The discoveries were falsely attributed to Sir John Herschel, perhaps the best-known astronomer of his time.

Among his best-known discoveries are the Cramér – Rao bound and the Rao – Blackwell theorem both related to the quality of estimators.

He mainly wrote romances, of which Sybil and Vivian Grey are perhaps the best-known today.

Among his best-known films are Cleopatra ; Samson and Delilah ; The Greatest Show on Earth, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture ; and The Ten Commandments, which was his last and most successful film.

* Many safety clutches are not friction clutches, but belong to the interference clutch family, of which the dog clutch ( see below ) is the best-known.

Three of the best-known figures in the sport are George Sappenfield, who privately called the game " Basket Frisbee ", " Steady Ed " Headrick who introduced the first formal disc golf target with chains and a basket, and Dave Dunipace who invented the modern golf disc.

Perhaps the best-known type of planetary engineering is terraforming, by which a planet's surface conditions are altered to be more like those of Earth.

The varying corpus denoted Aesopica or Aesop's Fables includes most of the best-known western fables, which are attributed to the legendary Aesop, supposed to have been a slave in ancient Greece around 550 BCE.

The best-known FFT algorithms depend upon the factorization of N, but there are FFTs with O ( N log N ) complexity for all N, even for prime N. Many FFT algorithms only depend on the fact that is an th primitive root of unity, and thus can be applied to analogous transforms over any finite field, such as number-theoretic transforms.

The best-known exact solutions, and also those most interesting from a physics point of view, are the Schwarzschild solution, the Reissner – Nordström solution and the Kerr metric, each corresponding to a certain type of black hole in an otherwise empty universe, and the Friedmann – Lemaître – Robertson – Walker and de Sitter universes, each describing an expanding cosmos.

Riesling and Silvaner are among the best-known varieties of white wine, while Spätburgunder and Dornfelder are important German red wines.

In the best-known version of this illusion, two circles of identical size are placed near to each other and one is surrounded by large circles while the other is surrounded by small circles ; the first central circle then appears smaller than the second central circle.

The best-known baryons are the proton and the neutron.

Like many other colors ( orange, rose, and violet are the best-known ), indigo gets its name from an object in the natural world — the plant named indigo once used for dyeing cloth ( see also Indigo dye ).

The two best-known are those of " Jadwiga's cross " and " Jadwiga's foot.

The two best-known examples are The Way of Torah: An Introduction to Judaism ( Belmont 2003 ); and Judaism: An Introduction ( London and New York 2002 ; translated into Portuguese and Japanese ).

To date, the best-known examples of an anarchist communist society ( i. e., established around the ideas as they exist today and achieving worldwide attention and knowledge in the historical canon ), are the anarchist territories during the Spanish Revolution and the Free Territory during the Russian Revolution.

The best-known precious metals are gold and silver.

* Enemy characters and items based on mandrakes are found in a number of video games ; the best-known example is the Pokemon Oddish.

The best-known types of reefs are tropical coral reefs which exist in most tropical waters ; however, reefs can also exist in cold water.

Most mood stabilizers are anticonvulsants, with the important exception of lithium, which is the oldest and best-known mood-stabilizing drug.

However, some species exhibit sex-role reversed behavior in which it is males that are most selective in mate choice ; the best-known examples of this pattern occur in some fishes of the family Syngnathidae, though likely examples have also been found in amphibian and bird species.

Nacreous pearls, the best-known and most commercially-significant pearls, are primarily produced by two groups of molluscan bivalves or clams.

Among the best-known applications of entanglement are superdense coding and quantum teleportation.

Following his commercial breakthrough with Alien ( 1979 ), his best-known works are sci-fi classic Blade Runner ( 1982 ), Thelma & Louise ( 1991 ), best picture Oscar-winner Gladiator ( 2000 ), Black Hawk Down ( 2001 ), Matchstick Men ( 2003 ), Kingdom of Heaven ( 2005 ), American Gangster ( 2007 ), Robin Hood ( 2010 ), and Prometheus ( 2012 ).

In biochemistry, Michaelis – Menten kinetics is one of the simplest and best-known models of enzyme kinetics.

* Edward Gelsthorpe, ( 1923 – 2009 ), marketing executive called " Cranapple Ed " for his best-known product launch.

Her best-known relative was her cousin Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, who married the Duke of York ( later King George VI ) in 1923, became Queen when his brother, King Edward VIII, abdicated in 1936, and who spent much of the twentieth century known as the Queen Mother.

* Edward Gelsthorpe, ( 1923 – 2009 ), marketing executive known as " Cranapple Ed " for his best-known product launch

In 1923, Phillips purchased Pierre-Auguste Renoir's impressionist painting, Luncheon of the Boating Party ( 1880 – 81 ), the museum ’ s best-known work.

Elwyn Jones ( 19 December 1923 – 19 May 1982 ) was a British television writer and producer, whose best-known work was perhaps the co-creation of the famous police drama series Z-Cars for BBC Television in 1962.

His best-known essay Reflections on the Seventh Art was published in 1923 after a number of earlier drafts, all published in Italy or France.

Grinnell ’ s best-known works are on the Cheyenne, including The Fighting Cheyennes ( 1915 ), and a two-volume work, The Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Lifeways ( 1923 ).

Featley had on 17 October 1643 held fierce argument in Southwark with William Kiffin and three other baptists, the substance of which he embodied in his best-known work entitled The Dippers Dipt Denne, hurt by the tone of Featley's diatribe, offered to dispute the ten arguments with him face to face ; and then drew up his Antichrist Unmasked, which appeared by 1 April 1645, when Featley was already a dying man ; another reply by Samuel Richardson, entitled Some brief Considerations, followed soon afterwards.

The series, adapting several of the best-known Poirot and Marple stories, ran from 4 July 2004 through 15 May 2005, and has since been shown in repeated reruns on NHK and other networks in Japan.

The prehistory of arithmetic is limited to a small number of artifacts which may indicate conception of addition and subtraction, the best-known being the Ishango bone from central Africa, dating from somewhere between 20, 000 and 18, 000 BC although its interpretation is disputed.

The Bronx has also become home to a peculiar poetic tribute, in the form of the Heinrich Heine Memorial, better known as the Lorelei Fountain from one of Heine's best-known works ( 1838 ).

The dumpster diving term originates from the best-known manufacturer of commercial trash bins, Dempster, who use the trade name " Dumpster " for their bins, and the fanciful image of someone leaping head first into a dumpster as if it were a swimming pool.

Elizabeth Gracen's best-known acting role has been as the character of the Immortal Amanda in the series Highlander: The Series, and its spin-off from that character, Highlander: The Raven.

During the 1970s and early 1980s, this show was probably the best-known showcase for popular country music on commercial television, aside from other half-hour performer-hosted syndicated shows ( most notably The Porter Wagoner Show, which is perhaps the only other weekly country music show of this era to approach Hee Haws longevity.

The best-known is Tom Stoppard's 1966 play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead which retells many of the events of the story from the point of view of the characters Rosencrantz and Guildenstern as well as giving them a backstory of their own.

The PLO's " vicious terrorist attacks in Israel " dating from this period were countered by Israeli bombing raids in southern Lebanon, where " 150 or more towns and villages ... have been repeatedly savaged by the Israeli armed forces since 1968 ," of which the village of Khiyam is probably the best-known example.

Logo's best-known feature is the turtle, which is an on-screen cursor ( derived originally from a robot of the same name ), which can be given movement and drawing instructions, and is used to programmatically produce line graphics.

Moldova's best-known product comes from its extensive and well-developed vineyards concentrated in the central and southern regions.

The best-known instance is the parabolic reflector, which is a mirror or similar reflective device that concentrates light or other forms of electromagnetic radiation to a common focal point, or conversely, collimates light from a point source at the focus into a parallel beam.

He was able to achieve particularly high notes, called altissimo, becoming one of the best-known players from the West Coast's " cool school of jazz ".

He had used topical materials throughout his series, but in 1959, his Starship Troopers was considered by the Scribner's editorial staff to be too controversial for their prestige line, and they rejected it ; Heinlein found another publisher, feeling himself released from the constraints of writing novels for children, and he began to write " my own stuff, my own way ", and he wrote a series of challenging books that redrew the boundaries of science fiction, including his best-known work, Stranger in a Strange Land ( 1961 ), and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress ( 1966 ).

The lead track, " Tom Sawyer ", is probably the band's best-known song with " Limelight " also receiving satisfactory responses from listeners and radio stations.

His best-known works include the March from The Love for Three Oranges, the suite Lieutenant Kijé, the ballet Romeo and Juliet – from which " Dance of the Knights " is taken – and Peter and the Wolf.

The best-known example of this perspective was the concept of Sozialbrache ( social-fallow ), i. e. the abandoning of tillage as an indicator for occupational shifts away from agriculture.

Taiwan's best-known snacks are present in the night markets, where street vendors sell a variety of different foods, from finger foods, drinks, sweets, to sit-down dishes.

His best-known works include The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems ( 1858 ), The Earthly Paradise ( 1868 – 1870 ), A Dream of John Ball ( 1888 ), the utopian News from Nowhere ( 1890 ), and the fantasy romance The Well at the World's End ( 1896 ).

His best-known works are the operas L ' elisir d ' amore ( 1832 ), Lucia di Lammermoor ( 1835 ), and Don Pasquale ( 1843 ), all in Italian, and the French operas La favorite and La fille du régiment ( both from 1840 ).

Perhaps the best-known tune he ever wrote is Nel cor più non mi sento from La Molinara, immortalized when Beethoven composed variations based on it.