It was given its current name by Frank Beckwith, leader of the Arches National Monument Scientific Expedition, who explored the area in the winter of 1933 – 1934.

There could be no SHELAB — the astronauts would work out of the LM — and the LTV accommodating two persons took the name Local Scientific Surface Module ( LSSM ).

A January 1983 Metamagical Themas column by Douglas Hofstadter, in Scientific American, was influential as was his 1985 book of the same name.

* Office of Scientific Intelligence, former name of a department of the Central Intelligence Agency now called the Directorate of Science and Technology

In 1948, three partners who were planning on starting a new popular science magazine, to be called The Sciences, purchased the assets of the old Scientific American instead and put its name on the designs they had created for their new magazine.

Scientific name Ilex paraguariensis.

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The company name is an acronym standing for " Potter Scientific Instruments ", after the company's founder, David Potter.

The executive board of the foundation continued its activities, changing its name in 2003 into " Fund for Scientific Research of Sexuality.

The name " International Scientific Vocabulary " was first used by Philip Gove in Webster ’ s Third New International Dictionary ( 1961 ).

When the organization was formed in 1976, the original name proposed was " Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal and Other Phenomena " which was shortened to " Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal.

" Seismic " was replaced by " Scientific " in the name, allowing the project to retain the designation ASC.

The generic name Bombycilla, from Latin Bombyx ( silk / silk moth ) + Scientific Latin cilla ( tail ), is a direct translation of the Swedish name ' Sidensvans ', silk-tail, and refers to the silky-soft plumage of the bird ; the species name garrulus means ' talkative ' and refers to a resemblance to the European Jay, Glandularius garrulus ,.

The Dall – Kirkham Cassegrain telescope's design was created by Horace Dall in 1928 and took on the name in an article published in Scientific American in 1930 following discussion between amateur astronomer Allan Kirkham and Albert G. Ingalls, the magazine editor at the time.

The wide expanse of Saunton Sands, which takes its name from Saunton, merges into the Braunton Burrows Site of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSI ), the largest sand dune system ( psammosere ) in England and a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve.

In 1958 it was renamed The Carl-Gustaf Rossby Award for Extraordinary Scientific Achievement, and after 1963, its current name.

A similar story to Wan Hu's appeared in article by John Elfreth Watkins published in October 2, 1909 issue of Scientific American, but used the name Wang Tu instead of Wan Hu:

In Lviv, Petliura lived under the name of Sviatoslav Tagon working alongside Ivan Franko, Volodymyr Hnatiuk publishing and working as an editor for the " Literaturno-Naukovy Zbirnyk " Journal ( Literary-Scientific Collection ), the Shevchenko Scientific Society and as a co-editor of " Volya " magazine.

Multiple mergers in the 1970s led to name changes, settling at Elsevier Scientific Publishers in 1979.

The island's name is derived from the Old English fulga-naess, with fulga ( modern " fowl ") meaning wild birds and " naess " being the Germanic word for promontory, and it remains an important centre for birds, with the area around Foulness Point designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSI ).

In a 1975 April Fool article in Scientific American magazine, " Mathematical Games " columnist Martin Gardner made the ( hoax ) claim that the number was in fact an integer, and that the Indian mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan had predicted it — hence its name.

At a distance of from the Moon, the Scientific Instrument Module ( SIM ) bay cover was jettisoned.

The boom that extended the mass spectrometer out from the Command / Service Module's Scientific Instruments Bay was stuck in a semi-deployed position.

The crew's next task, after jettisoning the Lunar Module ascent stage, was to release a sub-satellite into lunar orbit from the CSM's Scientific Instrument Bay.

Botany was greatly stimulated by the appearance of the first " modern " text book, Matthias Schleiden's, published in English in 1849 as Principles of Scientific Botany.

It was an initiative of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, and of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization and involves chemical societies, academics, and institutions worldwide and relied on individual initiatives to organize local and regional activities.

This new ideology was known as the creation of a harmonious society using the Scientific Development Concept.

Gini was also a leading fascist theorist and ideologue who wrote The Scientific Basis of Fascism in 1927.

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.

Although the concept of consilience in Whewell's sense was widely discussed by philosophers of science, the term was unfamiliar to the broader public until the end of the 20th century, when it was revived in Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, a 1998 book by the humanist biologist Edward Osborne Wilson, as an attempt to bridge the culture gap between the sciences and the humanities that was the subject of C. P. Snow's The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution ( 1959 ).

* Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time ( 1995 ) – the genius in question was John Harrison, who spent decades trying to convince the British Admiralty of the accuracy of his naval timepieces and their use in determining longitude when at sea in order to win the longitude prize.

On his 100th birthday, he was interviewed by Scientific American magazine.

Charles Sanders Peirce was a fallibilist and the most developed form of fallibilism can be traced to Karl Popper ( 1902 – 1994 ) whose first book Logik Der Forschung ( The Logic of Scientific Discovery ), 1934 introduced a " conjectural turn " into the philosophy of science and epistemology at large.

In the Scientific American supplement for 1882, it was remarked that " for two or three of his researches he deserves the highest honor a scientific man can obtain, but the sum of his work is absolutely overwhelming.

The report was reprinted in Scientific American on April 19.

Pohl then says that " on reflection ' Cosmos ' seemed to take in a bit more territory than was justified, so we changed it to the International Scientific Association ( it wasn't International either, but then it also wasn't scientific )".

The ISA then was renamed New York Branch-International Scientific Association ( NYB-ISA ).

Brundtland was recognized in 2003 by Scientific American as their Policy Leader of the Year for coordinating a rapid worldwide response to stem outbreaks of SARS.

Wells's first non-fiction bestseller was Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought ( 1901 ).

The Italian mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Galileo Galilei ( 1564 – 1642 ) was the central figure in the Scientific Revolution and famous for his support for Copernianism, his astronomical discoveries, and his improvement of the telescope.

In October 1939 he became Minister in charge of Scientific and Industrial Research, and during November – December 1939 he was Acting Minister for Air and Civil Aviation.

At the 16th meeting of the IMU General Assembly in Bangalore, India in August 2010, Berlin was chosen as the location of the permanent office of the IMU, which was opened on January 1, 2011, and is hosted by the Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics ( WIAS ), an institute of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Scientific Community, with about 120 scientists engaging in mathematical research applied to complex problems in industry and commerce.