The Black Sea deluge theory ( published in 1997 by William Ryan and Walter Pitman from Columbia University ) contends that the Bosphorus was formed about 5600 BC when the rising waters of the Mediterranean / Sea of Marmara breached through to the Black Sea, which at the time ( according to the theory ) was a low-lying body of fresh water.

In the early 1900s, after the rediscovery of Mendel's work, the gaps in understanding between genetics and evolutionary Darwinism led to vigorous debate among biometricians, such as Walter Weldon and Karl Pearson, and Mendelians, such as Charles Davenport, William Bateson and Wilhelm Johannsen.

In Scotland the only one which has survived the convulsions of the 16th century is Aberdeen Breviary, a Scottish form of the Sarum Office ( the Sarum Rite was much favoured in Scotland as a kind of protest against the jurisdiction claimed by the diocese of York ), revised by William Elphinstone ( bishop 1483 – 1514 ), and printed at Edinburgh by Walter Chapman and Andrew Myllar in 1509 – 1510.

Band structure calculations was first used in 1930 to predict the properties of new materials, and in 1947 John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley developed the first semiconductor-based transistor, heralding a revolution in electronics.

Also, Ditka, Dick Butkus, Walter Payton, Jim McMahon, William " Refrigerator " Perry and Brian Urlacher are among Bears figures known for their appearances in TV commercials.

* 1947 – William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.

Several editors-in-chief of the Britannica are likely to have read their editions completely, such as William Smellie ( 1st edition ), William Robertson Smith ( 9th edition ), and Walter Yust ( 14th edition ).

Among his predecessors as editors-in-chief were Hugh Chisholm ( 1902 – 1924 ), James Louis Garvin ( 1926 – 1932 ), Franklin Henry Hooper ( 1932 – 1938 ), Walter Yust ( 1938 – 1960 ), Harry Ashmore ( 1960 – 1963 ), Warren E. Preece ( 1964 – 1968, 1969 – 1975 ), Sir William Haley ( 1968 – 1969 ), Philip W. Goetz ( 1979 – 1991 ), and Robert McHenry ( 1992 – 1997 ).

The invention of the transistor in 1947 by William B. Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain opened the door for more compact devices and led to the development of the integrated circuit in 1958 by Jack Kilby and independently in 1959 by Robert Noyce.

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution was appealing to some economists, sociologists and political scientists ( most notably Walter Bagehot and William Graham Sumner ) who adapted and rationalized the invisible hand by incorporating the popular idea of the survival of the fittest.

In this 1926 photo, William P. McCracken, assistant secretary of commerce for civil aviation, is shown with Secretary Hoover ( center ) and assistant secretary of commerce Walter Drake.

According to English philologist Walter William Skeat ( 1835-1912 ), the origin is to be found in the name for a cask or liquid measure appearing in various forms in several Teutonic languages, in Dutch oxhooft ( modern okshoofd ), Danish oxehoved, Old Swedish oxhufvod, etc.

In addition to Sir Walter Scott's The Monastery, a hand-fast marriage is mentioned in William Shakespeare's Cymbeline ( act I, scene vi ).

" Dickson-Wright further cites etymologist Walter William Skeat as further suggestion of possible Scandinavian origins: Skeat claimed that the hag – element of the word is derived from the Old Norse haggw or the Old Icelandic hoggva ( höggva in modern Icelandic ), meaning ' to hew ' or strike with a sharp weapon, relating to the chopped-up contents of the dish.

In 1956, John Bardeen shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with William Shockley of Semiconductor Laboratory of Beckman Instruments and Walter Brattain of Bell Telephone Laboratories " for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect ".

The English philologist and ethnographer Walter William Skeat derives the word from the Old English kippian, to spawn.

The stars were Julie Harris, Walter Matthau and William Shatner.

* Pevsner, Nikolaus, Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius ( New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-300-10571-1 ).

More distant relatives included William Liath de Burgh, Tiobóid mac Walter Ciotach Bourke, and Charles Bourke.

She also read the plays of William Shakespeare, and novels by Charles Dickens and Sir Walter Scott.

File: Bardeen. jpg | John Bardeen ( 1908 – 1991 ): awarded Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor and again in 1972 with Leon Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for a fundamental theory of conventional superconductivity known as the BCS theory.

On 1 February 2009, the FARC-EP proceeded with the release of the four security force members, Juan Fernando Galicio Uribe, José Walter Lozano Guarnizo, Alexis Torres Zapata and William Giovanni Domínguez Castro.

These include the philosophers Albert Schweitzer, Owen Barfield and Richard Tarnas ; the writers Saul Bellow, Michael Ende, Selma Lagerlöf, Andrej Belyj, David Spangler, and William Irwin Thompson ; the artists Josef Beuys, Wassily Kandinsky, and Murray Griffin ; actor and acting teacher Michael Chekhov ; cinema director Andrei Tarkovsky ; and conductor Bruno Walter.

Walter M. Fleming, M. D., and William J. Florence took the idea seriously enough to act upon it.

2010 ), ISBN 978-1-4165-9062-0, a true account of art historian-turned-Army sleuth Walter Horn's WWII investigation of Nazi plunder and Germanic mysticism.

Berkeley, Kirkpatrick delivered a lecture on Dr. Walter Horn's activities with the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives division of the U. S. Army during World War II.

* The Bruno Walter Papers in the Music Division of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

* The Walter Cronkite Papers, the University of Texas at Austin

* Brian Hanley, "' The Greatest Victorian ' in the New Century: The Enduring Relevance of Walter Bagehot's Commentary on Literature, Scholarship, and Public Life ", Papers on Language and Literature, ( Spring 2004 )

Walter P. Reuther: Selected Papers ( 1961 )

A Finding Aid to the Walter Pach Papers, 1883 – 1980, in the Archives of American Art.

The Walter Pach Papers Online, Smithsonian Archives of American Art.

* Finding Aid for the John Dwyer Papers, Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University.

* Walter E. Edge Papers at the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University

* Walter Gormly Papers at Iowa State University

Walter P. Reuther: Selected Papers ( 1961 )

While Compaq shareholders unanimously approved the deal, there was a public proxy battle within HP as the deal was strongly opposed by numerous large HP shareholders, including the sons of the company founders, Walter Hewlett and David W. Packard, as well as the California Public Employees ’ Retirement System ( Calpers ) and the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan.

It has many important buildings, foremost among them the Center Building, designed according to the principles of the Kirkbride Plan by Thomas U. Walter ( 1804 – 1887 ), who is better known as the primary architect of the expansion of the U. S. Capitol that was begun in 1851.

Philanthropist Lewis Miller, Walter Blythe, and architect Jacob Snyder designed the widely used Akron Plan, debuting it on Akron's First Methodist Episcopal Church in 1872.

** Walter Duranty of The New York Times for his series of dispatches on Russia specifically the working out of the Five Year Plan.

These hills provide a scenic backdrop and natural setting for Canberra's urban areas, as originally set out in the Walter Burley Griffin Plan.

Walter Horn and Ernest Born in 1979 published a 3-volume The Plan of St. Gall ( Berkeley, Calif., University of California Press ), which is widely considered to be the definitive work in English.