The term " Altaic ", as the name for a language family, was introduced in 1844 by Matthias Castrén, a pioneering Finnish philologist who made major contributions to the study of the Uralic languages.

In parallel to this overall development, the pioneering work of D ' Arcy Thompson in On Growth and Form also helped to add quantitative discipline to biological study.

In 1961 the Canadian philosopher and scholar Marshall McLuhan entitled his pioneering study in the fields of print culture, cultural studies, and media ecology, The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man.

Fascist propaganda of this sort, Adorno wrote, " simply takes people for what they are: genuine children of today ’ s standardized mass culture who have been robbed to a great extent of their autonomy and spontaneity " The result of these labors, the 1950 study The Authoritarian Personality was pioneering in its combination of quantitative and qualitative methods of collecting and evaluating data as well as its development of the F-scale.

In addition, Louis Agassiz of Switzerland established his reputation through the study of freshwater fish and organisms and the pioneering of paleoichthyology.

American Linguistic Anthropology, pioneering the study of the relationship between language and social context.

Hull House used the latest methodology ( pioneering in statistical mapping ) to study overcrowding, truancy, typhoid fever, cocaine, children's reading, newsboys, infant mortality, and midwifery.

A pioneering study of Peto and Harnett is Alfred Frankenstein's After the Hunt, William Harnett and Other American Still Life Painters 1870-1900.

In fact, until Paul Barguet's 1967 " pioneering study " of common themes between texts, Egyptologists concluded there was no internal structure at all.

While twins have been of interest to scholars since early civilization, such as the early physician Hippocrates ( 5th c. BCE ), who attributed similar diseases in twins to shared material circumstances, and the stoic philosopher Posidonius ( 1st c. BCE ), who attributed such similarities to shared astrological circumstances, the modern history of the twin study derives from Sir Francis Galton's pioneering use of twins to study the role of genes and environment on human development and behavior.

) Anthropologists Kruckman and Stern tested the idea cross culturally, and their pioneering study determined six ways in which postpartum rituals, including the use of the postpartum ritual, la cuarentena, in Chicago Latina mothers, to protect or cushion the expression of mood disorders.

Bear Island was the site of a pioneering ecological study by Victor Summerhayes and Charles Elton in the early 1920s, which produced one of the first food web diagrams.

An influential pioneering study was Women, Work, and Family ( 1978 ), by Louise A. Tilly and Joan W. Scott.

It was the first new British university in the 20th century, founded in 1949 as an experimental college dedicated to a broad curriculum and interdisciplinary study, Keele is most notable for pioneering the dual honours degree in Britain.

Breadth of study was guaranteed by the " pioneering " four-year dual-honours degree programmes initially offered by Keele.

In 1994, Merton was awarded the US National Medal of Science, for " founding the sociology of science and for his pioneering contributions to the study of social life, especially the self-fulfilling prophecy and the unintended consequences of social action ".

The close Speckled-GWT relationship suggested by mtDNA data could of course still apply to the taxa in general, not just to sequences in 2 maternally inherited genes in a few individual ducks ( for which it without doubt does apply ), but the overall failure of Johnson & Sorenson to seriously take hybridization into account and their small sample sizes and obsolete conceptions of Indian Ocean biogeography do not help at all to resolve the issue, but in 1999, the methodology and interpretation were reasonable enough and in fact, the study was pioneering in many respects due to dense taxon-level sampling and still represents one of the default references for interpreting the pyhlogeny of the genus.

He revealed the history of the Earth's magnetic field through pioneering the study of the magnetic orientation of minerals in rocks.

Frazer's pioneering work < ref >" For those who see Frazer's work as the start of anthropological study in its modern sense, the site and the cult of Nemi must hold a particular place: This

Fei Xiaotong, or Fei Hsiao-Tung ( November 2, 1910 – April 24, 2005 ) was a pioneering Chinese researcher and professor of sociology and anthropology ; he was also noted for his studies in the study of China's ethnic groups as well as a social activist.

Wigston was the subject of W. G. Hoskins's pioneering historical study, The Midland Peasant ( London: Macmillan, 1965 ), which traced the social history of this village from earliest recorded history into the 19th century.

In 1951, Dmitry Okhotsimsky carried out a pioneering engineering study of general sequential and parallel staging, with and without the pumping of fuel between stages.

Greatly expanding his familiarity with historical and social subjects, Kogălniceanu also began work on his first volumes: a pioneering study on the Roma people and the French-language Histoire de la Valachie, de la Moldavie, et des Vlaques transdanubiens (" A History of Wallachia, Moldavia, and of Transdanubian Vlachs ", the first volume in a synthesis of Romanian history ), both of which were first published in 1837 inside the German Confederation.

" The third record by his biracial L. A. band is wild and funny and totally pioneering: folk rock turned into elegant Armageddon with the symphonic sweep and mariachi-brass drama of ' Alone Again Or ' and ' You Set the Scene.

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin ( 1 March 1812 – 14 September 1852 ) was an English architect, designer, artist and critic, chiefly remembered for his pioneering role in the Gothic Revival style ; his work culminated in the interior design of the Palace of Westminster.

Allan Dwan ( April 3, 1885 – December 28, 1981 ) was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer and screenwriter.

Because of its pioneering efforts, Acadia is a laureate of Washington ’ s Smithsonian Institution and a part of the permanent research collection of the National Museum of American History.

From 1890 on, he had a friend and admirer in Judge Francis C. Russell of Chicago, who introduced Peirce to editor Paul Carus and owner Edward C. Hegeler of the pioneering American philosophy journal The Monist, which eventually published articles by Peirce, at least 14.

Rogers is widely considered to be one of the founding fathers of psychotherapy research and was honored for his pioneering research with the Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions by the American Psychological Association in 1956.

David Llewelyn Wark " D. W ." Griffith ( January 22, 1875 – July 23, 1948 ) was a premier pioneering American film director.

The pioneering American psychologist William James commented that:

Ernest Gary Gygax ( ; July 27, 1938 – March 4, 2008 ) was an American writer and game designer best known for co-creating the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons ( D & D ) with Dave Arneson.

These include: In 1959 he became a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ; in 1967 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences ; the ACM's Turing Award for making " basic contributions to artificial intelligence, the psychology of human cognition, and list processing " ( 1975 ); the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics " for his pioneering research into the decision-making process within economic organizations " ( 1978 ); the National Medal of Science ( 1986 ); and the APA's Award for Outstanding Lifetime Contributions to Psychology ( 1993 ).

Its approach was described by Dave Kehr in The New York Times: " Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding on the radio, Ernie Kovacs on television, Stan Freberg on records, Harvey Kurtzman in the early issues of Mad: all of those pioneering humorists and many others realized that the real world mattered less to people than the sea of sounds and images that the ever more powerful mass media were pumping into American lives.

Soviet astronomer Iosif Shklovskii wrote the pioneering book in the field Universe, Life, Intelligence ( 1962 ), which was expanded upon by American astronomer Carl Sagan as the best-selling Intelligent Life in the Universe ( 1966 ).

** Benjamin Libet, American pioneering scientist in the field of human consciousness ( d. 2007 )

The Bregman Electronic Music studio was one of the pioneering studios at American universities and became a center for many visiting composers.

Later about 25 petrol powered outboards may have been produced in 1896 by American Motors Co — but neither of these two pioneering efforts appear to have had much impact.

James Wilson Rouse ( April 26, 1914-April 9, 1996 ), founder of The Rouse Company, was a pioneering American real estate developer, urban planner, civic activist, and later, free enterprise-based philanthropist.

He was a relative of Pierre Bernard, a pioneering American yogi, scholar, occultist, philosopher, mystic, and businessman.

Francis Bret Harte ( August 25, 1836 – May 6, 1902 ) was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California.

American alternative punk rock group Devo created many self-produced music videos, which were included in the pioneering compilation " The Truth About Devolution ", directed by Chuck Statler.

Reginald Aubrey Fessenden ( October 6, 1866 – July 22, 1932 ), a naturalized American citizen born in Quebec, Canada, was an inventor who performed pioneering experiments in radio, including early — and possibly the first — radio transmissions of voice and music.

These pioneering grass-root programs will hopefully ignite positive changes in kids and in competitive cycling in the U. S. EPVA also hosts 3 professional level events per year, held in May, July and September and are part of the American Track Racing Association National Championship Series.

* Sam Chu Lin, pioneering Chinese American journalist

* Jacob A. Riis, an American immigrant photographer famous for his book How the Other Half Lives, a pioneering work of photojournalism.

David Da-i Ho (; born November 3, 1952 ) is a Taiwanese American AIDS researcher famous for pioneering the use of protease inhibitors in treating HIV-infected patients with his team.