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Emphasized the importance of medium, and coined terms like "global village" and "the medium is the message" [211] Political science: Aristotle Niccolò Machiavelli* Thomas Hobbes** Aristotle is called the father of political science largely because of his work entitled Politics. This treatise is divided into eight books, and deals with subjects ...
The history of biology traces the study of the living world from ancient to modern times. Although the concept of biology as a single coherent field arose in the 19th century, the biological sciences emerged from traditions of medicine and natural history reaching back to Ayurveda, ancient Egyptian medicine and the works of Aristotle, Theophrastus and Galen in the ancient Greco-Roman world.
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744–1829), French evolutionist, [205] coined many terms like biology and fossils; Aylmer Bourke Lambert (1761–1842), British botanist, [206] author of A description of the genus Pinus; Charles Lamberton (1876–1960), French paleontologist who specialized in the recently extinct subfossil lemurs
1802 – The term biology in its modern sense was propounded independently by Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus (Biologie oder Philosophie der lebenden Natur) and Lamarck (Hydrogéologie). The word was coined in 1800 by Karl Friedrich Burdach.
In terms of its molecular structure, water is a small polar molecule with a bent shape formed by the polar covalent bonds of two hydrogen (H) atoms to one oxygen (O) atom (H 2 O). [33] Because the O–H bonds are polar, the oxygen atom has a slight negative charge and the two hydrogen atoms have a slight positive charge. [ 33 ]
Jerome Vinograd (1913–1976), US, leader in biochemistry and molecular biology of nucleic acids; Peter Visscher (Ph.D. 1991), Dutch Australian geneticist who works on the genetic architecture of complex traits; Friedrich Vogel (1925–2006), German, leader in human genetics, coined term "pharmacogenetics"
1958 – The term bionics is coined by Jack E. Steele. 1964 – The first commercial myoelectric arm is developed by the Central Prosthetic Research Institute of the USSR and distributed by the Hangar Limb Factory of the UK. 1972 – The DNA composition of chimpanzees and gorillas is discovered to be 99% similar to that of humans.
The term "ecosystem" was first used in 1935 in a publication by British ecologist Arthur Tansley. The term was coined by Arthur Roy Clapham, who came up with the word at Tansley's request. [6] Tansley devised the concept to draw attention to the importance of transfers of materials between organisms and their environment.