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Oldenburg's contributions were soon exhausted and the boys had to turn to a wider circle of the town's learned, such as the pastor, to supplement the simple teaching.
Despite Hahn's efforts, the contributions of Meitner and Frisch were not recognized.
In the nineteenth century the major figures of mathematical acoustics were Helmholtz in Germany, who consolidated the field of physiological acoustics, and Lord Rayleigh in England, who combined the previous knowledge with his own copious contributions to the field in his monumental work The Theory of Sound ( 1877 ).
Due to his contributions to natural philosophy, the plant species Alberta magna and the asteroid 20006 Albertus Magnus were named after him.
Du Bois ' Black Reconstruction, first published in 1935, historians have noted African American contributions during Reconstruction to founding what were often the first systems of public education and welfare institutions in the South, gave muted praise for Republican efforts to extend suffrage and provide other social institutions, and excoriated Johnson for opposing the extension of basic rights to freedmen.
Lavoisier's fundamental contributions to chemistry were a result of a conscious effort to fit all experiments into the framework of a single theory.
Shakers today are most known for their cultural contributions ( especially style of music and furniture ). The Shakers composed thousands of songs, and also created many dances ; both were an important part of the Shaker worship services.
Many individuals who have made significant contributions to Acadia University, including the first president John Pryor, were members of the First Baptist Church Halifax congregation.
At the end of this period, the two were sent up to Jerusalem ( 44 ) with the contributions the church at Antioch had made for the poorer members of the Jerusalem church.
Lavoisier's fundamental contributions to chemistry were a result of a conscious effort to fit all experiments into the framework of a single theory.
Marconi's contributions to Cape Breton Island were also quite significant as he used the island's geography to his advantage in transmitting the first North American trans-Atlantic radio message from a station constructed at Table Head in Glace Bay to a receiving station at Poldhu in Cornwall, England.
The following scientists were recognized for their contributions to chromatin research with Nobel Prizes:
Key contributions were made by the Danish scholars Rasmus Rask and Karl Verner and the German scholar Jacob Grimm.
In a respectful way, both men routinely published the contributions of others whose positions were radically different from their own.
Galois ' mathematical contributions were published in full in 1843 when Liouville reviewed his manuscript and declared it sound.
Kraepelin's contributions were to a large extent marginalized throughout a good part of the twentieth century, during the success of Freudian etiological theories.
For contributions to the unification of the weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, Abdus Salam, Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979.
As important as Crick's contributions to the discovery of the double helical DNA model were, he stated that without the chance to collaborate with Watson, he would not have found the structure by himself.
In grateful recognition of that fact, on the fiftieth anniversary ( May 16, 1866 ) of the date of Windischmann's preface to that work, a fund called Die Bopp-Stiftung, for the promotion of the study of Sanskrit and comparative grammar, was established at Berlin, to which liberal contributions were made by his numerous pupils and admirers in all parts of the globe.
In 1984, Nineteen Eighty-Four and Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 were honoured with the Prometheus Award for their contributions to dystopian literature.
Further contributions to the Gothic genre were provided in the work of the Romantic poets.
Although we were competitors, I always had tremendous respect for his contributions to the PC industry.
" They contended the only contributions of the female to the next generation were the womb in which the homunculus grew, and prenatal influences of the womb.
His contributions to the genre as publisher were so significant that, along with H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, he is sometimes popularly called " The Father of Science Fiction ".

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Notable confucianists, taoists and scholars of all classes have made significant contributions to and from documenting history to authoring saintly concepts that seem hundred of years ahead of time.
Sir Nevill Mott, Nobel Laureate in 1977 for his own contributions to solid-state electronics, remarked that " J. C. Bose was at least 60 years ahead of his time " and " In fact, he had anticipated the existence of P-type and N-type semiconductors.
The PBGC would like required contributions ( a. k. a. minimum contributions ) to insured defined benefit pension plans to be considered " administrative expenses " in bankruptcy, thereby obtaining priority treatment ahead of the unsecured creditors.
* < sup > b </ sup > " the model was too far ahead of anything they could handle and it was shelved while he worked on a more conventional job, which he did at Pearl Harbor, just before the war, and some Buck Rogers contributions which were his lot at Wright Field during the conflict.

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This type of sociology seeks contributions that aid grassroots and theoretical understandings of what motivates altruism and how it is organized, and promotes an altruistic focus in order to benefit the world and people it studies.
The contributions of Lavoisier led to what is now called modern chemistry — the chemistry that is studied in educational institutions all over the world.
Starting in the late 1950s and continuing through the 1970s, concurrently with the contributions of Ellis and Beck, Arnold A. Lazarus developed what was arguably the first form of " broad-spectrum " cognitive behavioral therapy.
It is the task of every generation to reassess the tradition in which it lives, to discard what it cannot use, and to bring into context with the distant and intermediate past the most recent contributions to the Great Conversation.
The theory of what came to be known as Banach spaces had antecedents in the work of the Hungarian mathematician Frigyes Riesz ( published in 1916 ) and contemporaneous contributions from Hans Hahn and Norbert Wiener.
" Horkheimer ’ s contributions to this debate, in the form of the essays " The Authoritarian State ," " The End of Reason " and " The Jews and Europe " served as a foundation for what he and Adorno planned to do in their book on dialectical logic.
Bernstein magnanimously removed his name as co-author of the lyrics, although Sondheim was uncertain he wanted to receive sole credit for what he considered to be overly florid contributions by Bernstein.
" In 1901 Gibbs received what was then considered the highest honor awarded by the international scientific community, the Copley Medal of the Royal Society of London, " for his contributions to mathematical physics.
In other words, the contributions made by the Library of Congress in that time gave “ librarians ‘ a new conception of what a truly national library could be ' and added one more item ‘ to the long list of benefits for which American libraries have to thank the Library and the Librarian, of Congress .”
Business supporters, determined to defeat the Democratic-populist William Jennings Bryan, were more than happy to give, and Hanna actually refunded or turned down what he considered to be " excessive " contributions that exceeded a business's assessment.
He is most noted for his contributions to molecular theory, including what is known as Avogadro's law.
He also found the time for an intensive programme of writing and research, which produced the first of what were to be many significant contributions to psychoanalytic literature, notably monographs on Hamlet and On the Nightmare.
Historically, support for modern multiculturalism stems from the changes in Western societies after World War II, in what Susanne Wessendorf calls the " human rights revolution ", in which the horrors of institutionalized racism and ethnic cleansing became almost impossible to ignore in the wake of the Holocaust ; with the collapse of the European colonial system, as colonized nations in Africa and Asia successfully fought for their independence and pointed out the racist underpinnings of the colonial system ; and, in the United States in particular, with the rise of the Civil Rights Movement, which criticized ideals of assimilation that often led to prejudices against those who did not act according to Anglo-American standards and which led to the development of academic ethnic studies programs as a way to counteract the neglect of contributions by racial minorities in classrooms.
Watson stated that he was not making original contributions, but was just doing what was normal practice in advertising.
As a result, it has influenced many Fuzhou people to learn the Cantonese language as well to maintain a job and to be able to bring more Cantonese customers as additional contributions to their businesses, especially large businesses like the Dim Sum restaurants on what is known as Little Fuzhou on East Broadway ( 小福州 ), the center of Fuzhou culture.
The book chronicles how the village and its people adapted to these environmental changes, survived and prospered, while at the same time making significant contributions to American society beyond what would be expected from a small village.
Winchelsey did concede though that if the war with France, which was what the money was requested to fund, continued into the following year, then the clergy would be amenable to making further contributions.
The updates have taken into account the evolving duties, responsibilities, and expectations of the profession ; however the core dictate of the body of the code --“ to integrity ; public service ; seek no favor ; exemplary conduct in both personal and professional matters ; respect the role and contributions of elected officials ; exercise the independence to do what is right ; political neutrality ; serve the public equitably and governing body members equally ; keep the community informed about local government matters ; and support and lead our employ-ees ”— have not changed since the first edition.
The program's sustainability depends upon the payout rates and Social Security tax rates, the number of workers supporting each retiree, the rate of productivity growth among the remaining workers and the mechanics of how the excess contributions to the Trust Fund are handled ( e. g. a " lock box " and for what sort of asset ).
The DNC also relies on the monthly contributions of over 35, 000 small-dollar donors through what is known as the Democracy Bonds program, set up by Howard Dean in the summer of 2005.
The interwar period saw the development of a new form of criticism towards Spiritism: René Guénon's influential book The Spiritist Fallacy, which criticized both the more general concepts of Spiritualism, which he considered to be a superficial mix of moralism and spiritual materialism, as well as Spiritism's specific contributions, such as its belief in what he saw as a post-Cartesian, modernist concept of reincarnation that is distinct from and opposed to its two western predecessors, metempsychosis and transmigration.
She donated the money needed to purchase the house and make it a museum, agreed to make significant contributions each year for its upkeep and also gave many of the family's belongings to help establish what became a popular museum that still draws thousands of visitors each year to Mansfield.
She donated the money needed to purchase the house and make it a museum, agreed to make significant contributions each year for its upkeep and also gave many of the family's belongings to help establish what became a popular museum which still draws thousands of visitors each year to Mansfield.

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