Sentences with phrase «century pioneered the study»

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Historically, he contends that a truly scientific study of religion first emerged, with great intellectual promise, in the closing years of the 19th century It was shaped by pioneering figures like F. Max Muller in England, C. P. Tiele and P. D. Chantepie de la Saussaye in the Netherlands, and Morris Jastrow in the United States.

Although studied for centuries through small ground - based telescopes, the Spot only received its first close - ups in the latter half of the 20th century through a progressive series of close encounters with NASA's Pioneer, Voyager and Galileo spacecraft — as well as through detailed remote monitoring by the Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories.

Hermann Ebbinghaus, the German psychologist responsible for pioneering the study of memory, first described the learning curve in the late 19th century.

[5][6][7] While J. M. W. Turner (1775 — 1851), one of the greatest landscape painters of the 19th century, was a member of the Romantic movement, as «a pioneer in the study of light, colour, and atmosphere», he «anticipated the French Impressionists» and therefore modernism «in breaking down conventional formulas of representation; [though] unlike them, he believed that his works should always express significant historical, mythological, literary, or other narrative themes.»

«Harking to the pioneering social study done here in the early 20th century, this «Pittsburgh Survey» will define what «international» means in the art world on a local level today.»

With works — all from Walther's holdings — ranging from motion studies by pioneering 19th - century photographer Eadweard Muybridge to documentation of a 1996 performance by Chinese artist Song Dong, and from Richard Avedon's 1970s portraits of the American political establishment to anonymous mug shots, the show examined how we represent ourselves and are in turn represented.

She studied with the influential German émigré abstract artist Hans Hofmann, was included in pioneering group exhibitions of abstract art at Peggy Guggenheim's Art of This Century gallery, the Art Institute of Chicago and elsewhere and showed with the powerful Betty Parsons Gallery.

Mike's work, like that of previous award winners, is diverse, and includes pioneering and highly cited work in time series analysis (an elegant use of Thomson's multitaper spectral analysis approach to detect spatiotemporal oscillations in the climate record and methods for smoothing temporal data), decadal climate variability (the term «Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation» or «AMO» was coined by Mike in an interview with Science's Richard Kerr about a paper he had published with Tom Delworth of GFDL showing evidence in both climate model simulations and observational data for a 50 - 70 year oscillation in the climate system; significantly Mike also published work with Kerry Emanuel in 2006 showing that the AMO concept has been overstated as regards its role in 20th century tropical Atlantic SST changes, a finding recently reaffirmed by a study published in Nature), in showing how changes in radiative forcing from volcanoes can affect ENSO, in examining the role of solar variations in explaining the pattern of the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measurements).

The Finnish ornithologist Johannes Leche is widely credited with undertaking the first proper study of the migratory patterns of birds, with his pioneering work in the mid-18th century based largely upon the technique of ringing individual animals.