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... of a secret Latin motto. William and Mary alumnus and third U.S. President | was perhaps the most famous member of the F.H.C.; other notable members of ... |
| Aristotle | Around 330 BC, | maintained on the basis of physical theory and observational evidence that ... |
| Asa Gray | ... a strong interest in flowers, which she learned to classify with a copy of | 's . She also collected butterflies and moths and later wrote, "I believe ... |
| David Dumville | ... y the supposed Arthurian connection to the site. Following the arguments of | , Alcock felt the site was too late and too uncertain to be a tenable Came ... |
| Paul Samuelson | ... ate 1930s and 1940s, economists (notably John Hicks, Franco Modigliani, and | ) attempted to interpret and formalise Keynes's writings in terms of forma ... |
| Paul Davidson | ... in the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics (founded by Sidney Weintraub and | ), the Cambridge Journal of Economics, the Review of Political Economy and ... |
| Des MacHale | ... o abstruse that no one could criticise it, was published in September 1914. | , in his George Boole: his life and work (1985, Boole Press) suggests Geor ... |
| Jacob Christian Schäffer | ... he January 1752 issue of "The Gentlemen's Magazine," a British publication. | 's washing machine design was published 1767 in Germany. In 1782, Henry Si ... |
| Robert Duvall | ... f. It starred Natasha Richardson as Offred, Faye Dunaway as Serena Joy, and | as The Commander (Fred) |
| Béla Bartók | ... classical music rather late, thanks to his teachers at university. He cites | , Igor Stravinsky, Perotin, Leonin, Claude Debussy and Organum musical sty ... |
| John Wesley Powell | The first recorded ascent was in 1868 by the surveying party of | . The East Face of the mountain is quite steep, and is surmounted by a gig ... |
| Luboš Motl | ... string theory. The book was criticized by physicists Joseph Polchinski and | |
| Plato | ... nevertheless well known to his fellow northern-born philosopher Aristotle. | is said to have disliked him so much that he wished all his books burned. ... |
| Kristian Birkeland | ... t, became a subject of academic research within the study of solar physics. | explained the physics of aurora by creating artificial aurora in his labor ... |
| Franco Modigliani | In the late 1930s and 1940s, economists (notably John Hicks, | , and Paul Samuelson) attempted to interpret and formalise Keynes's writin ... |
| Sigmund Freud | Rivers's methods are often, somewhat unfairly, said to have stemmed from | (essays such as gladly compare the two) however, this is not truly the cas ... |
| Carl Friedrich Gauss | Following an indication of | , Rocktaeschel (1922) proposed for lngamma an approximation for large Re(z ... |
| Albert Frey-Wyssling | In 1978, | suggested that the term organelle should refer only to structures that con ... |
| Joseph Polchinski | ... te about the merits of string theory. The book was criticized by physicists | and Luboš Motl |
| Augustus De Morgan | ... plagiarism for verbatim copying without acknowledgment by Jacob Thomasius. | later called it "the true parent of all the Encyclopædias, or collections ... |
| Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran | Gallium was discovered spectroscopically by | in 1875 by its characteristic spectrum (two violet lines) in an examinatio ... |
| Gheorghe Marinescu | Between July 1898 and 1901 the Romanian professor | made several science films in his neurology clinic in Bucharest: The walki ... |
| Paul Davidson | ... ndency, and the key differences between the primary and industrial sectors. | follows Keynes closely in placing time and uncertainty at the centre of th ... |
| Melanie Klein | ... analysis increased, he underwent training analysis, between 1946–1952, with | . He met his second wife, Francesca, at the Tavistock in 1951. He joined a ... |
| John Polkinghorne | ... tion of black holes. In his book Questions of Truth, the particle physicist | has another difficulty with Smolin's thesis, in that one cannot impose the ... |
| Aristotle | ... ocritus was nevertheless well known to his fellow northern-born philosopher | . Plato is said to have disliked him so much that he wished all his books ... |
| Lafayette Mendel | ... amins) and named vitamin C as the then-unknown substance preventing scurvy. | and Thomas Osborne also performed pioneering work on vitamins A and B. In ... |
| John Hicks | In the late 1930s and 1940s, economists (notably | , Franco Modigliani, and Paul Samuelson) attempted to interpret and formal ... |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | An early German influence came from | , whose 1774 novel The Sorrows of Young Werther had young men throughout E ... |
| Paolo Matthiae | In 1964, a team of Italian archaeologists under the direction of | of the University of Rome La Sapienza performed a series of excavations of ... |
| Eratosthenes | The Earth's circumference was first determined around 240 BC by | . Eratosthenes knew that in Syene, in Egypt, the Sun was directly overhead ... |
| Bill James | Once asked if he thought Henderson was a future Hall of Famer, statistician | replied, "If you could split him in two, you'd have two Hall of Famers. |
| Larry Page | ... such as with Google Image Search. Google Search was originally developed by | and Sergey Brin in 1997. Google Search provides at least 22 special featur ... |
| Adrien-Marie Legendre | ... Bernoulli, Leonhard Euler, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Pierre-Simon Laplace, and | . At the end of the century, the members of the French Academy of Sciences ... |
| Plato | Like Heraclitus, | speaks of only one Sibyl, but in course of time the number increased to ni ... |
| Taylor Booth | ... eir 1949 book "The Mathematical Theory of Communication". Another source is | in his 1967 book "Sequential Machines and Automata Theory". Another possib ... |
| Saunders Mac Lane | | , one of the founders of category theory, is said to have remarked, "I did ... |
| Amanda Woodward | ... ncy run by Hillary Michaels (played by Linda Gray), the mother of Melrose's | . An updated version of the series, also called Melrose Place, premiered o ... |
| Walter A. Shewhart | In 1924, Bell Labs physicist Dr. | proposed the control chart as a method to determine when a process was in ... |
| James R. Schlesinger | ... t Fighter (ACF) competition in an announcement by U.S. Secretary of Defense | in April 1974. Schlesinger also made it clear that any ACF order would be ... |
| Xu Shen | ... Ban Zhao (45–116 CE). There were dictionaries such as the Shuowen Jiezi by | (c. 58 – c. 147 CE) and the Fangyan by Yang Xiong. Biographies on importan ... |
| Samuel Johnson | ... of Jonathan Swift, v. 13, Oxford UP, 1959, p. 123), a sentiment with which | agreed. Historian said in 1977 that More was "the first great Englishman w ... |
| Marlon Brando | ... Sundance Kid's character before. Warren Beatty was then considered, as was | , but the role of Sundance eventually went to the lesser-known Redford. (I ... |
| Plato | ... , so they would not remember their past lives. The Myth of Er at the end of | 's Republic tells of the dead arriving at the "plain of Lethe", through wh ... |
| Ptolemy | ... m that was used for terrestrial maps in the same way as Marinus of Tyre and | , who were contemporaries |
| Mircea Eliade | ... ve been a dominant religious practice for humanity during the Palaeolithic. | writes, "A first definition of this complex phenomenon, and perhaps the le ... |
| Spock | Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley declined to appear. Their lines, as | and McCoy, were modified for Doohan and Koenig. In Scotty's case, it creat ... |
| Joan Robinson | ... subsequent development was influenced to a large degree by Michał Kalecki, | , Nicholas Kaldor and Paul Davidson. Keynes's biographer Lord Skidelsky wr ... |
| James Callaghan | ... sh from the Industrial North East and Northern Irish. Former Prime Minister | 's father was a Protestant from Northern Ireland. Similarly, some of the l ... |
| Thor Heyerdahl | Many species were introduced to the Galápagos by pirates. | quoted documents that mention the Viceroy of Peru, knowing that British pi ... |
| Srinivasa Ramanujan | ... vogue, and was appointed to a chair partly on the strength of this result. | wrote about generalisations of the binomial theorem, and earned a reputati ... |
| Elmer McCollum | In 1913, | discovered the first vitamins, fat soluble vitamin A, and water soluble vi ... |
| Karl Dietrich Bracher | The German historian | , whose work is primarily concerned with Nazi Germany, argues that the "to ... |
| Nikola Tesla | ... 30 km, was installed at Cerchi, Italy. At an AIEE meeting on May 16, 1888, | delivered a lecture entitled , describing the equipment which allowed effi ... |
| Charles Samuel Myers | ... d his official post as Lecturer in Experimental Psychology in favour of Dr. | , and now held only a lectureship on the physiology of the special senses. ... |
| Rexford Tugwell | Even so, New Dealer | later remarked that although no one would say so at the time, "practically ... |
| Rupert Murdoch | ... une 2007 Lewis-Smith's company made a programme featuring an interview with | , funded by Murdoch's Sky1 channel: How TV Changed Football Forever (Guard ... |
| Max Perutz | ... Bridget Fell, with a Medical Research Council studentship, until he joined | and John Kendrew at the Cavendish Laboratory. The Cavendish Laboratory at ... |
| Prandtl | ... an be compressed. Some other methods are isentropic compressions, including | -Meyer compressions. The method of compression of a gas results in differe ... |
| Michał Kalecki | ... es, although its subsequent development was influenced to a large degree by | , Joan Robinson, Nicholas Kaldor and Paul Davidson. Keynes's biographer Lo ... |
| Bengt Lidforss | Later, both terms came to be used side by side: | wrote 1915 (in German) about "Organs or Organells" |
| Pim Fortuyn | ... larized Dutch general election of 2002, dominated by the rise and murder of | , the VVD lost fourteen seats, leaving only twenty-four. The VVD nonethele ... |
| Alfred Winslow Jones | ... om short selling (this law was lifted in 1997). A few years later, in 1949, | founded a fund (that was unregulated) that bought stocks while selling oth ... |
| David Hume | ... rous first-class minds in the sciences including John Playfair, philosopher | and economist Adam Smith. Hutton held no position in Edinburgh University ... |
| Leucippus | ... Thrace, Greece. He was an influential pre-Socratic philosopher and pupil of | , who formulated an atomic theory for the cosmos |
| Casimir Funk | In 1912, | coined the term vitamin, a vital factor in the diet, from the words "vital ... |
| Carl Sagan | ... he charting/graphing routines were written in Forth by Jeremy Sagan (son of | ) and the printing routines by Paul Funk (founder of Funk Software) |
| J. Val Klump | The first person to reach the deep bottom of Lake Michigan was | , a scientist at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Klump reached the ... |
| Oscar Hertwig | and | still referred to cellular organs |
| John Maynard Keynes | ... s is a school of economic thought with its origins in The General Theory of | , although its subsequent development was influenced to a large degree by ... |
| Jan van Vliet | ... no-one dares to utter his name." Another 17th-century writer, the Dutchman | , remarked that the King of Siam was "honoured and worshipped by his subje ... |
| Leslie Alcock | ... aeological dig in the 20th century. These excavations, led by archaeologist | from 1966–70, were titled "Cadbury-Camelot," and won much media attention, ... |
| Louis Agassiz | ... m the fossils that are found in the limestone along the Iowa River. In 1866 | , a Harvard University zoologist, gave a lecture at the nearby University ... |
| Pythagoras | ... nt authorities in the doxographic tradition credited the Greek philosophers | , in the 6th century BC, and Parmenides, in the 5th, with recognizing that ... |
| Carl Friedrich Gauss | ... f the academic papers are reversed, they describe real mathematical events. | wrote a famous paper on the dynamics of an asteroid in his early 20s, whic ... |
| Oliver Stone | ... shot for the film World Trade Center, starring Nicolas Cage and directed by | , with Glen Rock having had 11 residents who were killed in the September ... |
| Henry Sidgwick | ... y" as our highest concern. Such an inclusion would pave the way for ethics. | longed for the fusion of ethics and rationality and, while Parfit admits t ... |
| Alexander Graham Bell | ... is Pasteur, Louis Agassiz, John Greenleaf Whittier, Michel Eugène Chevreul, | , Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Arthur de Gobineau, Frédéric Mistral, Alessa ... |
| Dumville | ... tten in his name in certain manuscripts. However, more recent scholarship ( | , 1985) dismisses the Nennian preface as a late forgery, and argues for ch ... |
| Clemens Timpler | "In the works of authors like | of Heidelberg and Steinfurt, Bartolomaeus Keckermann of Heidelberg and Dan ... |
| John Playfair | ... ment, and fell in with numerous first-class minds in the sciences including | , philosopher David Hume and economist Adam Smith. Hutton held no position ... |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | ... illaise" as a major motif in his overture Hermann und Dorothea, inspired by | , and quotes it, in waltz rhythm, in the first movement of Faschingsschwan ... |
| Richard Goldschmidt | ... sion to the possibility of acquired traits. Many years later the geneticist | put the case forward as an example of evolution by saltation, bypassing in ... |
| John Michell | ... too strong for light to escape were first considered in the 18th century by | and Pierre-Simon Laplace. The first modern solution of general relativity ... |
| Nicholas Barbon | ... n 1630 he married his wife Sarah, with whom he would have at least one son, | |
| Nicander | ... n attacks Artemis while hunting on Chios, and the Scorpion kills him there. | , in his Theriaca, has the scorpion of ordinary size and hiding under a sm ... |
| Percy Williams Bridgman | ... terms of the operations that count as measuring it. The term was coined by | and is a part of the process of operationalization. One might use definiti ... |
| Joseph Black | ... s through the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He was particularly friendly with | , and the two of them together with Adam Smith founded the Oyster Club for ... |
| Joan Robinson | ... ideas and insights. However even in the early years Post Keynesians such as | sought to distance themselves from Keynes himself and much current Post Ke ... |
| Simon Newcomb | ... hat Doyle based his fictional character Moriarty on the American astronomer | . Newcomb was revered as a multitalented genius, with a special mastery of ... |
| Alexander von Humboldt | ... s were over. The first letter he received, while in the lazaretto, was from | ; and this was the origin of a connection which, in Arago's words, lasted ... |
| Pliny the Elder | ... around topsy-turvy under the Earth to be absurd. But by the 1st century AD, | was in a position to claim that everyone agrees on the spherical shape of ... |
| William Cumming Rose | In the 1930s, | identified essential amino acids, necessary protein components which the b ... |
| Léon Theremin | ... a young Russian physicist named Lev Sergeivich Termen (known in the West as | ) in October 1920 after the outbreak of the Russian civil war. After a len ... |
| Adam Smith | ... cholars point to Keynes as representing the ideals of modern liberalism, as | represented the ideals of classical liberalism. After the war Winston Chur ... |
| Hermann Minkowski | ... than 2 n d(L) contains a non-zero lattice point. The theorem was proved by | in 1889 and became the foundation of the branch of number theory called th ... |
| Isaac Asimov | ... the "Most overrated" and "Most underrated" authors, Thomas Disch identified | and Gene Wolfe, respectively, writing: "...all too many have already gone ... |
| David Bohm | ... ect and real physical interpretation of matter-waves, following the work of | . The de Broglie-Bohm theory is today the only interpretation giving real ... |
| Carl Joachim Friedrich | ... , Richard Löwenthal, Hannah Arendt, Robert Conquest, Karl Dietrich Bracher, | and Juan Linz describe totalitarianism in slightly different ways. They al ... |
| Michel Eugène Chevreul | ... ding Richard Wagner, Louis Pasteur, Louis Agassiz, John Greenleaf Whittier, | , Alexander Graham Bell, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Arthur de Gobineau, F ... |
| Sir William Hamilton | ... an to lessen when in 1772 the Museum acquired its first antiquities of note | ;'s collection of Greek vases. During the few years after its foundation t ... |
| Albert Szent-Györgyi | ... vitamin D, for which he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1928. In 1928, | isolated ascorbic acid, and in 1932 proved that it is vitamin C by prevent ... |
| Karl Dietrich Bracher | ... ond Aron, Claude Lefort, Richard Löwenthal, Hannah Arendt, Robert Conquest, | , Carl Joachim Friedrich and Juan Linz describe totalitarianism in slightl ... |
| John Kenneth Galbraith | ... ing on a scale sufficient to eliminate unemployment. According to economist | (then a US government official charged with controlling inflation), in the ... |
| Nicholas Kaldor | ... elopment was influenced to a large degree by Michał Kalecki, Joan Robinson, | and Paul Davidson. Keynes's biographer Lord Skidelsky writes that the Post ... |
| Mary Somerville | ... t in 1833, and it was first published in Whewell's anonymous 1834 review of | 's On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences published in the Quarterly Re ... |
| Adam Smith | ... the sciences including John Playfair, philosopher David Hume and economist | . Hutton held no position in Edinburgh University and communicated his sci ... |
| Nicolaus Copernicus | ... , and teacher. He is perhaps best known for his trigonometric tables and as | 's sole pupil. He facilitated the publication of his master's De revolutio ... |
| Stanley Coren | ... epts of "intelligence" and "obedience" in discussions of canine brainpower. | 's survey of canine obedience trainers, published in the book The Intellig ... |
| Chris Lambertsen | A total of 3,319 graduates were commissioned during World War II. Dr. | held the first closed-circuit oxygen SCUBA course in the United States for ... |
| William Hamilton | ... ion towards its collection of antiquities, since its foundation, was by Sir | (1730–1803), British Ambassador to Naples, who sold his collection of Gree ... |
| Leonard Susskind | ... d debate refers to the series of intense postings in 2004 by Lee Smolin and | , concerning Smolin’s argument: "[The] Anthropic Principle cannot yield an ... |
| Gerrit Zalm | ... stal stood down, and was replaced by the popular former minister of finance | . After a few months Zalm "pulled the plug" on the VVD-CDA-LPF-cabinet, af ... |
| Sergey Brin | ... ogle Image Search. Google Search was originally developed by Larry Page and | in 1997. Google Search provides at least 22 special features beyond the or ... |
| Pavel Chekov | ... he year 2293, recently retired Captain James T. Kirk, Montgomery Scott, and | attend the maiden voyage of the Starship USS Enterprise-B. During the voya ... |
| Claudius Ptolemaeus | ... e Nile one must travel to reach it. Maps of Egypt, based on the 2nd century | ' mammoth work Geographia, have been circling in Europe since the late 14t ... |
| Zbigniew Brzezinski | The political scientists Carl Friedrich and | were primarily responsible for expanding the usage of the term in universi ... |
| Gerald Posner | ... Pepper's claims that the government killed King. He is supported by author | who has researched and written about the assassination. In 2003, William P ... |
| Pavel Polian | ... he Soviet archives have been accessible to researchers. The Russian scholar | in 2001 published an account of the deportations during the Soviet era, , ... |
| William Osler | ... become major figures in the emerging field of academic medicine, including | , William Halsted, Howard Kelly, and William Welch. During this period Hop ... |
| Greg Fleet | ... some of the best stand-up comedians from around the world with the likes of | , Akmal Saleh, Gina Yashere and Jeff Green in sold-out performances. Local ... |
| William Whewell | English philosopher and historian of science | coined the term scientist in 1833, and it was first published in Whewell's ... |
| Peter Woit | ... . In the same year as that in which The Trouble with Physics was published, | also published a book for nonspecialists, whose conclusion was similar to ... |
| Aratus | ... ed either Artemis or the Hyperborean maiden Opis in her band of huntresses. | 's brief description, in his Astronomy, conflates the elements of the myth ... |
| Dr. Alan Ashton | ... Young University (BYU) graduate student, and BYU computer science professor | joined forces to design a word processing system for the city of Orem's Da ... |
| Béla Bartók | ... as Le chant de la pauvreté op. 92 in 1928 and Veni creator op. 123 in 1938. | composed the secular Cantata Profana, subtitled "The Nine Splendid Stags" ... |
| Vannoccio Biringuccio | ... lacksmiths pounded heated metal repeatedly until bonding occurred. In 1540, | published De la pirotechnia, which includes descriptions of the forging op ... |
| Adam Smith | of his hopes that | 's 'invisible hand' can help Britain out of the economic hole it is in: "I ... |
| Joseph Black | ... ngs of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in two parts, the first by his friend | on 7 March 1785, and the second by himself on 4 April 1785. Hutton subsequ ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | ... because I'd read it." One work that made a particular impression on him was | 's The Lord of the Rings from his school library, although it only had the ... |
| Juan Linz | ... Arendt, Robert Conquest, Karl Dietrich Bracher, Carl Joachim Friedrich and | describe totalitarianism in slightly different ways. They all agree, howev ... |
| Makoto Kobayashi | ... could be broken too, winning them the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics. In 1973, | and Toshihide Maskawa showed that CP violation in the weak interaction req ... |
| Hyman Minsky | ... n worker friendly policies and re-distribution. Robinson, Paul Davidson and | were notable for emphasising the effects on the economy of the practical d ... |
| Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus | ... ed that trace amounts of copper are necessary for iron absorption. In 1927, | synthesized vitamin D, for which he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 19 ... |
| Antiphon | ... ly less known because they are more technical and legal are the orations by | , Demosthenes, Lysias, Isocrates and many others. The Attic Greek of the p ... |
| Linus Pauling | ... 25. Bragg was influential in the effort to beat a leading American chemist, | , to the discovery of DNA's structure (after having been 'pipped-at-the-po ... |
| William Lyon Mackenzie King | ... hat St-Laurent finally agreed to enter politics when Liberal Prime Minister | appealed to his sense of duty in late 1941 |
| Louis Agassiz | ... correspondents became his friends, including Richard Wagner, Louis Pasteur, | , John Greenleaf Whittier, Michel Eugène Chevreul, Alexander Graham Bell, ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien's | ... play somewhat similar to Dungeons & Dragons, and a storyline reminiscent of | The Lord of the Rings. Later, two other games were released in this series ... |
| Crates of Mallus | In the 2nd century BC, | devised a terrestrial sphere which divided the Earth into four continents, ... |
| Otto Rank | ... list psychology and psychoanalysis, which first crystallized in the work of | , Freud's closest associate for 20 years. Without awareness of the writing ... |
| John Ellis | ... move to MIU in 1984 surprised and puzzled his colleagues. Howard Georgi and | tried to talk him out of it. But, according to Georgi, Hagelin "continued ... |
| Adolphe Quetelet | ... e of body fat. It was devised between 1830 and 1850 by the Belgian polymath | during the course of developing "social physics". Body mass index is defin ... |
| Bertrand Russell | ... uch as lecturing at Birkbeck College, University of London. The philosopher | took an interest in Vivienne while the newlyweds stayed in his flat. Some ... |
| George Bernard Shaw | ... n 1956, Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady first appeared. Their adaptation of | 's Pygmalion, with the leads, Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle, being pla ... |
| Kang the Conqueror | ... im a truly cosmic threat. He was further aided by Korvac, who was posing as | . He was sent to Galactus' ship to steal more power (in particular the pow ... |
| Ralph Hartley | ... in part on earlier work in the field by Bell researchers Harry Nyquist and | , but it greatly extended these. Bell Labs also introduced a series of inc ... |
| Averroes | ... ert was received at Paris as an authority equal to Aristotle, Avicenna, and | , leading Bacon to proclaim that "never in the world [had] such monstrosit ... |
| Tom Duff | ... les the Bourne shell, but its syntax is somewhat simpler. It was created by | , who is better known for an unusual C programming language construct call ... |
| Georges Cuvier | ... ssible at the time due to religious reasons, and would not become so before | demonstrated it as fact, but also because many scientists doubted the dodo ... |
| William Everson | ... indbergh, George Gershwin and Charlie Chaplin. Later visitors have included | , Robert Bly, Czesław Miłosz and Edward Abbey |
| Lex Luthor | The Legion of Doom is a group of supervillains led by | that appeared in Challenge of the Super Friends, an ABC animated series th ... |
| Jean Baudrillard | ... of the second half of the 20th century. The seminal work in this respect is | 's (b.1929) L'échange symbolique et la mort (1976), in which Baudrillard c ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... continued to hold him in high regard as a moral teacher (see, for example, | 's famous Jefferson Bible and Matthew Tindal's Christianity as Old as the ... |
| René Descartes | ... ipotent would mean the omnipotent being is above logic. A view supported by | He issues this idea in his Meditations on First Philosophy |
| Al-Kindi | ... as Ptolemy, earlier Persian and Muslim scientists and philosophers such as | (Alkindus), Al-Farabi (Alfarabi) and Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī |
| Amihai Mazar | ... design and build. Other archaeologists in Israel, including Amnon Ben-Tor, | , William Dever and Lawrence Stager, reject this theory, claiming that it ... |
| Lacépède | ... defined by Linnaeus. It was later assigned as the type species of Dugong by | and further classified within its own family by Gray and subfamily by |
| Johann Baptiste Horvath | ... ical approximation. A representative contemporary textbook was published by | . By the end of the century analytical treatments were rigorous enough to ... |
| Paul Volcker | ... ree year contraction of the money supply by the Federal Reserve Board under | , initiated in the last year of Carter's presidency, and long term easing ... |
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| Alhazen | ... and lenses. His research in optics was primarily oriented by the legacy of | through a Latin translation of the latter's monumental Kitab al-manazir (D ... |
| Rollo Beck | ... tember 1904, an expedition of the Academy of Sciences of California, led by | , stayed in the Galápagos collecting scientific material on geology, entom ... |
| John Evelyn | ... in his Tour of the whole Island of Great Britain (1724) wrote of the City: | (1620–1706) Royalist, Traveller and Diarist wrote to Sir Thomas Browne |
| Richard Trevithick | ... ding inventors. Watt's monopoly may have prevented other inventors, such as | , William Murdoch or Jonathan Hornblower, from introducing improved steam ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | In 1989, U.S. Ambassador Charles Price and British Prime Minister | dedicated a bronze statue of Eisenhower in Grosvenor Square, London. The s ... |
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| Adam Smith's | ... the development of the political and sociological analyses, culminating in | The Wealth of Nations. One of the main arguments for capitalism, presented ... |
| Milton Friedman | ... cluded Austrian school economist Ludwig von Mises along with the then young | . Initially the society had little impact on the wider world – Hayek was t ... |
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| James Clerk Maxwell | In 1873 Heaviside had encountered | 's newly published, and today famous, two-volume Treatise on Electricity a ... |
| Thomas Nagel | Recently, | has elaborated on the concept of original position, arguing that social et ... |
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| John Harsanyi | ... concept of the original position was first used by the Hungarian economist | . Harsanyi claimed that a person in the original position would maximize h ... |
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| Ferdinand Georg Frobenius | ... he subfield with p elements. It is called the Frobenius automorphism, after | |
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| Weierstrass | ... me in mathematics until the late 19th century. The epsilon-delta version of | and Cauchy developed a rigorous formulation of the logic and calculus invo ... |
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| Albert Einstein | In August 1939 Leó Szilárd prepared and | signed the famous letter warning President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the pr ... |
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| Brandon Carter | ... both rotating and electrically charged. Through the work of Werner Israel, | , and David Robinson the no-hair theorem emerged, stating that a stationar ... |
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| Charles Darwin | In 1959, the centenary year of | 's publication of The Origin of Species, the Ecuadorian government declare ... |
| Oliver Stone | After several delays, director | finally started production on the film The Doors, based on the band of the ... |
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| Isaac Newton | ... wever, must be made of the most important of them all: his biography of Sir | . In 1831 he published a short popular account of the philosopher's life i ... |
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| William Feller | ... uld return one day so that he could learn all of the math necessary to read | 's famous two-volume treatise on probability theory, An Introduction to Pr ... |
| Erik Erikson | ... interactive parts of identity formation, which includes religious identity. | compared faith with doubt and found that healthy adults take heed to their ... |
| Ernest Rutherford | Radiometric dating has been carried out since 1905 when it was invented by | as a method by which one might determine the age of the Earth. In the cent ... |
| Arnim Zola | ... es events to his own ends, with the aid of Doctor Faustus, Doctor Doom, and | . His plans involved the reunion of Captain America and his former lover S ... |
| Nathaniel Branden | ... e first read Rand's works in their "formative years." Rand's former protégé | referred to Rand's "especially powerful appeal to the young," while Onkar ... |
| Simplicius's | and | commentary thereon) are essentially equivalent to one another. Aristotle o ... |
| Roy Kerr | In this period more general black hole solutions were found. In 1963, | found the exact solution for a rotating black hole. Two years later, Ezra ... |
| Leonhard Euler | ... academies on the Continent, led by such mathematicians as Daniel Bernoulli, | , Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Pierre-Simon Laplace, and Adrien-Marie Legendre. ... |
| Ewald Hering | ... d in the subject. He had been captivated by Head's accounts of the works of | and had absorbed his views on colour vision and the nature of vital proces ... |
| D.G. Hogarth | ... ing. Emily Torday collected in Central Africa, Aurel Stein in Central Asia, | , Leonard Woolley and T. E. Lawrence excavated at Carchemish. In 1918, bec ... |
| Pierre Gassendi | The friend of Gui Patin, of | and all the liberal thinkers of his time, Naudé was no mere bookworm; his ... |
| Pierre-Simon Laplace | ... mathematicians as Daniel Bernoulli, Leonhard Euler, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, | , and Adrien-Marie Legendre. At the end of the century, the members of the ... |
| Gian-Carlo Rota | ... nce algebras of locally finite posets were treated in a number of papers of | beginning in 1964, and by many later combinatorialists. Rota's 1964 paper ... |
| Karl Popper | ... d and incurable" could ignore the trend towards totalitarianism, said Carr. | , in The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945) and The Poverty of Historicis ... |
| Braj Kachru | | divides the use of English into three concentric circles |
| Richard Hamming | ... (and who subsequently shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956). In 1947, | invented Hamming codes for error detection and correction. For patent reas ... |
| Charles Babbage | ... m regular communication among those in the field of science. In a review of | 's book Decline of Science in England in John Murray's Quarterly Review, h ... |
| Alfred Russel Wallace | ... the Linnean Society (which led Darwin to publish On the Origin of Species) | says of the evolutionary principle |
| Milton Friedman | ... article with the title inspired by a possibly tongue-in-cheek comment from | , a comment later echoed by U.S. President Richard Nixon, that "We are all ... |
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| George FitzGerald | ... iction of what is now known as Cherenkov radiation, and inspired his friend | to suggest what now is known as the Lorentz-Fitzgerald contraction |
| Muhammad Yunus | ... President of the United States, Al Gore, Economist and Nobel Prize winner, | , author and columnist, William Safire, environmental justice advocate Maj ... |
| David Finkelstein | In 1958, | identified the Schwarzschild surface as an event horizon, "a perfect unidi ... |
| Bomhoff | ... he plug" on the VVD-CDA-LPF-cabinet, after infighting between LPF ministers | and Heinsbroek |
| John of London | ... . The mathematicians whom he considered perfect were Peter of Maricourt and | , and two were good: Campanus of Novara and a Master Nicholas. Peter was t ... |
| Aristotle | ... , and metaphysics. It was influenced by ancient Greek philosophers, such as | , Hellenistic thinkers such as Ptolemy, earlier Persian and Muslim scienti ... |
| Benedict Anderson | ... d for certain, and estimates vary from about 10,000 to 50,000. According to | , "7,500 were jailed or deported" and "roughly 20,000 executed." In : "In ... |
| Arthur Laffer's | ... tion model based on the elasticity of tax rates, known as the Laffer curve. | model predicts that excessive tax rates actually reduce potential tax reve ... |
| Indiana Jones | ... ecific version is "nuking the fridge", referring to the scene in the fourth | movie (Kingdom of the Crystal Skull) when Jones hides inside an inexplicab ... |
| Gregory Bateson | The cybernetician and anthropologist | would observe in the 1970s that though seeing it only as an illustration, ... |
| Aristotle's | Some of Zeno's nine surviving paradoxes (preserved in | Physic |
| William Safire | ... re, Economist and Nobel Prize winner, Muhammad Yunus, author and columnist, | , environmental justice advocate Majora Carter, and environmental law atto ... |
| Leonard Susskind | ... reproducing, just as any biological being can die without having offspring. | , who promotes a similar string theory landscape, stated: "I'm not sure wh ... |
| Salimuzzaman Siddiqui | In medicine, | was the first Pakistani scientist to bring the therapeutic constituents of ... |
| Hendrik Lorentz | It is named after the Dutch physicist | . It reflects the surprising fact that observers moving at different veloc ... |
| Leonardo da Vinci | ... ancesca, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Perugino, Michelangelo, Raphael, Botticelli, | , and Titian. The same is true for architecture, as practiced by Brunelles ... |
| Giordano Bruno | ... published Clavis artis Lullianae. He published the Artificium perorandi of | in 1610; and in the same year the Panacea philosophica, an attempt to find ... |
| August Cieszkowski | ... itude to religion that distinguished the left and right from then onwards ( | is a possible exception to this rule). Despite the lack of political freed ... |
| William Murdoch | ... 's monopoly may have prevented other inventors, such as Richard Trevithick, | or Jonathan Hornblower, from introducing improved steam engines, thereby r ... |
| Francis Pryor | ... onze Age archaeological site, was discovered in 1982 when a team led by Dr. | carried out a survey of dykes in the area. Probably religious, it comprise ... |
| Emil Kraepelin | ... imself for his new duties by spending the summer working in Heidelberg with | on measuring the effects of fatigue |
| Brook Taylor | British work, carried on by mathematicians such as | and Colin Maclaurin, fell behind Continental developments as the century p ... |
| Jungian | ... world, may be seen as a Bildungsroman rather than a traditional quest. The | concept of individuation is also reflected through this theme of growing m ... |
| Albert Einstein | ... ce frame, and to understand the symmetries of the laws of electromagnetism. | later re-derived the transformation from his postulates of special relativ ... |
| Colin Maclaurin | British work, carried on by mathematicians such as Brook Taylor and | , fell behind Continental developments as the century progressed. Meanwhil ... |
| Alexander Borodin | ... Knyaz' Igor' ) is an opera in four acts with a prologue. It was composed by | . The composer adapted the libretto from the East Slavic epic The Lay of I ... |
| Ptolemy | ... ancient Greek philosophers, such as Aristotle, Hellenistic thinkers such as | , earlier Persian and Muslim scientists and philosophers such as Al-Kindi ... |
| Charles Wilkes | The United States Exploring Expedition led by Lieutenant | was tasked with a vast survey of the Pacific Ocean starting in 1838. In Se ... |
| Thomas Young | ... tin Fresnel, with whose history, as well as that of Etienne-Louis Malus and | , this part of his life is closely interwoven |
| André Dumont | ... rvatoire du Muséum national de Versailles (Fromageot, 1903). The next year, | the people's representative, became administrator for the department of th ... |
| Wilhelm Wien | ... iside treated this as material mass, capable of producing the same effects. | later verified Heaviside's expression (for low velocities) |
| John Law | ... ing to 1840 in its present form. It was previously owned by Scottish banker | and was the site of several historic balloon ascents |
| Nicolas-François Dupré de Saint-Maur | ... r King Louis XV, under the supervision of two intendants (Governors), first | then the Marquis (Marquess) de Tourny |
| Schommer | ... h thick and flared. Regarding the distribution of star clusters in the LMC, | et al. measured velocities for ~80 clusters and found that the LMC's clust ... |
| Walter Houser Brattain | ... ant invention developed by Bell Laboratories, was invented by John Bardeen, | , and William Bradford Shockley (and who subsequently shared the Nobel Pri ... |
| Freud | ... Neville Symington as possibly "the greatest psychoanalytic thinker...after | " |
| Aristotle | ... e Panacea philosophica, an attempt to find the common ground in the work of | , Raymond Lull, and Petrus Ramus. In 1612 Alsted edited the Explanatio of ... |
| Robert Grosseteste | ... astrology, and the calendar. Bacon often mentioned his debt to the work of | and Adam Marsh, as well as to other lesser figures. He was clearly not an ... |
| Antony Valentini | ... the different parallel universes and "signal nonlocality", as described by | , a scientist at the Perimeter Institute |
| Plato's | ... lar that motion is nothing but an illusion. It is usually assumed, based on | Parmenides 128c-d, that Zeno took on the project of creating these paradox ... |
| Daniel Bernoulli | ... hed at scientific academies on the Continent, led by such mathematicians as | , Leonhard Euler, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Pierre-Simon Laplace, and Adrien- ... |
| Osamu Shimomura | ... state, and construction. Today, Friday Harbor is again busy and prosperous. | harvested jellyfish from the docks of the harbor. Eventually he purified t ... |
| Patrick Cousot | Abstract interpretation was formalized by | and Radhia Cousot |
| Martin Gardner | According to | , at school Diaconis supported himself by playing poker on ships between N ... |
| Carl Jung | ... from which the cosmos in all its manifold forms arises." The psychoanalyst | saw the mandala as "a representation of the unconscious self," and believe ... |
| Edward Teller | ... ico, home of the Manhattan Project that developed the first atomic weapons. | and Ernest O. Lawrence, director of the Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley, ... |
| John Bardeen | ... he most important invention developed by Bell Laboratories, was invented by | , Walter Houser Brattain, and William Bradford Shockley (and who subsequen ... |
| Bernard Lamy | ... had 48 synoptical tables as well as an index. In its time it was praised by | , and criticised for plagiarism for verbatim copying without acknowledgmen ... |
| Max Weber | Some historians such as David Landes and | credit the different belief systems in China and Europe with dictating whe ... |
| Carl Bosch | ... rl Bosch Museum which shows life and work of chemist and Nobel Prize-winner | . Then there is the Documentation and Culture Centre of German Sinti and R ... |
| Lev Landau | ... His arguments were opposed by many of his contemporaries like Eddington and | , who argued that some yet unknown mechanism would stop the collapse. They ... |
| David Dumville | ... ing with his arrival in Britain with his father Cerdic in 495, are correct. | has suggested that his true regnal dates are 554-581 |
| Thomas Edison | ... ylinders, discs, and magnetic tapes. Some of the voices to be found include | , Amelia Earhart, Albert Einstein, and Oscar Wilde. Bird Library is also h ... |
| John R. Dunning | ... in Hall; the members of the team were Herbert L. Anderson, Eugene T. Booth, | , Enrico Fermi, G. Norris Glasoe, and Francis G. Slack. The next day, the ... |
| Joseph Larmor | Many physicists, including Woldemar Voigt, George FitzGerald, | , Hendrik Lorentz had been discussing the physics behind these equations s ... |
| Howard Zinn | Damon narrated the audiobook version of historian | 's A People's History of the United States, published in 2003. Zinn had be ... |
| Vladimir Nabokov | ... whereas the second is a direct transliteration of the actual Russian name. | explains: "In Russian, a surname ending in a consonant acquires a final 'a ... |
| Ptolemy | ... ds and free souls," and Novara believed that his findings would have shaken | 's "unshakable" geocentric system |
| David Landes | Some historians such as | and Max Weber credit the different belief systems in China and Europe with ... |
| James Clerk Maxwell | ... rvomechanism, its analysis in a dynamic system is far from trivial. In 1868 | wrote a famous paper "On governors" that is widely considered a classic in ... |
| Hans Freudenthal | ... se lingua cosmica) is an artificial language first described in 1960 by Dr. | in his book Lincos: Design of a Language for Cosmic Intercourse, Part 1. I ... |
| David Fontana | ... as an aid to meditation and trance induction. According to the psychologist | , its symbolic nature can help one "to access progressively deeper levels ... |
| Hendrik Lorentz | ... any physicists, including Woldemar Voigt, George FitzGerald, Joseph Larmor, | had been discussing the physics behind these equations since 1887 |
| Raja Ramanna | The program became fully mature in 1974, when dr. | reported to Gandhi that India has ability to test the first nuclear weapon ... |
| Christiaan Huygens | ... Accademia del Cimento in Italy; Marin Mersenne and Blaise Pascal in France | ;in the Netherlands; and Robert Hooke and Robert Boyle in England |
| Arnim Zola | The Red Skull would not stay dead for long; Nazi geneticist | , who had obtained DNA samples of Captain America years earlier, arranged ... |
| Victor Horsley | ... es, was further stimulated by work in 1891, when he was chosen to be one of | 's assistants at in the series of investigations which elucidated the exis ... |
| George FitzGerald | Many physicists, including Woldemar Voigt, | , Joseph Larmor, Hendrik Lorentz had been discussing the physics behind th ... |
| James Bradley | ... come an assistant at Lilienthal Observatory near Bremen. There he worked on | 's stellar observations to produce precise positions for some 3,222 stars |
| Alexander du Toit | Earlier theories (e.g. by Alfred Wegener and | ) of continental drift were that continents "plowed" through the sea. The ... |
| Évariste Galois | In abstract algebra, a finite field or Galois field (so named in honor of | ) is a field that contains a finite number of elements. Finite fields are ... |
| Silver Sable | ... sterminded a conflict between the United States and Symkaria, the nation of | He joined the "Acts of Vengeance" conspiracy, but was attacked by the muta ... |
| Nobel | ... safety in scientific experimentation, a compliment that compared Dalén with | himself. Despite his blindness, Dalén controlled AGA until his death in 19 ... |
| Christopher Wren | Ogilby died in London in 1676 and was buried at St. Brides, one of Sir | 's new churches |
| Louis Pasteur | ... n, Victor Hugo and Friedrich Nietzsche, and was a friend to Richard Wagner, | and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, among others |
| Henry Head | ... National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic. It was here that he and | were to meet and form a lasting friendship |
| Karl Popper | ... nce Aronsen, Richard Pipes, Leopold Labedz, Franz Borkenau, Walter Laqueur, | , Eckhard Jesse, Leonard Schapiro, Adam Ulam, Raymond Aron, Claude Lefort, ... |
| Alfred Lee Loomis | ... 30 km). It originally was known as "LRN" for Loomis Radio Navigation, after | , who invented the longer range system and played a crucial role in milita ... |
| Adrien-Marie Legendre | They are named after | . This ordinary differential equation is frequently encountered in physics ... |
| Pierre Schaeffer | ... xus style of Ono as well as the musique concrète works of composers such as | and Pierre Henry |
| Gersonides | ... assical Jewish authorities, such as Abraham ibn Daud, Abraham ibn Ezra, and | |
| W. Edwards Deming | ... e the world and the United States such statisticians as Walter A. Shewhart, | , Harold F. Dodge, George Edwards, Harry Romig, R. L. Jones, Paul Olmstead ... |
| James Watt | ... ke) and governors which control motive power input. He considers devices by | , Professor James Thomson, Fleeming Jenkin, William Thomson, Léon Foucault ... |
| Herbert York | E.O. Lawrence tapped 32-year-old | , a former graduate student of his, to run the Livermore Laboratory. Under ... |
| Sir John Randall | ... ng's College London, whose Biophysics department was under the direction of | . (Randall had turned down Francis Crick from working at King's College.) ... |
| Karl Marx | ... him; influenced by Albert Brisbane he promoted Fourierism. His journal had | (as well as Friedrich Engels) as European correspondent in the early 1850s ... |
| Laplace | ... on of photography, the grant for the publication of the works of Fermat and | , the acquisition of the museum of Cluny, the development of railways and ... |
| Robert Hooke | ... nne and Blaise Pascal in France; Christiaan Huygens in the Netherlands; and | and Robert Boyle in England |
| Alfred Wegener | Earlier theories (e.g. by | and Alexander du Toit) of continental drift were that continents "plowed" ... |
| Woldemar Voigt | Many physicists, including | , George FitzGerald, Joseph Larmor, Hendrik Lorentz had been discussing th ... |
| Luca Pacioli | ... lorence, at the time a major center of Neoplatonism. He studied there under | , a friend of Leonardo da Vinci |
| Walter A. Shewhart | ... rance Department gave the world and the United States such statisticians as | , W. Edwards Deming, Harold F. Dodge, George Edwards, Harry Romig, R. L. J ... |
| Vladimir Nabokov | ... ky declared it to be "flawless as a work of art". His opinion was shared by | , who especially admired "the flawless magic of Tolstoy's style", and by W ... |
| Paul Wellstone | ... he city briefly entered the national news in October 2002 when U.S. Senator | , along with seven others, died in a plane crash, two miles away from the ... |
| Karl Marx | ... kbinder Eugène Varlin, an associate of Michael Bakunin and correspondent of | , and by other radicals) for the creation of a "Committee of Public Safety ... |
| Yusuf al-Mu'taman ibn Hud | ... led of Castilla El Cid with his supporters (Mesnada) offer their service to | . He accepted the command of Taifa of Zaragoza and swore their allegiance ... |
| Robert Jameson | ... wster undertook further editorial work by establishing, in conjunction with | (1774–1854), the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, which took the place of ... |
| Willard Libby | In 1934, | found weak beta activity in pure neodymium, which was attributed to a half ... |
| William Safire | ... -language style and usage guides recommend against its use. Language expert | in his On Language column advocated the use of the word factlet to express ... |
| Leonardo da Vinci | ... or center of Neoplatonism. He studied there under Luca Pacioli, a friend of | |
| Fleeming Jenkin | ... e power input. He considers devices by James Watt, Professor James Thomson, | , William Thomson, Léon Foucault and Carl Wilhelm Siemens (a liquid govern ... |
| Robert FitzRoy | The voyage of the Beagle brought the survey ship HMS Beagle, under captain | , to the Galápagos on 15 September 1835 to survey approaches to harbours. ... |
| Francis G. Slack | ... rson, Eugene T. Booth, John R. Dunning, Enrico Fermi, G. Norris Glasoe, and | . The next day, the Fifth Washington Conference on Theoretical Physics beg ... |
| Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar | In 1931, | calculated, using special relativity, that a non-rotating body of electron ... |
| Carl Zeiss | ... f and Minox, binoculars and telescopes made by the company Hensoldt AG (now | ), part of the Zeiss group (over 2,000 people employed in peak times). Oth ... |
| George Alcock | ... rborough is the birthplace of many notable people, including the astronomer | , one of the most successful visual discoverers of novas and comets; John ... |
| Wade Davis | Cultural anthropologist | points to the dangers of "modernization" (often cited as reason for econom ... |
| Friedrich Engels | ... bert Brisbane he promoted Fourierism. His journal had Karl Marx (as well as | ) as European correspondent in the early 1850s (although most of his views ... |
| Virginia Heinlein | ... nes from this period, she is an intelligent redhead, and clearly modeled on | , even having a version of her name and her childhood nickname, Rikki-Tikk ... |
| Marin Mersenne | ... lista Torricelli and the participants in the Accademia del Cimento in Italy | ;and Blaise Pascal in France; Christiaan Huygens in the Netherlands; and R ... |
| Dave Bayer | ... aconis received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1982, and in 1992 published (with | ) a paper entitled "Trailing the Dovetail Shuffle to Its Lair" (a term coi ... |
| Joseph Campbell | ... Asimov to write the latter as an experiment for the magazine), and again by | , Asimov's usual editor. In 1949, Doubleday editor Walter I. Bradbury acce ... |
| Marilyn Monroe | Factoid was coined by Norman Mailer in his 1973 biography of | . Mailer described a factoid as "facts which have no existence before appe ... |
| Rodney Stark | ... stity more strongly than did orthodox texts. However, at least one scholar, | , claims that it is the same Nag Hammadi library that proves Ireneaus righ ... |
| Theodore Dreiser | ... th noted writers including H. L. Mencken, Ellen Glasgow, Sinclair Lewis and | , correspondence with family, friends, editors and publishers, newspaper c ... |
| Timothy Leary | ... o, originally intended for an unsuccessful Skateboard Movie, which featured | ) |
| Henry Fonda | ... ilm included candid interviews with the likes of John Wayne, James Stewart, | , and was narrated by Orson Welles. Out of circulation for years due to li ... |
| Eric Voegelin | ... attempts to identify Gnostic elements in contemporary American religion, or | 's analysis of totalitarian impulses through the interpretive lens of Gnos ... |
| Victor Goldschmidt | ... name to the whole series. The term "lanthanide" was probably introduced by | in 1925 |
| William A. Niskanen | According to | , one of the architects of Reaganomics, "Reagan delivered on each of his f ... |
| Pythagoras | ... hics used the word "theory" to mean 'passionate sympathetic contemplation'. | changed the word to mean a passionate sympathetic contemplation of mathema ... |
| Georges Lemaître | ... es (see Eddington–Finkelstein coordinates), although it took until 1933 for | to realize that this meant the singularity at the Schwarzschild radius was ... |
| Blaise Pascal | ... the participants in the Accademia del Cimento in Italy; Marin Mersenne and | in France; Christiaan Huygens in the Netherlands; and Robert Hooke and Rob ... |
| Léon Foucault | ... s by James Watt, Professor James Thomson, Fleeming Jenkin, William Thomson, | and Carl Wilhelm Siemens (a liquid governor) |
| Isaac Asimov | ... iterary banqueting club the Trap Door Spiders, which served as the basis of | 's fictional group of mystery solvers the Black Widowers |
| Pliny | ... When Horace criticized Augustus, he used veiled ironic terms. In contrast, | reports that the 6th century BC poet Hipponax wrote satirae that were so c ... |
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| Jean Rouch | ... ed interchangeably, there are important differences between cinéma vérité ( | ) and the North American "Direct Cinema" (or more accurately ""), pioneere ... |
| George Paget Thomson | ... ey. Bell researcher Clinton Davisson shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with | for the discovery of electron diffraction, which helped lay the foundation ... |
| Oliver Stone | He followed this with (1991), the | -directed JFK (1991), The Bodyguard (1992), and Clint Eastwood's A Perfect ... |
| Blaise Pascal | ... were laid in the 17th century with the development of probability theory by | and Pierre de Fermat. Probability theory arose from the study of games of ... |
| Aristotle | ... hemy (although he was critic of alchemy) with the mineralogical theories of | and Theophrastus. He created a synthesis of ideas concerning the nature of ... |
| Carl Jung | ... tury thinkers who heavily studied and were influenced by Gnosticism include | (who supported Gnosticism), Eric Voegelin (who opposed it), Jorge Luis Bor ... |
| Charles Darwin | ... captain and others on board, including his companion, the young naturalist | , made observations on the geology and biology on Chatham, Charles, Albema ... |
| Jābir ibn Hayyān | Ibn Sina's theory on the formation of metals combined | 's sulfur-mercury theory from Islamic alchemy (although he was critic of a ... |
| Robert Grosseteste | ... ecently discovered Greco-Muslim astronomy and on the calendaric writings of | , Bacon criticized the Julian calendar, describing it as intolerable, horr ... |
| Hyman Minsky | ... thematical models in his General Theory. For commentators such as economist | , Keynes's limited use of mathematics was partly the result of his sceptic ... |
| Charles Darwin | ... ure and the sciences. He won the respect and admiration of scholars such as | , Victor Hugo and Friedrich Nietzsche, and was a friend to Richard Wagner, ... |
| Adrien-Marie Legendre | The Legendre polynomials were first introduced in 1782 by | as the coefficients in the expansion of the Newtonian potentia |
| Harry Nyquist | During the late 1920s, | and Ralph Hartley developed a handful of fundamental ideas related to the ... |
| Plato | ... n of the arts. It is thus a dialogue within a dialogue, after the manner of | , but the conversation extends to enormous length. The topics for discussi ... |
| Regiomontanus | ... er. Novara in turn declared that his teacher had been the famous astronomer | , who was once a pupil of Georg Purbach. Novara was initially educate |
| Terrence Kaufman | ... contact-induced language change, American linguists Sarah Grey Thomason and | state that in situations of cultural pressure (where populations must spea ... |
| Gottfried Leibniz | ... rect physical action, a position held by Huygens and the German philosopher | , who, while following in the Cartesian tradition, developed his own philo ... |
| Jacques Lacan | Bion has been twinned with | as "inspired bizarre analysts...who demand not that their patients get bet ... |
| Arnim Zola | ... s as an agent of the Third Reich. Skull narrowly escaped and was rescued by | , and was forced to fake his death and go into hiding in a Rocky Mountain ... |
| Juan Ignacio Molina | According to | , the Dutch captain Joris van Spilbergen observed the use of chiliquenes ( ... |
| Henry Moseley | ... ermediate properties between them. This prediction was supported in 1914 by | who, having discovered that atomic number was an experimentally measurable ... |
| Ibn Sahl | ... acy of Islamic opticians, mainly Alhazen, who was in his turn influenced by | 's 10th century legacy in dioptrics |
| Popper falsifiable | Smolin has noted that the string theory landscape is not | if other universes are not observable. This is the subject of the Smolin-S ... |
| Alex Rich | ... Diego, California; guest speakers included James D. Watson, Sydney Brenner, | , the late Seymour Benzer, Aaron Klug, Christof Koch, Pat Churchland, Vila ... |
| Mr. Freeze | ... characters such as Mister Atom, King Kull, Beautia Sivana, Joker, Penguin, | , and Catwoman. Early conceptual art drawn by Alex Toth would also include ... |
| Nicholas Rush | ... Empire. O'Neill reappears as a lieutenant general in Stargate Universe with | , where he is recruiting Eli Wallace into the Icarus Project. After the at ... |
| James Watt | | designed his first governor in 1788 following a suggestion from his busine ... |
| Heinrich Schliemann | ... nt – a channel of water that separates Asia Minor and Europe. In the 1870s, | set out to find it. Following Homer's description, he started to dig at Hi ... |
| Plato | ... in detail. More isolated references occur, however, in sources ranging from | to Virgil |
| Clinton Davisson | ... synthesizer was invented and demonstrated by Homer Dudley. Bell researcher | shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with George Paget Thomson for the discov ... |
| Ptolemy | ... ccultation of Aldebaran. Copernicus later used this observation to disprove | 's model of lunar distance |
| Sir James Hall | ... took a boat trip from Dunglass Burn east along the coast with the geologist | of Dunglass. They found the sequence in the cliff below St. Helens, then j ... |
| John Graunt | ... cation of Natural and Political Observations upon the Bills of Mortality by | . Early applications of statistical thinking revolved around the needs of ... |
| Samuel Johnson | ... her, John Calvin, Voltaire, Sir Isaac Newton, Descartes, Sir Francis Bacon, | , Thomas Hobbes, Goethe, and others. In addition, the collection includes ... |
| Eric Voegelin | ... were influenced by Gnosticism include Carl Jung (who supported Gnosticism), | (who opposed it), Jorge Luis Borges (who included it in many of his short ... |
| Ralph Hartley | During the late 1920s, Harry Nyquist and | developed a handful of fundamental ideas related to the transmission of in ... |
| Bohuslav Brauner | In 1902, | found out that the difference between neodymium and samarium is the larges ... |
| Theophrastus | ... he was critic of alchemy) with the mineralogical theories of Aristotle and | . He created a synthesis of ideas concerning the nature of the mineral and ... |
| William Bright | ... ls a landslide that occurred on the ridge south of White Swan. According to | , the name "Toppenish" comes from the Sahaptin word /txápniš/, referring t ... |
| Aristotle | ... leontology with his explanation of how the stoniness of fossils was caused. | previously explained it in terms of vaporous exhalations, which Ibn Sina m ... |
| René Descartes | The French philosopher | was well-connected to, and influential within, the experimental philosophy ... |
| Karl Otfried Müller | His brothers were | (1797-1840), an archeologist and philologist, and Eduard Müller (1804-1875 ... |
| E. H. Moore | ... a on F sends a to b. The second proof is actually the one which was used in | 's 1903 paper which (for the first time) classified all finite fields |
| Homer Dudley | ... r, the first electronic speech synthesizer was invented and demonstrated by | . Bell researcher Clinton Davisson shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with ... |
| Isaac Newton | ... llection also includes works by Galileo, Luther, John Calvin, Voltaire, Sir | , Descartes, Sir Francis Bacon, Samuel Johnson, Thomas Hobbes, Goethe, and ... |
| Ralph Hartley | ... power or power spectral density. The law is named after Claude Shannon and | |
| Bertrand Russell | ... aynard Keynes, Walter Lamb (brother of painter Henry Lamb), George Mallory, | , and G. E. Moore. Moore's philosophy, with its assumption that the summum ... |
| Robert Boyle | ... scal in France; Christiaan Huygens in the Netherlands; and Robert Hooke and | in England |
| George Bernard Shaw | ... , particularly when he had the honour of spending a month in the company of | ; he later described how he spent "many hours every day talking – the grea ... |
| Paul Langevin | ... r's (1897) and Lorentz's (1899, 1904), but with a different interpretation. | (1911) said of the transformation |
| Emanuel Swedenborg | According to the doctrine of The New Church, as explained by | , there is no such thing as substitutionary atonement. Swedenborg's accoun ... |
| A.H. Layard | ... orld. In the 1840s and 1850s the Museum supported excavations in Assyria by | and others at sites such as Nimrud and Nineveh. Of particular interest to ... |
| Christian Gmelin | ... recious color. Processes were devised by Jean Baptiste Guimet (1826) and by | (1828), then professor of chemistry in Tübingen; but while Guimet kept his ... |
| Henri Poincaré | In 1905, | was the first to recognize that the transformation has the properties of a ... |
| Samuel Johnson | ... cation within Britain. Largely, modern British spelling was standardised in | 's A Dictionary of the English Language (1755), although previous writers ... |
| Werner Meyer-Eppler | ... 1954 to 1956, he studied phonetics, acoustics, and information theory with | at the University of Bonn (Kurtz 1992, 68–72). Together with Eimert, Stock ... |
| William Whiston | ... reports that the pillar of stone remained in the land of Siriad in his day. | , a 17/18th century translator of the Antiquities, stated in a footnote th ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | Aulë is a fictional character from | 's legendarium, who is primarily discussed in The Silmarillion, but appear ... |
| Aristotle | ... itings of 1260–1280 Bacon cited Secretum secretorum, which he attributed to | , far more than his contemporaries did. Often used as an argument for the ... |
| Hendrik Lorentz | ... rical mass. A few months after Schwarzschild, Johannes Droste, a student of | , independently gave the same solution for the point mass and wrote more e ... |
| Carl Friedrich Gauss | ... tudy of games of chance. The method of least squares was first described by | around 1794. The use of modern computers has expedited large-scale statist ... |
| John Russell Bartlett | ... e. Maj. Jefferson Van Horne was sent out in 1849 to establish Marcy's goal. | , was commissioned in 1850 to carry out the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. B ... |
| Mikhail Lomonosov | ... rnment while shortening their terms of service to the state. She encouraged | 's establishment of the University of Moscow and Ivan Shuvalov foundation ... |
| Oliver Heaviside | ... invariant when transformed from the ether to a moving frame. Early in 1889, | had shown from Maxwell's equations that the electric field surrounding a s ... |
| Pierre de Fermat | ... 7th century with the development of probability theory by Blaise Pascal and | . Probability theory arose from the study of games of chance. The method o ... |
| Jean-Pierre Adam | ... ting was required to move the stones the 800 meters to the temple. In 1977, | made a brief study suggesting the large blocks could have been moved on ro ... |
| Lodovico Ferrari | ... h allows the quartic polynomial to be solved by radicals, as established by | |
| Guido van Rossum | ... tors of Python, became part of the company in the year 2000. Python founder | left Zope Corp in 2003 |
| Howard Hawks | ... and Sergeant York. Huston writes that Sergeant York, which was directed by | , has "gone down as one of Howard's best pictures, and Gary Cooper had a t ... |
| Charles Wheatstone | ... his name, was not as has often been asserted the invention of Brewster. Sir | discovered its principle and applied it as early as 1838 to the constructi ... |
| Max Perutz’s | ... right place, in the right frame of mind, at the right time (1949), to join | project at Cambridge University, and he began to work on the X-ray crystal ... |
| Lenin | The Russian armies were separated, defeated and pushed back, which forced | and the Soviet leadership to abandon for the time being their strategic ob ... |
| Thomas John I'Anson Bromwich | ... ace transform, also known as the "Bromwich integral"). The UK mathematician | later devised a rigorous mathematical justification for Heaviside's operat ... |
| Nikola Tesla | Both | and Hidetsugu Yagi attempted to devise systems for large scale wireless po ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... ch of the Ohio. In his Notes on the State of Virginia published in 1781–82, | stated: "The Ohio is the most beautiful river on earth. Its current gentle ... |
| Bunsen | ... imparts an intense yellow color to flames. As early as 1860, Kirchhoff and | noted the high sensitivity of a sodium flame test, and stated in Annalen d ... |
| James A. Anderson | A project at Brown University started by Jeff Stibel, | , Steve Reiss and others called Applied Cognition Lab created a disambigua ... |
| James K. Galbraith | ... he dream of global free-market capitalism. In the same month macroeconomist | used the 25th Annual Milton Friedman Distinguished Lecture to launch a swe ... |
| Julia Kristeva | ... ubversive exercise. The work of the feminist psychoanalyst and philosopher, | , has influenced feminist theory in general and feminist literary criticis ... |
| Copernicus | ... ble advance in scientific knowledge: the scientific revolution. The work of | , Kepler, and Galileo set aside the old notion that the earth was the cent ... |
| Hidetsugu Yagi | Both Nikola Tesla and | attempted to devise systems for large scale wireless power transmission, w ... |
| Chris Shays | ... epublicans including former Governor John G. Rowland and former Congressman | , however they have favored Democrats in recent US presidential election y ... |
| Donald Lynden-Bell | Olin Eggen, | , and Allan Sandage in 1962, proposed a theory that disk galaxies form thr ... |
| Jeff Corwin | ... compliant live-action programming, including new series by wildlife experts | and Jack Hanna |
| Robert Shiller | Economist | had begun advocating robust government intervention to tackle the financia ... |
| Harvey Fletcher | ... ed to do fusion research, receiving an honorary degree from the university. | , also an alumnus of BYU, inventor of stereophonic sound, went on to carry ... |
| Johann Joachim Winckelmann | ... he borrowed this nom de plume from the German city of Stendal in homage to | |
| Kepler | ... in scientific knowledge: the scientific revolution. The work of Copernicus, | , and Galileo set aside the old notion that the earth was the center of th ... |
| Tivadar Puskás | A Hungarian engineer, | , quickly invented the telephone switchboard in 1876, which allowed for th ... |
| Archimedes | ... ept of torque, also called moment or couple, originated with the studies of | on levers. The rotational analogues of force, mass, and acceleration are t ... |
| Thomas Plante | ... other groups and denominations. A Perspective on Clergy Sexual Abuse by Dr. | of Stanford University and Santa Clara University states that "approximate ... |
| Marx | The thinking of | and Freud provided a point of departure for questioning the notion of a un ... |
| Allan Sandage | Olin Eggen, Donald Lynden-Bell, and | in 1962, proposed a theory that disk galaxies form through a monolithic co ... |
| Paul Krugman | Economist | argues the economic expansion during the Reagan administration was primari ... |
| Vladimir Lenin | ... gle, he confirmed his membership of the Italian Communist Party. On reading | 's State and Revolution, he plunged into post-war political life, associat ... |
| Hillard Bell Huntington | ... conditions, an alkali metal. In 1935 however, physicists Eugene Wigner and | predicted that under an immense pressure of around ( or ), hydrogen atoms ... |
| Édouard Balladur | ... th the regions was a matter to be dealt with soon. This was soon refuted by | and Gérard Longuet, members of the Committee for the reform of local autho ... |
| George Reisman | ... in The Capitalist Manifesto (2005). Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics by | (1996) attempts to integrate Objectivist methodology and insights with bot ... |
| Freud | The thinking of Marx and | provided a point of departure for questioning the notion of a unitary, aut ... |
| Leonard Searle | ... i.e. smaller objects merging to form larger ones). It was first proposed by | and Robert Zinn that galaxies form by the coalescence of smaller progenito ... |
| Doris Day | ... ave Megadeth the distinction of being the only metal band to ever win the " | Music Award", presented to the band by the Humane Society of the United St ... |
| Thomas Edison | ... ntonio Meucci, Johann Philipp Reis, Elisha Gray, Alexander Graham Bell, and | , among others, have all been credited with pioneering work on the telepho ... |
| Robert Burnham, Jr. | ... ry for the study of the growth and evolution of the stars," as described by | Surveys of the galaxy have found roughly 60 globular clusters, 400 planeta ... |
| Jean-Luc Picard | ... ter in the series. Her character often vexed the captain of the Enterprise, | , who spurned her amorous advances. Barrett later appeared as Ambassador T ... |
| Raghuram Rajan | ... w much deregulation took place during the Reagan administration. Economists | and Luigi Zingales point out that many of the major deregulation efforts h ... |
| Joseph Stiglitz | and | |
| Alexander Graham Bell | ... deas. Innocenzo Manzetti, Antonio Meucci, Johann Philipp Reis, Elisha Gray, | , and Thomas Edison, among others, have all been credited with pioneering ... |
| Hyman Minsky | Newspapers and other media have also cited work relating to Keynes by | , Robert Skidelsky, Donald Markwel |
| Thomas Edison | ... l Society of America in 1949, the second person to receive this honor after | . He was president of the American Society for Hard of Hearing, an honorar ... |
| Samuel Huntington | ===Other views===Sociologists Peter Berger and | suggest that Opus Dei is involved in "a deliberate attempt to construct an ... |
| Donald Markwell | ... have also cited work relating to Keynes by Hyman Minsky, Robert Skidelsky, | and Axel Leijonhufvud. A series of major bail-outs were pursued during the ... |
| Stephen Hawking | ... dern physics", the "father of science", and "the Father of Modern Science". | says, "Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible ... |
| John Polkinghorne | ... ch it has created the physical world. However many modern scholars (such as | ) hold that it is part of a deity's nature to be consistent and that it wo ... |
| Oliver Stone | ... known for his role as Bruce Wayne/Batman in Batman Forever, Jim Morrison in | 's The Doors, he became popular in the mid-1980s after a string of appeara ... |
| Bruce Bastian | | , a Brigham Young University (BYU) graduate student, and BYU computer scie ... |
| H. R. Haldeman | # | (R) Chief of Staff for Nixon, convicted of perjur |
| Chris Shays | ... controlled all five federal congressional seats. The remaining Republican, | , lost his seat to Democrat Jim Himes in the Congressional Election in 200 ... |
| James Sowerby | | , a naturalist, acquired it and gave fragments to interested people. Sower ... |
| Abdus Salam | ... eraction, the theory of which was developed around 1968 by Sheldon Glashow, | and Steven Weinberg. They were awarded the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics for ... |
| Peter Berger | ===Other views===Sociologists | and Samuel Huntington suggest that Opus Dei is involved in "a deliberate a ... |
| Franz Mesmer | ... f similar hypnotic cures effected by the Marquis de Puységur, a follower of | , and was keen to explore the limits of the healing knowledge of the tranc ... |
| Jeff Stibel | A project at Brown University started by | , James A. Anderson, Steve Reiss and others called Applied Cognition Lab c ... |
| Paul Krugman | Nobel laureate | also actively argued the case for vigorous Keynesian intervention in the e ... |
| John Ehrlichman | # | (R) Counsel to Nixon, convicted of perjury |
| Scarecrow | ... ut to be incorrect. Timm had also said he wanted to include The Riddler and | as villains in the group as a nod to the original Legion, but was prevente ... |
| Howard Hawks | ... n the notes he had produced for the MoMA retrospective of the director, and | . Bogdanovich also brought attention to such forgotten pioneers of America ... |
| Milton Friedman | ... th well several known participants including J.M. Keynes, Ragnar Frisch and | . The debate is sometime referred to as the Tinbergen debate |
| George Akerlof | ... Keynesian government intervention to mitigate the financial crisis include | , Brad Delong |
| Michel Foucault | ... rong existentialist themes. Ideas from such thinkers as Fyodor Dostoyevsky, | , Franz Kafka, Friedrich Nietzsche, Herbert Marcuse, Gilles Deleuze, and E ... |
| Paul Joskow | ... ader [Reagan] who is seen as one of their saviors." Furthermore, economists | and Roger Noll argue that the changes in economic regulation did not refle ... |
| Steven Weinberg | ... eory of which was developed around 1968 by Sheldon Glashow, Abdus Salam and | . They were awarded the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work. The Hi ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | In the works of | , the Vanyar are the fairest and most noble of the High Elves. They are th ... |
| Shadowcat | ... o includes such notable heroes as Wolverine, Storm, Colossus, Nightcrawler, | , Rogue, Psylocke, Dazzler, Gambit and Emma Frost. Besides the Brotherhood ... |
| Robert Reich | ... ntion to mitigate the financial crisis include George Akerlof, Brad Delong, | |
| Edgar F. Codd | ... propagated through the rest of the database via the defined relationships. | , the inventor of the relational model, introduced the concept of normaliz ... |
| Marilyn Monroe | He then co-starred in John Huston's The Misfits (1961), which was both | 's and Clark Gable's last film. Monroe, who was also having emotional prob ... |
| Benjamin Franklin | ... s the Pony Express. Up until this time only the faces of George Washington, | , Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson were found on the face of US Postage ... |
| Aristotle | ... ustus Eberhard, from whom he acquired a love of the philosophy of Plato and | . At the same time he studied the writings of Immanuel Kant and Friedrich ... |
| James Watson | ... aving been offered (and having refused) the Mastership of Gonville & Caius. | claimed at a Cambridge conference marking the 50th anniversary of the disc ... |
| Bertrand Russell | ... ve-minute hypothesis is a skeptical hypothesis put forth by the philosopher | that proposes that the universe sprang into existence five minutes ago fro ... |
| Chomsky | Herman and | (1988) proposed a propaganda model hypothesizing systematic biases of U.S. ... |
| Charles Hard Townes | ... the laser was first described, in a technical paper by Arthur Schawlow and | |
| Wolverine | ... duced in issue #4). The X-Men universe also includes such notable heroes as | , Storm, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Shadowcat, Rogue, Psylocke, Dazzler, Gamb ... |
| Foucault | Thinkers such as Althusser, | or Bourdieu theorize the subject as a social construction. According to Al ... |
| Ragnar Frisch | ... a lively debate with well several known participants including J.M. Keynes, | and Milton Friedman. The debate is sometime referred to as the Tinbergen d ... |
| Howard Zimmerman | ... (Book 1) and Christopher Schenck (Books 2–3). The miniseries were edited by | and Ken Grobe |
| William Dever | ... ild. Other archaeologists in Israel, including Amnon Ben-Tor, Amihai Mazar, | and Lawrence Stager, reject this theory, claiming that it is contradicted ... |
| Gerardus Mercator | The Galápagos Islands first appeared on the maps, of | and Abraham Ortelius, in about 1570. The islands were named "Insulae de lo ... |
| Pythagoras | ... adigm of a spherical Earth was developed in Greek astronomy, beginning with | (6th century BC), although most Pre-Socratics retained the flat Earth mode ... |
| Friedrich Engels | | co-developed with Karl Marx a materialist analysis of history, since known ... |
| Aristotle | ... pt marked a significant departure from the concept of mimesis formulated by | in the 4th century BC, which was only concerned with "imitation of nature" ... |
| Friedrich Engels | ... from which all the prayers of their priest will not avail to redeem them.". | echoed this idea, later maintaining that the absence of a standing army, t ... |
| Chris Date | ... uent years, the most recent being the Sixth Normal Form (6NF) introduced by | , Hugh Darwen, and Nikos Lorentzos in 2002 |
| Robert Kuttner | ... d even continued to be called "Keynesian". Writing in The American Prospect | argued it was not so much excessive Keynesian activism that caused the eco ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... Up until this time only the faces of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, | and Andrew Jackson were found on the face of US Postage. Sometimes mistake ... |
| Henry DeWolf Smyth | ... iked among people of all strata, from other Nobel Laureates to technicians. | , who was Chairman of the Princeton Physics department, had once invited F ... |
| Antonio Meucci | ... mission over a wire and improved on each other's ideas. Innocenzo Manzetti, | , Johann Philipp Reis, Elisha Gray, Alexander Graham Bell, and Thomas Edis ... |
| Aristotle | The philosopher | points out the ways in which tragedy differs from epic poetry |
| Edmund Oscar von Lippmann | ... to the sixteenth centuries". M. M. Pattison Muir had a similar opinion, and | considered this text a pseudepigraph |
| Erik Christopher Zeeman | In a 1964 paper, | showed that the causality preserving property, a condition that is weaker ... |
| Norberto Bobbio | ... his stint put him in regular contact with Cesare Pavese, Natalia Ginzburg, | , and many other left-wing intellectuals and writers. He then left Einaudi ... |
| Harvey J. Alter | In the mid-1970s, | , Chief of the Infectious Disease Section in the Department of Transfusion ... |
| J. R. Partington | ... passages from Bacon's Opus Maius and Opus Tertium, extensively analyzed by | , several scholars cited by Joseph Needham concluded that Bacon had most l ... |
| Thor Heyerdahl | ... is party reached the islands on 10 March 1535. According to a 1952 study by | and Arne Skjølsvold, remains of potsherds and other artifacts from several ... |
| Lawrence Klein | Tinbergen's work on macroeconomic models was later continued by | , contributing to another Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. For h ... |
| Evangelista Torricelli | ... llowing in the years leading up to and following Galileo’s death, including | and the participants in the Accademia del Cimento in Italy; Marin Mersenne ... |
| Bourdieu | Thinkers such as Althusser, Foucault or | theorize the subject as a social construction. According to Althusser, the ... |
| Alan Blinder | ... e resulting body of work largely composing New Keynesian economics. In 1992 | was writing about a "Keynesian Restoration" as work based on Keynes's idea ... |
| Sir Humphry Davy | The metal itself was first produced by | in England in 1808 using electrolysis of a mixture of magnesia and mercuri ... |
| Thomas Dick | ... s the priority must be assigned to others. A lesser-known classmate of his, | , also went on to become a popular astronomical writer |
| Joseph Needham | ... ertium, extensively analyzed by J. R. Partington, several scholars cited by | concluded that Bacon had most likely witnessed at least one demonstration ... |
| Goodfield | ... s; formation of minerals; and the diversity of earth’s terrain. Toulmin and | (1965), commented on Avicenna's contribution: "Around A.D. 1000, Avicenna ... |
| Tim Berners-Lee | ... blem of distributed authoring on the World Wide Web with interested people. | 's original vision of the Web was that of a medium for both reading and wr ... |
| Eugene Wigner | ... ot, under ordinary conditions, an alkali metal. In 1935 however, physicists | and Hillard Bell Huntington predicted that under an immense pressure of ar ... |
| Aristotle | ... 6th century BC), although most Pre-Socratics retained the flat Earth model. | accepted the spherical shape of the Earth on empirical grounds around 330 ... |
| Sir Humphry Davy | ... en recognised in compounds, the metal itself was not isolated until 1807 by | through the electrolysis of sodium hydroxide |
| Herbert Marcuse | ... s as Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Michel Foucault, Franz Kafka, Friedrich Nietzsche, | , Gilles Deleuze, and Eduard von Hartmann permeate the works of artists su ... |
| Plato | ... Johann Augustus Eberhard, from whom he acquired a love of the philosophy of | and Aristotle. At the same time he studied the writings of Immanuel Kant a ... |
| Toshihide Maskawa | ... winning them the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics. In 1973, Makoto Kobayashi and | showed that CP violation in the weak interaction required more than two ge ... |
| Lord Adrian | ... ch consensus, prompting the intervention of then University Vice-Chancellor | . Lord Adrian first offered the professorship to a compromise candidate, , ... |
| Michael I. Pupin | ... one of its own scientists, George A. Campbell, and an external investigator | to determine whether Heaviside's work was incomplete or incorrect. Campbel ... |
| Sigmund Freud | ... ominent writer in the 1920s and 1930s, and befriended Arthur Schnitzler and | . He was extremely popular in the USA, South America and Europe, and remai ... |
| Samuel Johnson | ... really start smuggling (cf. Adam Smith's approval of smuggling); and the " | Dining Experience" turns out to be a flop because Doctor Johnson is regula ... |
| Karl Marx | Another Young Hegelian, | , was at first sympathetic with this strategy of attacking Christianity to ... |
| Magneto | The first issue also introduced the team's archenemy, | , who would continue to battle the X-Men for decades throughout the comic' ... |
| Thomas Edison | Cayce's clients included a number of famous people such as Woodrow Wilson, | , Irving Berlin, and George Gershwin |
| Adam Smith | ... parks and old-English farmyards; the smugglers really start smuggling (cf. | 's approval of smuggling); and the "Samuel Johnson Dining Experience" turn ... |
| Andrei Sakharov | ... n the amount of matter and antimatter in the universe; it thus forms one of | 's three conditions for baryogenesis |
| Grove Karl Gilbert | A Gilbert delta (named after | ) is a specific type of delta that is formed by coarse sediments, as oppos ... |
| Joseph Kruskal | ... eated by Max Mathews. New greedy algorithms developed by Robert C. Prim and | , revolutionized computer network design. In 1958, the laser was first des ... |
| John Perkins | ... said to be involved, as described in Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by | |
| Stanislaw Ulam | ... ary work on the hydrogen bomb at Los Alamos as a consultant, and along with | , calculated that the amount of tritium needed for Edward Teller's model o ... |
| Pliny the Elder | ... r along the River Hermus, where a town called Maeonia existed, according to | (Natural History book v:30) and Hierocles |
| Alexander von Humboldt | The city is named for German naturalist | |
| Carol Channing | Martin appeared in the play Legends with | in a one-year US national tour, opening in Dallas on January 9, 1986 |
| Raymond F. Boyce | ... Second Normal Form (2NF) and Third Normal Form (3NF) in 1971, and Codd and | defined the Boyce-Codd Normal Form (BCNF) in 1974. Higher normal forms wer ... |
| Saussure | Jacques Lacan, inspired by Heidegger and | , built on Freud's psychoanalytic model of the subject, in which the "spli ... |
| Stephen Harper's | ... (34% against 31%). Duceppe announced the Bloc would support Prime Minister | budget that same day. By October polls showed that the Bloc was up to mid ... |
| Kirchhoff | Sodium imparts an intense yellow color to flames. As early as 1860, | and Bunsen noted the high sensitivity of a sodium flame test, and stated i ... |
| Franz Joseph Gall | ... om an intellectual attack and the ensuing challenges thereafter. Initially, | (1758–1828) claimed his very popular theory of Phrenology and localization ... |
| Richard Stallman | ... etween the 16th to 18 November 2005, founder of the free software movement, | , protested the use of RFID security cards by covering his card with alumi ... |
| Hugh Miller | ... he rock was first recognised as an igneous intrusion by James Hutton, while | visited in 1847 and wrote about the Rock's geology in his book Edinburgh a ... |
| Jansky | ... or whatever reason, there seem to have been no attempts for 30 years, until | 's development of radio astronomy in 1932 |
| Charles Darwin | ... the older English names, principally because those were the names used when | visited |
| Marilyn Monroe | ... Davis, Jr., Joey Bishop, Peter Lawford, and for a brief stint, Norman Fell. | , Angie Dickinson, Juliet Prowse, and Shirley MacLaine were often referred ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... ign 1969–1997. The IRA also attempted to assassinate British Prime Minister | by bombing the Conservative Party Conference in a Brighton hotel. Loyalist ... |
| James Hutton | ... s (Dinantian) age. The rock was first recognised as an igneous intrusion by | , while Hugh Miller visited in 1847 and wrote about the Rock's geology in ... |
| Karl Weierstrass | ... tz, Joseph Schumpeter, Konrad Adenauer, Max Ernst, Constantin Carathéodory, | , Karl Barth and Samson Raphael Hirsch |
| Martin Gardner | ... raneous newspaper articles, affidavits, anecdotes, testimonials, and books. | for example wrote that the trances of Cayce did happen, but the informatio ... |
| Stephen Harper | ... ugh Parliament in July 2005 without holding a plebiscite. In December 2006, | 's government introduced a motion to re-open the marriage debate, which lo ... |
| Milton Friedman | ... rade barriers than any administration since Hoover." By contrast, economist | has pointed to the number of pages added to the Federal Register each year ... |
| Giovanni Amelino-Camelia | In the context of quantum gravity, | (2000) introduced what now is called doubly special relativity, by proposi ... |
| Max Mathews | ... one of the first computer programs to play electronic music, was created by | . New greedy algorithms developed by Robert C. Prim and Joseph Kruskal, re ... |
| Jacques Lacan | ... ng-there" displaces traditional notions of the personal subject altogether. | , inspired by Heidegger and Saussure, built on Freud's psychoanalytic mode ... |
| Jack Dunitz | Sydney Brenner, | , Dorothy Hodgkin, Leslie Orgel, and Beryl M. Oughton, were some of the fi ... |
| Planck | ... nosphere was confirmed in 1923. The predictions by Heaviside, combined with | 's radiation theory, probably discouraged further attempts to detect radio ... |
| Thomas Nagel | ... ue being the mind-body problem). In the essay What is it like to be a bat?, | famously argued that explaining subjective experience—the "what it is like ... |
| Robert C. Prim | ... ronic music, was created by Max Mathews. New greedy algorithms developed by | and Joseph Kruskal, revolutionized computer network design. In 1958, the l ... |
| Zhou Xiaochuan | In a March 2009 speech entitled Reform the International Monetary System, | , the governor of the People's Bank of China came out in favour of Keynes' ... |
| Stephen Nachmanovitch | ... ng artists and scholars worldwide, including Pauline Oliveros, Oliver Lake, | , Thomas Buckner, Robert Dick, India Cooke, Jane Ira Bloom, Karlton Hester ... |
| Lee Smolin | ... pired by that of Amelino-Camelia, was proposed in 2001 by João Magueijo and | , who also focused on the invariance of Planck energy |
| Albert Einstein | ... han Huizinga, and Pisacane, and works by Max Planck, Werner Heisenberg, and | on physics. Disdainful of Turin students, Calvino saw himself as enclosed ... |
| Young | ... lopædia Britannica: "His scientific glory is different in kind from that of | and Fresnel; but the discoverer of the law of polarization of biaxial crys ... |
| Caspar Bauhin | The Bauhins, in particular | (1560–1624), took some important steps towards the binomial system, by pru ... |
| João Magueijo | ... fferent model, inspired by that of Amelino-Camelia, was proposed in 2001 by | and Lee Smolin, who also focused on the invariance of Planck energy |
| John C. Frémont | ... his explorations in the west was published by Washington Irving in 1838.). | of the U.S. Army's Corps of Topographical Engineers and his guide Kit Cars ... |
| René Descartes | ... een subject and object corresponds to the distinction, in the philosophy of | , between thought and extension. Descartes believed that thought (subjecti ... |
| Aristotle | ... affiliated with the American Philosophical Association's Eastern Division. | scholar and Objectivist Allan Gotthelf, chairman of the Society, and his c ... |
| Copernicus | ... hey simply make a conjecture based solely on reasoning". It is notable that | , writing only twenty years after Columbus in 1514, dismisses the idea of ... |
| William F. Albright | ... period of rivalry with Tibni is from the 27th year of Asa to the 31st year. | has dated his reign to 876 – 869 BC, while E. R. Thiele offers the dates o ... |
| Henri Theil | ... e Econometric Institute at the Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam together with | , who also was his successor in Rotterdam. The Tinbergen Institute was nam ... |
| C. D. Howe | ... t. Laurent was criticized for a lack of restraint exercised on his minister | , who was widely perceived as extremely arrogant. Western Canadians felt p ... |
| Gersonides | ... assidut). A few affirm self-limited omniscience (the theology elucidated by | in "The Wars of the Lord". |
| Werner Heisenberg | ... tale, Cesare Pavese, Johan Huizinga, and Pisacane, and works by Max Planck, | , and Albert Einstein on physics. Disdainful of Turin students, Calvino sa ... |
| Charcot | ... died medicine in Uppsala, Montpellier, and Paris (where he was a student of | ), graduating M.D. in 1880 at the age of 23. Though his thesis was on the ... |
| Stephen Harper | ... orm in his plan for the next Parliament. So far Conservative Prime Minister | has not made any moves towards reform of the electoral system |
| Constantin Carathéodory | ... ugust Kekulé von Stradonitz, Joseph Schumpeter, Konrad Adenauer, Max Ernst, | , Karl Weierstrass, Karl Barth and Samson Raphael Hirsch |
| Nilakantha Somayaji | ... nomy, Aryabhata's Aryabhatiya (499 CE) proposed the Earth's rotation, while | (1444–1544) of the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics proposed a s ... |
| Howard T. Odum | To honor Bertalanffy, ecological systems engineer and scientist | named the storage symbol of his General Systems Language as the Bertalanff ... |
| Pliny the Elder | ... Pausanias argues for the Lykaian competition’s priority to the Panathenaia. | , an imperial Roman polymath, states that the games at Lykaion were the fi ... |
| George Bernard Shaw | ... prominent literary figures, including Nobel laureates William Butler Yeats, | and Samuel Beckett. Other influential writers and playwrights include Osca ... |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | ... a tiny town it was regarded as one of its capitals. In the summer of 1772, | was at the Reichskammergericht as a trainee. His novel The Sorrows of Youn ... |
| David Hume | ... an consciousness began its career with the German Idealists, in response to | 's radical skepticism. The idealists' starting point was Hume's conclusion ... |
| Alfred North Whitehead | ... daism). The need for a modified view of omnipotence was also articulated by | in the early 20th century and expanded upon by the aforementioned philosop ... |
| Magneto | Early X-Men issues introduced the team's archenemy | and his Brotherhood of Evil Mutants featuring Mastermind, Quicksilver, Sca ... |
| Archimedes | ... e siege of Syracuse from 214 BC onwards. During this siege the ingenuity of | ' machines defeated all Roman attacks |
| Arthur Compton | ... eaction was achieved, a coded phone call was made by one of the physicists, | , to James Conant, chairman of the National Defense Research Committee. Th ... |
| Max Planck | ... Eugenio Montale, Cesare Pavese, Johan Huizinga, and Pisacane, and works by | , Werner Heisenberg, and Albert Einstein on physics. Disdainful of Turin s ... |
| Maxwell's | ... de did much to develop and advocate vector methods and the vector calculus. | formulation of electromagnetism consisted of 20 equations in 20 variables. ... |
| Angela Merkel | ... debate over how to fund the spending. Some leaders and institutions such as | and the European Central Ban |
| Prince Charles | ... celebrated the tenth anniversary of its magazine supplement at the pyramid. | of Britain surveyed the new site with curiosity, and declared it "marvelou ... |
| Stuart A. Wright | ... as follows and distinguished it from the defector and whistleblower roles. | , an American sociologist and author, asserts that apostasy is a unique ph ... |
| Nicolás Cabrera | ... e Complutense, was instituted under the leadership of the famous physicist, | . The Autonoma is widely recognised for its research strengths in theoreti ... |
| Diomedes Grammaticus | ... dissect the hexameters of Virgil and earlier poets. A treatise on poetry by | is a good example, as this work (among other things) categorizes dactylic ... |
| Nicolaus Copernicus | ... stronomical observations—notably the radical analysis offered by astronomer | concerning the relative motions of the sun, earth, moon, and planets—indic ... |
| Anthonie Cornelis Oudemans | Differences in the paintings have lead authors such as | and Masauji Hachisuka to make claims about sexual dimorphism, ontogenic tr ... |
| Ion Mihai Pacepa | ... racted AIDS as a result of homosexual affairs with his bodyguards, based on | 's book Red Horizons in which Pacepa reported that he had a conversation w ... |
| Pythagoras | ... assertions of results. Likewise there is contrast between the practices of | and Euclid. While Euclid was the originator of what we now understand as t ... |
| Gustaf Nordenskiöld | ... anch lines in Utah to reach lucrative coal fields. It was the railway which | employed to haul boxcars of relics from the Mesa Verde, Colorado, cliff dw ... |
| Axel Leijonhufvud | and | |
| Pierre Schaeffer | In December 1952, he composed a Konkrete Etüde, realized in | 's Paris musique concrète studio. In March 1953, he moved to the NWDR stud ... |
| Pope Sylvester II | ... Pomerania) to help convert the local population into Christianity. In 1003 | appointed Bruno, at the age of 33, to head a mission amongst the pagan peo ... |
| Pierre de Fermat | ... to modern mathematics did not follow even the practice of their time, e.g. | who was infamous for withholding his proofs, but nonetheless had a vast re ... |
| William A. Niskanen | Economist | , a member of Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers and later chairman of ... |
| Ptolemy | During the Roman period, the geographer | noted that Sardinia was inhabited by the following peoples, from north to ... |
| Friedrich Hirzebruch | ... e alumni and faculty are Pope Benedict XVI, Heinrich Heine, Heinrich Hertz, | , Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, Joseph Schu ... |
| David G. Bromley | The American sociologist | defined the apostate role as follows and distinguished it from the defecto ... |
| Jacob Bekenstein | Work by James Bardeen, | , Carter, and Hawking in the early 1970s led to the formulation of black h ... |
| Israel Finkelstein | Some authors, especially | , maintain that the Book of Kings minimized Omri's accomplishments. They a ... |
| Zora Neale Hurston | ... g the first blacks in the U. S. Signal Corps. Among its faculty members was | ; a historic marker is placed at the house where she lived while teaching ... |
| Francesco Maurolico | ... himself immortal remembrance". The Renaissance historian and mathematician | , who came from Messina, identified the remains of a temple of Orion near ... |
| The Prince of Wales | ... do on the city's southwestern end that hold annual polo and special events. | and Sarah, Duchess of York were seen in the polo clubs |
| Sidney Pestka | ... did not occur until 1978. A series of publications from the laboratories of | and Alan Waldman between 1978 and 1981, describe the purification of the t ... |
| Philipp Melanchthon | Luther, along with his colleague | , emphasized this point in his plea for the Reformation at the Reichstag i ... |
| Dale Kinkade | Linguist | , a specialist in the Native American languages of the Pacific Northwest, ... |
| Friedrich Engels | ... l system based on participatory democracy from the grass roots up. Marx and | , Mikhail Bakunin, and later Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky and Mao Zedong t ... |
| Galileo Galilei | ... eld universally valid characterizations of motion. The Tuscan mathematician | was the central figure in the shift to this perspective. As a mathematicia ... |
| Marshall Nirenberg | ... h were performed by Crick. The details of the code came mostly from work by | and others who synthesized synthetic RNA molecules and used them as templa ... |
| Joseph Schumpeter | ... ch Hirzebruch, Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, | , Konrad Adenauer, Max Ernst, Constantin Carathéodory, Karl Weierstrass, K ... |
| Molefi Kete Asante | In 2002, scholar | listed King on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans |
| Sheldon Lee Glashow | ... rame effects. Examples are the effective field theory of Sidney Coleman and | , and especially the Standard-Model Extension which provides a general fra ... |
| Béla Bartók | ... Sony and Deutsche Grammophon. A recording of the Concerto for Orchestra by | released by Deutsche Grammophon in 2007 was the first recording by Gustavo ... |
| Mathurin Jacques Brisson | ... hooded, but combined it with the genus name Struthio, that of the ostrich. | erected the new genus name Raphus, referring to bustards, resulting in the ... |
| Johann Michael Vansleb | ... ech Thévenot (Relations de divers voyages curieux, 1670s–1696 editions) and | (The Present State of Egypt, 1678) |
| Watson | ... ts quickly turned to the biological implications of the structure. In 1953, | and Crick published another article in Nature which stated: "it therefore ... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | ... his characters, for example the song "Namarie" in The Lord of the Rings by | , which Tolkien attributes to the character Galadriel |
| Lewis A. Coser | The American sociologist | (following the German philosopher and sociologist Max Scheler) defines an ... |
| Charles Darwin | In 1848, Broca founded a society of free-thinkers, sympathetic to | 's theories. Broca was rather inspired with the whole idea of evolution. H ... |
| Karl Marx | | found it aggravating that the Communards "lost precious moments" organisin ... |
| Gerardus Mercator | ... tion with Ringmann, did not include it; however, usage was established when | applied the name to the entire New World in his 1538 world map. Acceptance ... |
| Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz | ... Heinrich Heine, Heinrich Hertz, Friedrich Hirzebruch, Friedrich Nietzsche, | , Joseph Schumpeter, Konrad Adenauer, Max Ernst, Constantin Carathéodory, ... |
| Melchisédech Thévenot | ... elled though the area. Protais' writing about their travel was published by | (Relations de divers voyages curieux, 1670s–1696 editions) and Johann Mich ... |
| Pierre Teilhard de Chardin | ... have been strongly influenced by the Jesuit paleontologist and philosopher | |
| Kofi Annan | ... States Secretary of State Colin Powell and United Nations Secretary-General | as top world leaders |
| Benjamin Franklin | Contrary to popular legend, there is no evidence that | ever supported the Wild Turkey, rather than the Bald Eagle, as a symbol of ... |
| Roger Penrose | ... no singularities appear in generic solutions. However, in the late sixties | and Stephen Hawking used global techniques to prove that singularities are ... |
| Joseph Caldwell | ... the grass of McCorkle Place out of respect for the unknown resting place of | , the university's first president |
| Shen Kuo | ... zi (c. 470–390 BCE) proposed a concept similar to inertia, while in optics, | (1031–1095 CE) independently developed a camera obscura. The study of magn ... |
| J. L. Lagrange | ... for examination at Toulouse, he astounded his examiner by his knowledge of | |
| Elaine Showalter | In the field of literary criticism, | describes the development of feminist theory as having three phases. The f ... |
| George Ritzer | ... renewable, and predictable. (Cf. "postmodernism" and also U.S. sociologist | 's "McDonaldization" thesis of the 1990s, in particular his discussion of ... |
| Watson | An enduring controversy has been generated by | and Crick's use of DNA X-ray diffraction data collected by Rosalind Frankl ... |
| Leonard Woolley's | ... additions were the 2600 BC Mesopotamian treasure from Ur, discovered during | 1922–34 excavations. Gold, silver and garnet grave goods from the Anglo-Sa ... |
| Michael Shermer | ... t for various forms of alternative medicine, which they regard as quackery. | writes in , "Uneducated beyond the ninth grade, Cayce acquired his broad k ... |
| Kathy Reichs | ... e of Québec. Brennan has made at least one other reference to the real-life | most notably by stating in the series pilot that the closest other forensi ... |
| Vladimir Lenin | ... m the grass roots up. Marx and Friedrich Engels, Mikhail Bakunin, and later | , Leon Trotsky and Mao Zedong tried to draw major theoretical lessons (in ... |
| Noam Chomsky | ... twentieth century scholars and philosophers, including Jean-Paul Sartre and | |
| Heinrich Hertz | Among its notable alumni and faculty are Pope Benedict XVI, Heinrich Heine, | , Friedrich Hirzebruch, Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich August Kekulé von S ... |
| Walter Bagehot | ... role has been recognised since the 19th century; the constitutional writer | identified the monarchy in 1867 as the "dignified part" rather than the "e ... |
| Sidney Coleman | ... oducing preferred frame effects. Examples are the effective field theory of | and Sheldon Lee Glashow, and especially the Standard-Model Extension which ... |
| Paul Ehrenfest | ... Tinbergen studied mathematics and physics at the University of Leiden under | . During 1929 he earned his PhD degree at this university with his thesis ... |
| Arnim Zola | ... ore escaping shoots Lukin to death. This is not the end of Red Skull, since | had seconds earlier transferred his mind to one of his spare robotic bodie ... |
| Stephen Hawking | ... appear in generic solutions. However, in the late sixties Roger Penrose and | used global techniques to prove that singularities are generic |
| Albert Einstein | ... add increased dimensionality, such as intentionality (used for x), people ( | ) and colloquial terminology more relevant to Internet search (i.e., blogg ... |
| Graziella Magherini | The condition was diagnosed and named in 1979 by Italian psychiatrist Dr. | , who had noticed similar psychosomatic conditions (racing heart beat, nau ... |
| Bertrand Russell | ... had a solid empirical basis for our modern concepts of atoms and molecules. | states that they just hit on a lucky hypothesis, only recently confirmed b ... |
| Carl Jung | ... es occurred because Cayce had been reading other books from authors such as | , Ouspensky and Blavatsky. Gardner's hypothesis was that the trance readin ... |
| Ernst Curtius | ... lers and scholars began to systematically tour Sparta and the Peloponnnese. | , Charles Beulé, and Guillaume Blouet published scholarly studies of the a ... |
| Humphry Davy | ... , but instead must be prepared from its compounds; it was first isolated by | in 1807 by the electrolysis of sodium hydroxide. Sodium is the sixth most ... |
| J. B. J. Delambre | ... ste Biot, to complete the meridian arc measurements which had been begun by | , and interrupted since the death of P. F. A. Méchain in 1804). Arago and ... |
| Luce Irigaray | ... at writing and philosophy are and along with other French feminists such as | emphasize "writing from the body" as a subversive exercise. The work of th ... |
| Alick Isaacs | Meanwhile, the British virologist | and the Swiss researcher Jean Lindenmann, at the National Institute for Me ... |
| James Freed | ... Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City, although his associate | served as lead designer. Hoping to create a vibrant community institution ... |
| Aristotle | From | Constitution of the Athenians |