Significant individual contributions to the war effort by Scots included the invention of radar by Robert Watson-Watt, which was invaluable in the Battle of Britain, as was the leadership at RAF Fighter Command of Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding.

Significant contributions to noise pollution are made by internal combustion engines.

Significant contributions to oceanographic knowledge were made by the voyages of HMS Beagle in the 1830s, with Charles Darwin aboard ; HMS Challenger during the 1870s ; the USS Tuscarora ( 1873 – 76 ); and the German Gazelle ( 1874 – 76 ).

Significant were the contributions of Nicolas Jenson, Francesco Griffo, Aldus Manutius, and other printers of late fifteenth-century Europe.

Significant early contributions to New Keynesian theory were compiled in 1991 by editors N. Gregory Mankiw and David Romer in New Keynesian Economics, volumes 1 and 2.

Significant contributions in this time frame were made by Milan Trninic ( Galdos ) ( default styles, CRS ), Ron Lake ( Galdos ) ( Observations ), Richard Martell ( Galdos ) ( dynamic features ).

Significant contributions were also made by people such as Nigel Bree ( from Auckland, New Zealand ).

Significant contributions are credited in the AUTHORS file included in the distribution, and all remaining ones are documented in the changelogs, also included with the program.

Significant contributions to bandura construction were made by Hnat Khotkevych, Leonid Haydamaka, Peter Honcharenko, Ivan Skliar, Vasyl Herasymenko and William Vetzal.

Significant contributions to modern stapedectomy techniques were then made by the late Dr. Antonio De La Cruz of the House Ear Institute in Los Angeles ; by the late Professor Henri André Martin of the Hôpital Edouard Herriot in Lyon, France, including calibrated platinotomy ( stapes footplate rather than whole surgery ) and trans-footplate piston surgery that also paved the way for modern stapedotomy ; and by the late Dr. Jean-René Causse of the eponymous clinic in Béziers, France, who pioneered the use of Teflon piston prostheses ( also critical progress for stapedotomy ) and, with his late son Dr. Jean-Bernard Causse, the reattachment of the stapedius muscle alongside the use of veinous grafts.

Significant contributions to the first of these problems were made by Konrad Lorenz and other early ethologists.

Significant contributions of the times include:

Significant contributions of the times include:

Significant contributions of the times include:

Significant contributions to the field have been made by Sergei Artemov, Lev Beklemishev, Giorgi Japaridze, Dick de Jongh, Franco Montagna, Vladimir Shavrukov, Albert Visser and others.

Significant contributions have been made in many branches, most of all in the physics department.

Significant to the history of both approaches were the contributions made by Bernard Weiner in the 1970s.

Significant contributions have also been made in the field of gravitational wave detectors.

Significant political contributions from the four to favored Democratic candidates has played a role in electing a Democratic majority in Colorado's house and senate.

Significant additional moisture contributions occur from fog drip off trees and rime deposition on trees, with many days during the year being spent amid orographic feeder clouds that cap its upper elevations.

Significant stands of trees have been destroyed by the ravages of the war.

Significant dependence on foreign food producers makes a country strategically vulnerable in the event of war, blockade or embargo.

Significant unrest is now reported to be fermenting in the camps, especially as the United Nations terminates a number of educational and welfare programmes in an effort to force Bhutan and Nepal to come to terms.

Significant post-retirement activities of earlier Governors-General have included: Lord Tennyson was appointed Deputy Governor of the Isle of Wight ; Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson ( by now Lord Novar ) became Secretary of State for Scotland ; and Lord Gowrie became Chairman of the Marylebone Cricket Club ( Lord Forster had also held this post, before his appointment as Governor-General ).

Significant player moves in-season included a July 28 deal acquiring outfielders Carlos Lee and Nelson Cruz from the Milwaukee Brewers in exchange for Kevin Mench, Francisco Cordero, and Laynce Nix.

Significant political developments in Europe included the lack of a Holy Roman Emperor for most of the decade, further erosion of the power of the monarchy in England and Portugal, the end of the failed Seventh Crusade in Egypt, and the expulsion of the Jews from France and the Moors from Portugal.

Significant jumpers from the United States are included in the Show Jumping Hall of Fame.

Significant new construction in the 1970s included the Elaine Langone Center, the Gerhard Fieldhouse, and the Computer Center.

Significant pogroms in the Russian Empire included the Odessa pogroms, Warsaw pogrom ( 1881 ), Kishinev pogrom ( 1903 ), Kiev Pogrom ( 1905 ) and the Białystok pogrom ( 1906 ).

Significant early Wolf recording artists included Elisabeth Schumann, Heinrich Rehkemper, Heinrich Schlusnus, Josef von Manowarda, Lotte Lehmann, Karl Erb and others.

Significant political poets of the 20th century included Dame Mary Gilmore and Judith Wright.

Significant artists included And One, Armageddon Dildos, Bigod 20, The Neon Judgement, and Attrition.

Significant uses of terracotta have included Emperor Qin Shi Huang's Terracotta Army of China, built in 210 – 209 BC.

Significant changes introduced into the 1968 document included Article 6, which committed the state to adhere to the " principles of socialist internationalism " and to devote special attention to its " fraternal ties " with the Soviet Union ; Article 9, which based the national economy on the " socialist ownership of the means of production "; Article 20, which under pressure from the churches granted freedom of conscience and belief ; Article 21, which maintained that the " basic rights " of citizenship were inseparably linked with " corresponding obligations "; and Article 47, which declared that the principle of " democratic centralism " is the authoritative maxim for the construction of the socialist state.

Significant developments included:

Significant appearances included starring in the limited series Deadly Foes of Spider-Man # 1-4 ( May-Aug. 1991 ); the Flowers for Rhino storyline in Spider-Man's Tangled Web # 5-6 ( Oct .-Nov. 2001 ) which is told from the character's perspective, and Punisher War Journal vol.

Significant cards included Yoda, another new version of Luke ( Son of Skywalker ) and all of the bounty hunters, their ships, and weapons ( except Boba Fett ).

Significant developments included the formation of the Association for Humanistic Psychology ( AHP ) in 1961 and the launch of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology ( originally " The Phoenix ") in 1961.

Significant non-surge areas of Escambia County south of US 98 were included in evacuation areas because of the potential for isolation by flooding.

Significant shows at regional galleries included a survey of contemporary outsider art at Orange Regional Gallery, and a survey of the important commercial Gallery A and Anne Judell at Campbelltown Regional Gallery, Lawrence Daws at Caloundra Regional Art Gallery and the Janet Dawson survey at Bathurst Regional Gallery.

Significant minorities included Poles and Jews, as well as 50, 000 Romanians, some Germans, and a few Armenians.

Significant popular British New Wave acts at the end of the decade included The Boomtown Rats and Ian Dury and the Blockheads.

Significant customers included Post Office Ltd, the Inland Revenue, the Department for Work and Pensions and the Ministry of Defence.

Significant early European settlers included the Chandler family.