Trilogy, speculative fiction novels by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, popularized Discordianism with various quotes and references.

According to the OED, John Paul Scott coined the word " sociobiology " at a 1946 conference on genetics and social behaviour, and became widely used after it was popularized by Edward O. Wilson in his 1975 book, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis.

The phrase " What you see is what you get ", from which the acronym derives, was a catchphrase popularized by Flip Wilson's drag persona " Geraldine " ( from Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In in the late 1960s and then on The Flip Wilson Show until 1974 ).

Unsung pioneers of the art include: WLW's Fred Smith ; Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll ( who popularized the dramatic serial ); The Eveready Hour creative team ( which began with one-act plays but was soon experimenting with hour-long combinations of drama and music on its weekly variety program ); the various acting troupes at stations like WLW, WGY, KGO and a number of others, frequently run by women like Helen Schuster Martin and Wilda Wilson Church ; early network continuity writers like Henry Fisk Carlton, William Ford Manley and Don Clark ; producers and directors like Clarence Menser and Gerald Stopp ; and a long list of others who were credited at the time with any number of innovations but who are largely forgotten or undiscussed today.

" ( reprising comedian Pigmeat Markham and further popularized by guest stars Flip Wilson and especially Sammy Davis Jr .)

Edward O. Wilson introduced and popularized the hypothesis in his book, Biophilia ( 1984 ).

* Beautiful Wife, popularized by newspaper columnist Earl Wilson

The word can be used synonymously with consilience, a term Edward Osborne Wilson has popularized with his writings elucidating the apparent unity of all knowledge.

The most common type of flare gun is a Very ( sometimes spelled Verey ) which was named after Edward Wilson Very ( 1847 – 1910 ), an American naval officer who developed and popularized a single-shot breech-loading snub-nosed pistol that fired flares ( Very flares ).

However, The Threefold Law as an actual " law ", was an interpretation of Wiccan ideas and ritual, made by Monique Wilson and further popularized by Raymond Buckland, in his books on Wicca.

#* A song popularized by The Ronettes in 1963 that Wilson was obsessed with

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 ).

In 2006 the BBC documentary The Plot Against Harold Wilson alleged that there had been another plot involving Mountbatten to oust Wilson during his second term in office ( 1974 – 76 ).

After his term as sheriff ended, Cleveland returned to private practice, opening a law firm with his friends Lyman K. Bass and Wilson S. Bissell.

The earliest significant usage of the term ( as applied to music ) was by Joy Division's producer, Tony Wilson on 15 September 1979 in an interview for the BBC TV program's Something Else: Wilson described Joy Division as " Gothic " compared to the pop mainstream, right before a live performance of the band.

Coauthor Wilson later acknowledged the term meme as the best label for the fundamental unit of cultural inheritance in his 1998 book Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, which elaborates upon the fundamental role of memes in unifying the natural and social sciences.

An important theoretical notion concerning the final term of the above Lagrangian is the Wilson loop variable.

A cockfight is a contest held in a ring called a cockpit between two gamecocks or cocks, with the first use of the word gamecock ( denoting use of the cock in game, sport, pastime or entertainment ) appearing in 1646. after the term “ cock of the game ” used by George Wilson, in the earliest known book on the secular sport of cockfighting in The Commendation of Cocks and Cock Fighting in 1607.

The first person in the Anglo-American tradition to use the term " social geography " was George Wilson Hoke, whose paper The Study of Social Geography was published in 1907, yet there is no indication it had any academic impact.

As a way to persuade her boss, Geri ( Kathy Najimy ), to accept her as a partner, Mary pursues and is hired by catering heiress, Fran Donolly ( Bridgette Wilson ) to plan her society wedding to long term boyfriend ‘ Eddie ’.

An ideological rift developed between the two men during their first term, leading Wilson to limit Marshall's influence in the administration, and his brand of humor caused Wilson to move Marshall's office away from the White House.

During Marshall's second term he delivered morale-boosting speeches across the nation during World War I and became the first vice president to hold cabinet meetings, which he did while Wilson was in Europe.

Wilson began to recover by the end of 1919, but remained secluded for the remainder of his term, steadfast in his refusal or inability to accept changes to the treaty.

In his first term as President, Wilson persuaded a Democratic Congress to pass major progressive reforms.

Historian John M. Cooper argues that, in his first term, Wilson successfully pushed a legislative agenda that few presidents have equaled, and remained unmatched up until the New Deal.

During his term in office, Wilson gave a well-known Flag Day speech that fueled the wave of anti-German sentiment sweeping the country in 1917 – 18.

** U. S. President Woodrow Wilson begins his second term.

W. V. Quine argued for a Coherentist approach to science, as do E O Wilson and Kenneth Craik, though neither use the term " Coherentism " to describe their views.

In its present connotation, the term “ ventral striatum ” was introduced in 1975 by Heimer and Wilson to differentiate it from the dorsal, sensorimotor-related part of the striatum ( i. e., the caudate-putamen complex ).

Another major controversy of the first Wilson term was the decision that the government could not fulfil its long-held promise to raise the school leaving age to 16, because of the investment required in infrastructure, such as extra classrooms and teachers.

Altogether, the increases made in pensions and other benefits during Wilson ’ s first year in office were the largest ever real term increases carried out up until that point.

A long term addition of 9 shillings ( which was subsequently increased to 10 shillings ) a week was provided for the allowances of all pensioners and for the long term sick, while the real value of most existing benefits was increased, ( such as family allowances, which were substantially raised in 1967 and 1968 ) with benefits rising at roughly the same rate as salaries over the course of the First Wilson Government, while family allowances were significantly increased.

This stems from Gould's long-running public debate with E. O. Wilson and other evolutionary biologists over human sociobiology and its descendant evolutionary psychology, which Gould and Richard Lewontin opposed, but which Dennett advocated, together with Dawkins and Steven Pinker.

Wilson defines sociobiology as: “ The extension of population biology and evolutionary theory to social organization ”

E. O. Wilson, a central figure in the history of sociobiology.

In 2010, famed Harvard biologist E. O. Wilson, a founder of modern sociobiology, proposed a new theory of social evolution.

This line of enquiry was pioneered by E. O. Wilson who founded the field termed as sociobiology.

* E. O. Wilson ( 1929 — ), Pulitzer Prize winning American myrmecologist, revolutionized the field of sociobiology

" The three criticized sociobiology, evolutionary psychology, and adaptationism, most prominently in the book Not in Our Genes ( 1984 ), laying out their opposition to Sociobiology ( E. O. Wilson, 1975 ), The Selfish Gene ( Richard Dawkins, 1976 ), and other works promoting an evolutionary explanation for human social behaviour.

Sociobiology: The New Synthesis is a book by E. O. Wilson that helped start the sociobiology debate, one of the great scientific controversies in biology of the 20th century ( see Criticism of evolutionary psychology ).

* 2000 Dr. Edward O. Wilson, Harvard University, for the introduction of biological thought into the social sciences to create the field of sociobiology.