Braudel's work came to define a " second " era of Annales historiography and was very influential throughout the 1960s and 1970s, especially for his work on the Mediterranean region in the era of Philip II of Spain.

André Weil (; 6 May 1906 – 6 August 1998 ) was an influential French mathematician of the 20th century, renowned for the breadth and quality of his research output, its influence on future work, and the elegance of his exposition.

His work on sheaf theory hardly appears in his published papers, but correspondence with Henri Cartan in the late 1940s, and reprinted in his collected papers, proved most influential.

It is, however, in algebraic geometry and related fields where Grothendieck did his most important and influential work.

From about 1955 he started to work on sheaf theory and homological algebra, producing the influential " Tôhoku paper " ( Sur quelques points d ' algèbre homologique, published in 1957 ) where he introduced Abelian categories and applied their theory to show that sheaf cohomology can be defined as certain derived functors in this context.

His numerous disciples — some of whom were very influential and who, for the most part, were also disciples of Samuel — amplified and, in their capacity as instructors and by their discussions, continued the work of Rav.

It sets out Nimzowitsch's most important ideas, while his second most influential work, Chess Praxis, elaborates upon these ideas, adds a few new ones, and has immense value as a stimulating collection of Nimzowitsch's own games accompanied by his idiosyncratic, hyperbolic commentary which is often as entertaining as instructive.

Professional scholars were impressed by his work and in 1930 he received a grant to study the Nahuatl language in Mexico ; on his return home he presented several influential papers on the language at linguistic conferences.

By contrast, in mainstream Analytical philosophy the topic is more confined to abstract investigation, in the work of such influential theorists as W. V. O. Quine, to name one of many.

Heidegger coined the term " dasein " for this property of being in his influential work Being and Time (" this entity which each of us is himself … we shall denote by the term ' dasein.

In about 723, Bede wrote a longer work on the same subject, On the Reckoning of Time, which was influential throughout the Middle Ages.

It has been described as the single most important and influential work in the West on Medieval and early Renaissance Christianity, and is also the last great Western work that can be called Classical.

In various revised editions ( 12 in all, through 1872 ), Principles of Geology was the most influential geological work in the middle of the 19th century, and did much to put geology on a modern footing.

In his influential work The Myth of the Birth of the Hero, Otto Rank argued that the births of many mythical heroes follow a common pattern.

Will Wright wrote that Alexander's work was influential in the origin of The Sims computer game, and in his later game Spore.

In the field of developmental psychology, the work of Erica Burman has been influential.

Published in two volumes a decade apart, in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon.

The committee presiding over Britain's prestigious Turner Prize in 2004, for example, called it " the most influential work of modern art.

This approach has been successful and influential in relation with Hilbert's work in algebra and functional analysis, but has failed to engage in the same way with his interests in physics and logic.

The work De nuptiis Mercurii et Philologiae (" About the wedding of Mercury and Philologia ") written by Martianus Capella ( 4th-5th century ) was very influential on the successive medieval encyclopedias.

Thompson's most influential work was and remains The Making of the English Working Class, published in 1963 while he was working at the University of Leeds.

In 1954 the work of Kenneth Clark and his wife on the effects of segregation on black and white children was influential in the Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education.

Even in the absence of any work in astronomy, Bessel's role in developing the functions which now bear his name would have, by itself, placed him among the most significant and influential mathematicians of the 19th century.

It was an idea for free trade across political boundaries like that advocated by Adam Smith in his influential 1776 Wealth of Nations.

Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations has been an extremely influential book for this school of thought.

For this purpose, permanent headquarters were set up in Washington and contacts were established with the several branches of government, the United Nations, professional and private organizations, and influential persons.

Within what is now the Commonwealth of Nations, the Petition was also heavily influential ; through the various statutes which enforced Imperial law, it remains in force in both New Zealand and Australia, as well as the United Kingdom itself.

* Raúl Prebisch, founding Secretary General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and influential dependency theorist

Having made influential friends across the world during her time leading the Swedish Social Democratic Youth League, Lindh ardently supported international cooperation, both through the United Nations and in the European Union.

From 1980 until 1992, Reich taught at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where he wrote a series of influential books and articles, including The Next American Frontier and The Work of Nations.

Lakhdar Brahimi was also chair of the Panel on United Nations Peace Operations, which produced the influential Brahimi Report.

After Johns spoke on South Africa at the United Nations in New York City on November 27, 1990, during which he criticized the world body openly for continuing economic sanctions in ways that he said were hurting South Africa's black majority under the auspices of helping them, William F. Buckley, Jr. wrote in his December 27, 1990 Universal Press Syndicate column that Johns ' appearance at the U. N. was influential and " did not meet with critical reception because Johns has for many years been a voluble critic of apartheid, so that it was not thought necessary to pass much time on the disavowalist rituals.

As the United Nations, with support from the Clinton administration, began repatriating Thailand-based Hmong veterans from Vietnam's " Secret War " to Laos, Johns was one of several influential opponents of the policy, labeling the repatriation a " betrayal.

he is a member of the Council of the United Nations University and sits in the board of directors of the Cervantes Institute and El Universal, an influential newspaper in Mexico City.

The Human Development Index, which was found by United Nations has become one of the most influential and widely used indices to measure human development across countries.

He was a Vice President of the League of Nations Society from 1916, and in 1917 wrote influential articles in the Daily News.

Rand became the central and most influential swing vote on UNSCOP in favor of the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine and the eventual creation of the State of Israel.

His ideas were influential in the establishment of the Bank's International Development Association, the United Nations Development Programme and the World Food Programme.

Another fact that contributed to a resurgence of anti-Japanese sentiment in 2005 was Japan ’ s bid for permanent membership to the United Nations most influential organ, the United Nations Security Council.

The Act was influential outside the United Kingdom, and was studied in both the United States and the Commonwealth of Nations.

In 1776, he published The botanical arrangement of all the vegetables naturally growing in Great Britain, an early and influential British Flora.

In his influential 1776 pamphlet Common Sense, Thomas Paine echoed this notion, arguing that the American Revolution provided an opportunity to create a new, better society:

In the Système social ( 1773 ), the Politique naturelle ( 1773 – 1774 ) and the Morale universelle ( 1776 ) he attempts to describe a system of morality in place of the Christian one he had so fiercely attacked, but these later writings were not as popular or influential as his earlier work.

The late 18th century and the early 19th century was perhaps the most radical period in British art, producing William Blake ( 1757 – 1827 ), John Constable ( 1776 – 1837 ) and William Turner ( 1775 – 1851 ), three of the most influential British artists, each of whom have dedicated spaces allocated for their work at the Tate Britain.

His tract, Common Sense, published in 1776, was arguably the most famous and influential argument for the Revolution.

Leading figures in the colony such as former royal governors Stephen Hopkins and Samuel Ward as well as John Brown, Nicholas Brown, William Ellery, the Reverend James Manning, and the Reverend Ezra Stiles who had played an influential role in founding Brown University in Providence in 1764 as a sanctuary for religious and intellectual freedom were involved only twelve years later in the 1776 launch of the American Revolutionary War which delivered American independence from the British Empire.

Born into an influential family, Allen initially favored the colonial cause in the American Revolution, and represented Pennsylvania in the Second Continental Congress in 1775 and 1776.

Pymble is named after Robert Pymble ( 1776 – 1861 ), an influential early settler whose 1823 land grant comprised some 600 acres, around half the land of the region.

* Wood, Gordon S. The Creation of the American Republic 1776 – 1787 ( 1969 ), one of the most influential studies

* December 17 – Amalia von Helvig, German and Swedish artist, writer, translator, and influential intellectual ( b. 1776 )