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...ence and technology in Russia''' have developed rapidly since the [[Age of Enlightenment]], when [[Peter the Great]] founded the [[Russian Academy of Sciences]] and ...h centuries, [[Russia]] produced many notable [[List of Russian scientists|scientists]], making important contributions in [[physics]], [[astronomy]], [[mathemat ...

The history of the [[metric system]] began during the [[Age of Enlightenment]] with measures of [[length]] and [[weight]] derived from [[Natural environ == Age of Enlightenment == ...

...orate on this.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Schofield |first=Robert E. |title=The Enlightenment of Joseph Priestley: A Study of his Life and Work from 1733 to 1773 |year=1 ...aymond A. |last2=Jewett |first2=John W., Jr. |year=2014 |title=Physics for Scientists and Engineers |chapter=Some Physical Constants |at=Inside Cover |publisher= ...

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...urnal | vauthors = Stigler SM | title = Darwin, Galton and the Statistical Enlightenment | journal = Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A | volume = 1 The [[Human Genome Project]] has allowed scientists to directly [[genotyping|genotype]] the [[Nucleic acid sequence|sequence]] ...

...lestium]]}} in 1543. Increasingly accurate measurements were required, and scientists looked for measures that were universal and could be based on natural pheno ...olution|the traditional units of measure]]. As a base unit of length, many scientists had favoured the [[seconds pendulum]] (a pendulum with a half-period of one ...

...ly high proportion of [[List of pre-modern Iranian scientists and scholars|scientists]] who contributed to the Islamic Golden Age. According to [[Bernard Lewis]] ...]] in Berlin; whether its view of the [[pulmonary circulation]] influenced scientists such as [[Michael Servetus]] is unclear.<ref name=West /> ...

{{Cosmology|scientists}} ...announcement of Hawking radiation. At the time, he was one of the youngest scientists to become a Fellow.{{sfn|Larsen|2005|p=44}}{{sfn|White|Gribbin|2002|p=133}} ...

...llectual origins of materials science stem from the [[Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]], when researchers began to use analytical thinking from [[chemistry]], [[ Materials scientists emphasize understanding, how the history of a material (''processing'') inf ...

...he internet, mathematical economists and optimization experts and computer scientists have worked on problems of pricing for on-line services --- their contribut ...s why, if you consult [a reference in contemporary economics] looking for enlightenment about the world today, you will be led to technical economics, or history, ...

...ominance till the early twentieth century. Commitment to the ideals of the Enlightenment meant that they sought to assimilate newcomers from outside of the [[Britis ...way back in the mid-1980s that students often forget why they wanted to be scientists and engineers in the first place. Many bright students had an easy time in ...

* [[Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda]]. This was sent current material, especially for Soviet Leg ...ed [[philology|philologists]], [[jurist]]s, [[mathematician]]s and natural scientists with full command of one foreign language and some acquaintance with anothe ...