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51 matches to Quantum Theory
Kekulé, August. 1829-96. Benzene ring structure discovered in dream, 1865. Valence bond theory.
Kelvin, Lord. 1824-1907. British engineer/ mathematician. Absolute temperature scale. Thermodynamic theory.
Keynes, John Maynard. 1883-1946. British economist. General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money 1935. Demand is more a function of interest rates than of money supply. Bretton Woods.
Lemaître, Georges. 1894-1966. Belgian cosmologist. Big Bang theory of creation 1927.
Lévi-Strauss, Claude. 1908-. Belgian/French ethnologist. Theory of Symbolic Structures: Mythologiques 1964-8.
Lorentz, Hendrik. 1853-1928. Dutch physicist. Electromagnetic radiation theory, 1895.
Maxwell, James Clerk. 1831-79. Scottish physicist: theory of electromagnetic radiation, 1873.
Morgan, Thomas. 1866-1945. US embryologist. Chromosome theory. Drosophilia genetics, 1910.
Neumann, John von. 1903-57. Hungarian/US mathematician. Computer theory; serial process. Assisted H-bomb development. Minimax theorem 1928.Theory of Games 1944.
Ptolemy. c140. Alexandrian. First cartographer. Promoted Hipparchus’ geocentric theory of solar system. Copernicus. Columbus studied his Geography.
Reich, Wilhelm. 1897-1957. German/US psychiatrist. Theory of Orgone, a force which permeates the body and is released by orgasm.
Rutherford, Ernest. 1871-1937. NZ/English physicist. Beta rays 1899, Nuclear theory of atom1911.
Shannon, Claude. 1916-2001. US information theorist. Mathematical Theory of Communication 1948.
Social Credit. 1919. Douglas’ economic theory. Give money to consumers, producers based on social credits, “liberating” production from price system.
Social Darwinism. 19C theory that social man is subject to the “survival of the fittest”.
Soddy, Frederick. 1877-1956. English chemist. Isotope theory.
Stahl, Georg. 1660-1734. German chemist. Animalism-soul controls bodily functions. Theory of Combustion 1702.
Trotskyists. 1965-75. Revolutionary radical-left syndicalist movements propounding Trotsky’s theory of permanent revolution.
Veblen, Thorstein. 1857-1929. US sociologist. Theory of the Leisure Class 1899-“conspicuous consumption”.
Viète, François. 1540-1603. French mathematician, algebraic notation. Equation theory.
Vitalism. Bergson’s theory of evolution. Life force differentiates living things from others. Aristotle.
Vries, Hugo de. 1848-1935. Dutch botanist. Heredity and mutation. Mutation Theory 1910.
Wallace, Alfred. 1823-1913. British naturalist. Theory of natural selection, 1838, independent of Darwin.
Wegener, Alfred. 1880-1930. Theory of Continental Drift 1910.
Weismann, August. 1834-1914. German. Germ-plasm theory of heredity.