Artificial life
... away from any particular medium". ( John
von Neumann ). Notably the position of Tom Ray who ... intelligence, was math and computer prodigy John
von Neumann . At the Hixon Symposium , hosted by ... in Pasadena, California in the late 1940s ,
von Neumann delivered a lecture titled "The General ...
Biophysics
...
Luigi Galvani , discoverer of bioelectricity
Hermann
von Helmholtz , first to measure the velocity of nerve impulses
Alan ... Andrew Huxley , created modern understanding of nerve impulses
Georg
von Bksy , research on the human ear
Bernard Katz , discovered how ...
Carolus Linnaeus
... Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as Carl
von Linn , and who wrote under the Latinized name Carolus Linnaeus ( May ... the privy council had confirmed the ennoblement Linnaeus took the surname
von Linn , later often signing just Carl Linn . His father, born Nils ...
Charles Darwin
... and advice he was in no rush to take holy orders.
Inspired by Alexander
von Humboldt 's Personal Narrative he wanted to study natural history in the ... Remarks was a great success, and was receiving praise by even Alexander
von Humboldt , one of Darwin's heros and models of a scientific explorer. ...
Diabetes mellitus
... of the role of the pancreas in diabetes is generally credited to Joseph
von Mering and Oskar Minkowski , two European researchers who, in 1889 , ... Frederick Grant Banting and Charles Herbert Best repeated the work of
von Mering and Minkowski but went a step further and managed to show that they ...
Eugenics
... to the more ghastly experiments carried out by Josef Mengele for Otmar
von Verschuer on twins in the concentration camps. During the 1930s and ... in the post-war world, such as Robert Yerkes in the USA and Otmar
von Verschuer in Germany. Californian eugenicist Paul Popenoe became the ...
Rudolf Steiner
... schools of art. It was within the Society that Steiner met his wife Marie
von Sievers, with whom he developed a new artform known as Eurythmy (aka ... Airport ( 1962 ).
Within the Society, Steiner met his wife Marie
von Sievers, with whom he developed a new artform (that also has therapeutic ...
Botany
... microscope, Robert Hooke discovered cells in cork ; a short time later in living plant tissue. The German Leonhart Fuchs , the Swiss Conrad
von Gesner , and the British authors Nicholas Culpeper and John Gerard , published herbals that gave information on the officinal uses of plants.
...
Chromosome
... In its relaxed state, the DNA can be accessed for transcription , regulation, and replication . Chromosomes were first observed by Karl Wilhelm
von Ngeli in 1842 and their behavior later described in detail by Walther Flemming in 1882 . In 1910 , Thomas Hunt Morgan proved that ...
Fehling's solution
... aldehyde groups. An example for its use is to screen for glucose in urine , thus detecting diabetes . It was developed by German chemist Hermann
von Fehling .
Preparation
Fehling's solution is always made just prior to the test. Two equal volumes of solutions are mixed:
70 grams ...
Gregor Mendel
... century that the importance of his ideas was realized. In 1900 , his work was finally rediscovered by Hugo de Vries , Carl Correns and Erich
von Tschermak . His results were quickly replicated, and genetic linkage quickly worked out. However, a period of tense argument ensued over its ...
Homunculus
... woman devoid of morals or conscience. Several cinematic adaptations of Alraune have been made over the years, the most recent in 1952 with Erich
von Stroheim . The 1995 film Species also appears to draw some inspiration from this variation on the homunculus legend.
In the anime and ...
Ichthyology
... Emanuel Agassiz
Louis Agassiz
Peter Artedi
William O. Ayres - California
Spencer Fullerton Baird
Tarleton Bean
Pieter
von Bleeker - East Indies
Marcus Elieser Bloch
George Albert Boulenger
Edward Drinker Cope
Georges Cuvier
Francis Day - India ...
Konrad Lorenz
... Altenberg.
Lorenz shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with two other important early ethologists, Niko Tinbergen and Karl
von Frisch . The prize was awarded "for discoveries in individual and social behavior patterns".
Lorenz was also a friend and student of renowned ...
Max Delbr
... Berlin , Germany. His father was Hans Delbrck , a professor of history at the University of Berlin , his mother was the granddaughter of Justus
von Liebig .
Delbrck studied astrophysics , shifting towards theoretical physics , at the University of Gttingen . After receiving his Ph.D., he ...
Population dynamics
... model.
A more general model formulation was proposed by F.J. Richards in 1959 , by which the models of Gompertz, Verhulst and also Ludwig
von Bertalanffy are covered as special cases of the general formulation.
The computer game SimCity tries to simulate some of these population ...
Blood type
... the bacteria will react to ABO-incompatible blood cells.
Apart from on red blood cells, the ABO antigen is also expressed on the glycoprotein
von Willebrand factor (vWF), which participates in hemostasis (control of bleeding). In fact, blood type O predisposes very slightly to bleeding, as ...
Species
... in 1866 , its significance was not recognized. It was not until 1900 that his work was rediscovered by Hugo de Vries , Carl Correns and Erich
von Tschermak , who realised that the "inheritable traits" in Darwin's theory are genes .
The theory of the evolution of species through natural ...