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Max Planck
Max Planck , 1858-1947, German physicist. Seeking to explain the experimental spectrum (distribution of electromagnetic energy according to wavelength) of black body radiation, he introduced the hypothesis (1900) that oscillating atoms absorb and emit energy only in discrete bundles (called quan... Read more
William Prout
William Prout 1785-1850, English chemist and physician. Prout's hypothesis, advanced in 1815-16, suggested that atomic weights of elements are multiples of that of hydrogen and that elements are formed by a condensation or grouping of hydrogen atoms. Later work on the determination of atomic weight... Read more
Bene Israel
Bene Israel or Beni Israel [Heb.,=sons of Israel], Jewish community of India, living mostly in and near Mumbai (formerly Bombay). Many thousands of others have settled in Israel since 1948. According to their own legend, they are descended from Jews who fled persecutions in Palestine in the 2d ... Read more
Eve
Eve in genetics, popular term for a theoretical female ancestor of all living people, also known as mitochondrial Eve. In 1987 biochemist Allan C. Wilson proposed that all living human beings had inherited mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from a single woman. Using statistical and computer analysis of mtD... Read more
mountain
mountain high land mass projecting conspicuously above its surroundings and usually of limited width at its summit. Although isolated mountains are not unusual, mountains commonly form ranges, comprising either a single complex ridge or a series of related ridges. A group of ranges closely related ... Read more
Amedeo Avogadro, conte di Quaregna
Amedeo Avogadro, conte di Quaregna , 1776-1856, Italian physicist, b. Turin. He became professor of physics at the Univ. of Turin in 1820. In 1811 he advanced the hypothesis, since known as Avogadro's law, that equal volumes of gases under identical conditions of pressure and temperature contain the... Read more
Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin
Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin 1843-1928, American geologist, b. Mattoon, Ill., grad. Beloit College, 1866. He was professor of geology at Beloit (1873-82), president of the Univ. of Wisconsin (1887-92), and professor of geology and director of the Walker Museum at the Univ. of Chicago (1892-1919). Cha... Read more
Kenites
Kenites , in the Bible, wilderness nomadic tribe friendly to the Hebrews. They came with the Hebrews and inhabited S Palestine up to the time of David. Moses' father-in-law was a Kenite, and so was the husband of Jael. Scholars have argued that the Israelites were introduced to the worship of God by... Read more
Howard Martin Temin
Howard Martin Temin 1934-94, American virologist, b. Philadelphia, Ph.D. California Institute of Technology, 1959. A professor at the Univ. of Wisconsin in Madison, Temin began his cancer research while still a student, working with his professor Renato Dulbecco and fellow student David Baltimor... Read more
Julius Wellhausen
Julius Wellhausen , 1844-1918, leading German biblical scholar of the 19th cent. He is recognized for his documentary hypothesis that sought to account for both the composition of the Pentateuch (Genesis-Deuteronomy) and for the evolution and history of Judaism. His Prolegomena to the History of Is... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "just world hypothesis"

Hypothesis and Hypothesis Testing
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...against the observed world. In their adoption...scientific method. Hypotheses are the central...expectations. A hypothesis is a concise...research questions (just as it says nothing...question (the hypothesis) that can be tested...observations (hypothesis testing). There...x2014; and ...
Slavery Hypertension Hypothesis
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...Slavery Hypertension Hypothesis Early in the twentieth...a surfeit of ad hoc hypotheses about hypertension...of these “ just so ” stories...slavery hypertension hypothesis, ” an evolutionary...hypertension risk in New World blacks to natural selection...the kidneys. As ...
Gaia Hypothesis
Encyclopedia entry from: UXL Encyclopedia of Science Gaia hypothesis The Gaia (pronounced...make up the living world) acts as a single...pulled the living world together out of chaos...have an atmosphere just like that of Earth...and that it was a world with hardly any life...
Mechanism
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...1) The sensible world, or the system of objects...of bodies possessing just a few, chiefly geometrical...was reduction. From hypotheses concerning the underlying...senses except en masse, hypotheses about their configuration...Often, mechanical hypotheses were adaptations of...
Singer, Hans
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...the Prebisch-Singer hypothesis. He got the idea while...DCs) — not just with the relationships...twenty-first century world with increasing trade...regarding the then future world economic system tabled...sake of stability of the world economy. Like Keynes...
Physics, Quantum
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion ...really saying about the world. In fact, it is not...of what the physical world is like. Quantum theory...proposed in 1900 the hypothesis that the energy absorbed...felt satisfied with this hypothesis as more than a localized...lower orbit, it releases just the amount of energy...
Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...work in statistics was hypothesis testing. Many experiments...situation the null hypothesis, which the experiment...himself that the null hypothesis is untenable, the experimentalist...area. He discovered just how the frequency of...Newman, ed., The World of Mathematics (4 vols...
Standard Cross-Cultural Sample
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...into 200 distinctive world cultural provinces...fruitlessness of testing hypotheses that involved variables...Boasian school, had just completed the first...of multiple competing hypotheses (Chamberlain 1897...multivariate and competing hypotheses and sufficiently small...
God of the Gaps
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion ...intervention in the physical world to fill in the "gaps...God as an explanatory hypothesis on the level of efficient...Weizsacker's The World-view of Physics that...explanation. God and the God hypothesis would be edged out, just as the astronomer Marquis...
Sir John Carew Eccles
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...generally proposed a hypothesis, made it as precise...of failure if a pet hypothesis has to be abandoned...cell junctions. During World War II he aided in the...actually disproved his own hypothesis about the electrical...encouraged him to do just that. These findings...

Dictionary entries related to "just world hypothesis"

Pseudoscience
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...claims about the world and give explanations...that support a hypothesis or theory. Testing...always alternative hypotheses that can account...and thus can be just as well confirmed...scientists formulate hypotheses and then test them...the basis of the hypotheses and checking ...
Lewis, Thomas
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...craving and veneration for hypothesis, which besets the minds...paucity of its recorded hypothesis. Hypothesis is the heart which no...x2019; s help in 1909. World War I interrupted these studies in 1914, just after Lewis ’...
Critical Race Theory
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...eyes of the rest of the world and also to avert the...the United States had just concluded a world war...the uncommitted Third World (much of which was black...served this nation for the world to see front page stories...Although his skeptical hypothesis was met at first with...
Chambers, Robert
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...is that the organic world is controlled by the law of development, just as the inorganic is...discussion of the nebular hypothesis, which by the mid...having the organic world develop from humble...the entire organic world. Chambe
"Unconscious, The"
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...unconscious encompasses more than just repressed material, which...Freud goes on to justify the hypothesis of the unconscious —...part 2, taking it that the hypothesis of the unconscious has been...without reference to the external world" (p. 179n). This clearly...
Totems
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...ceremonials to allay the totem's just anger, or secure his continued...appeared to lend credence to his hypothesis. Spencer and Gillen described...also contradicted McLennan's hypothesis that totems were associated...of totemism throughout the world. Frazer rejected MacLennan...
"Claims of Psychoanalysis to Scientific Interest"
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...Bertrand Russell. "I have just had to do an unwanted job...unknown reasons, although World War I no doubt had a large...that is no longer a mystical hypothesis, and the new implications...civilizations and religions. The new hypothesis was that "the principle function...
Luke, gospel of
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible ...However, the proto-Luke hypothesis has not won favour...have doubts about the Q hypothesis suggest that Luke used...centre of the Gentile world (Rome), of which...applicable to the whole Roman world, just as in 10: 1 Jesus sends...
Need for Causality
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...the basis of one overriding hypothesis, which, accordingly, leaves...ordinarily holds good for the real world, people prefer to be satisfied...and to know what causes the world to be as it is, necessitates...itself as a being that is not just the reduplication of what preceded...
Weltanschauung
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...literally, "view of the world," had a very specific...basis of one overriding hypothesis, which, accordingly...religious view of the world is to thought, which...of societies that was just as materialist as Marx...on the real external world, mainly negative traits...

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Hypotheses here to stay.(Letters)
Magazine article from: Science and Children; 4/1/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...understanding of the world around us. However...does not begin with hypotheses, it begins with observations...process, we then state hypotheses about the patterns...supports or rejects our hypothesis, we can begin to build...under investigation. Hypotheses take on additional...to stay. Now, ...
Reply: hypotheticals and hypotheses. (response to Jim Mintz and Wilfrid Dixon in this issue, p. 117)
Magazine article from: The American Statistician; 5/1/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...about a "possible world." Clark Glymour...to a limit." By a hypothesis we mean a claim, perhaps...observations. In this sense a hypothesis is what Sir Karl Popper...Hypotheticals and hypotheses may be true or false...alternative sentence is a hypothesis. The hypothetical...above concerns, ...
Using the permanent income hypothesis for forecasting.
Magazine article from: Economic Quarterly; 1/1/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...consumption and income just mentioned underlie a...U.S. News & World Report, David Hage...1957) permanent income hypothesis. This hypothesis implies that households...the permanent income hypothesis, a decline in savings...
Hypothesis: Science is just not fair
Newspaper article from: Columbia Daily Tribune; 2/11/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...and shout, `I just remembered the science...parts: (1) The Hypothesis, (2) The Part That Goes After The Hypothesis and (3) The Conclusion...exhibit in the Amazing World Of Curds." Depending...exploring the amazing world of science, without...
The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul.
Magazine article from: National Review; 6/27/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...first the naturalistic world view of Francis Crick. The Astonishing Hypothesis, he says, "is about...see something." And just what is "The Astonishing Hypothesis" to which the title...agreement among the world's religions that...
Who really discovered America? The Solutrean hypothesis is the latest in a long line of theories about the discovery of the New World.
Magazine article from: Skeptic (Altadena, CA); 9/22/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...spokesperson for the "Solutrean hypothesis," a theory that claims...to arrive in the New World came from prehistoric...look at the Solutrean hypothesis shows that the idea does...cultural homogenization or just a sharing of a useful...first to inhabit the New World and that America's...
Be your best friend if you'll be mine: Penn's Alliance Hypothesis for Human Friendship.(Report)
Newspaper article from: NewsRx Health & Science; 6/21/2009; 700+ words ; ...theory called the Alliance Hypothesis for Human Friendship...them and do not give just to get something back...said. "We live in a world where conflict can arise...beforehand. This new hypothesis takes into account how...understand the social world not only from their own...
'Hypothesis' fails to prove God is unreal
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 3/4/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...intrude on each others' worlds. In between there is...reject the validity of just about everything we...s God, the Failed Hypothesis attempts to consider...will be formulated as a hypothesis and the consequences...Science GOD, The Failed Hypothesis How Science Shows That...
The genomic tag hypothesis: modern viruses as molecular fossils of ancient strategies for genomic replication, and clues regarding the origin of protein synthesis.(Evolution: A Molecular Point of View)
Magazine article from: The Biological Bulletin; 6/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...conclusions could be drawn from just two examples, but many...replication in the RNA world before the advent of...simple "genomic tag hypothesis" then enabled us to...RNA genomes in an RNA world gave rise first to retroelements...genomic tag hypothesis has just this kind of ...
Profile: Researchers develop hypothesis of a possible genetic switch that determines when a woman will get breast cancer
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered; 12/29/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...Researchers develop hypothesis of a possible genetic...potential to turn the cancer world on its head. The authors...for Cancer Research just outside London, was...UCLA, Peto proposed a hypothesis. It argues that there...Easton says Peto's hypothesis is intriguing. University...