The Black Sea deluge theory ( published in 1997 by William Ryan and Walter Pitman from Columbia University ) contends that the Bosphorus was formed about 5600 BC when the rising waters of the Mediterranean / Sea of Marmara breached through to the Black Sea, which at the time ( according to the theory ) was a low-lying body of fresh water.

In the early 1900s, after the rediscovery of Mendel's work, the gaps in understanding between genetics and evolutionary Darwinism led to vigorous debate among biometricians, such as Walter Weldon and Karl Pearson, and Mendelians, such as Charles Davenport, William Bateson and Wilhelm Johannsen.

In Scotland the only one which has survived the convulsions of the 16th century is Aberdeen Breviary, a Scottish form of the Sarum Office ( the Sarum Rite was much favoured in Scotland as a kind of protest against the jurisdiction claimed by the diocese of York ), revised by William Elphinstone ( bishop 1483 – 1514 ), and printed at Edinburgh by Walter Chapman and Andrew Myllar in 1509 – 1510.

Band structure calculations was first used in 1930 to predict the properties of new materials, and in 1947 John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley developed the first semiconductor-based transistor, heralding a revolution in electronics.

Also, Ditka, Dick Butkus, Walter Payton, Jim McMahon, William " Refrigerator " Perry and Brian Urlacher are among Bears figures known for their appearances in TV commercials.

* 1947 – William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.

Several editors-in-chief of the Britannica are likely to have read their editions completely, such as William Smellie ( 1st edition ), William Robertson Smith ( 9th edition ), and Walter Yust ( 14th edition ).

Among his predecessors as editors-in-chief were Hugh Chisholm ( 1902 – 1924 ), James Louis Garvin ( 1926 – 1932 ), Franklin Henry Hooper ( 1932 – 1938 ), Walter Yust ( 1938 – 1960 ), Harry Ashmore ( 1960 – 1963 ), Warren E. Preece ( 1964 – 1968, 1969 – 1975 ), Sir William Haley ( 1968 – 1969 ), Philip W. Goetz ( 1979 – 1991 ), and Robert McHenry ( 1992 – 1997 ).

The invention of the transistor in 1947 by William B. Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain opened the door for more compact devices and led to the development of the integrated circuit in 1958 by Jack Kilby and independently in 1959 by Robert Noyce.

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution was appealing to some economists, sociologists and political scientists ( most notably Walter Bagehot and William Graham Sumner ) who adapted and rationalized the invisible hand by incorporating the popular idea of the survival of the fittest.

In this 1926 photo, William P. McCracken, assistant secretary of commerce for civil aviation, is shown with Secretary Hoover ( center ) and assistant secretary of commerce Walter Drake.

According to English philologist Walter William Skeat ( 1835-1912 ), the origin is to be found in the name for a cask or liquid measure appearing in various forms in several Teutonic languages, in Dutch oxhooft ( modern okshoofd ), Danish oxehoved, Old Swedish oxhufvod, etc.

In addition to Sir Walter Scott's The Monastery, a hand-fast marriage is mentioned in William Shakespeare's Cymbeline ( act I, scene vi ).

" Dickson-Wright further cites etymologist Walter William Skeat as further suggestion of possible Scandinavian origins: Skeat claimed that the hag – element of the word is derived from the Old Norse haggw or the Old Icelandic hoggva ( höggva in modern Icelandic ), meaning ' to hew ' or strike with a sharp weapon, relating to the chopped-up contents of the dish.

In 1956, John Bardeen shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with William Shockley of Semiconductor Laboratory of Beckman Instruments and Walter Brattain of Bell Telephone Laboratories " for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect ".

The English philologist and ethnographer Walter William Skeat derives the word from the Old English kippian, to spawn.

The stars were Julie Harris, Walter Matthau and William Shatner.

* Pevsner, Nikolaus, Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius ( New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-300-10571-1 ).

More distant relatives included William Liath de Burgh, Tiobóid mac Walter Ciotach Bourke, and Charles Bourke.

She also read the plays of William Shakespeare, and novels by Charles Dickens and Sir Walter Scott.

File: Bardeen. jpg | John Bardeen ( 1908 – 1991 ): awarded Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor and again in 1972 with Leon Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for a fundamental theory of conventional superconductivity known as the BCS theory.

On 1 February 2009, the FARC-EP proceeded with the release of the four security force members, Juan Fernando Galicio Uribe, José Walter Lozano Guarnizo, Alexis Torres Zapata and William Giovanni Domínguez Castro.

These include the philosophers Albert Schweitzer, Owen Barfield and Richard Tarnas ; the writers Saul Bellow, Michael Ende, Selma Lagerlöf, Andrej Belyj, David Spangler, and William Irwin Thompson ; the artists Josef Beuys, Wassily Kandinsky, and Murray Griffin ; actor and acting teacher Michael Chekhov ; cinema director Andrei Tarkovsky ; and conductor Bruno Walter.

Walter M. Fleming, M. D., and William J. Florence took the idea seriously enough to act upon it.

* 1387 – 8: No mo genders been there but masculine, and femynyne, all the remnaunte been no genders but of grace, in facultie of grammar — Thomas Usk, The Testament of Love II iii ( Walter William Skeat ) 13.

" According to Walter William Skeat, the term schooner comes from scoon, while the sch spelling comes from the later adoption of the Dutch and German spellings (" Schoner ").

Walter W. Skeat ( Oxford, at the Clarendon Press ; 1879 ).

The translation of this name ( from Walter William Skeat of the department of Anglo Saxon at Cambridge University ) means the " Valley of the sons of Alfred ".

* Skeat, Walter W. ( ed.

Sweet, like his contemporary Walter Skeat, felt under particular pressure from German scholars in English studies who, often state-employed, tenured, and accompanied by their comitatus of eager graduate students " annexed " the historical study of English.

* Walter William Skeat ( 1878 )

Walter William Skeat ( 21 November 1835 – 6 October 1912 ), English philologist, was born in London on the 21st of November 1835, and educated at King's College School ( Wimbledon ), Highgate School, and Christ's College, Cambridge, of which he became a fellow in July 1860.

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* Skeat, Walter W. ( 1867 ).

A new publication of the late 19th-century translation by Walter Skeat is available as The Lay of Havelock the Dane-ISBN 1-84384-108-8

* Skeat, Walter.

* Milton's Lament for Damon and his other Latin poems ( 1935 ; with Walter W. Skeat )

Walter W. Skeat, one of the most important figures in the field of English etymology, and Eliza Gutch, founder of the Folklore Society.

Also note the entry on sincere in An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat ( p. 555 ) and Storied Words: The Writer's Vocabulary and Its Origins by Jeff Jeske ( p. 145 ).

Walter Skeat found that the initial letters of the sections formed an acrostic saying, " MARGARET OF VIRTU HAVE MERCI ON TSKNVI.

* Walter William Skeat and wife Bertha Clara Skeat, daughter Bertha Marion Skeat ( 42 )