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Word: adriane (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...symposium on "Factors Determining Human Behavior," the question was treated from the physiological and psychological angle. Among the eminent thinkers who contributed their opinions to this discussion were Edgar Douglas Adrian, Charles Gustay Jung, Rudolf Carnap and Bronislaw Mallnowski, representing respectively the view-points of physiology, psychology, philosophy and anthropology...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Non-Technical Tercentenary Conference Formed Plan for Study of Human Society | 9/16/1936 | See Source »

...influence of the nervous system on our behavior was discussed in the opening address by Professor Adrian, who is a Fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge, was co-winner of the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1932, and established the important "all-or-none" law of nervous reaction. This law states that the intensity of sensation depends on a factor inherent in the nerve itself, and not on the strength of the stimulus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Non-Technical Tercentenary Conference Formed Plan for Study of Human Society | 9/16/1936 | See Source »

...Physicists Arthur Holly Compton and Robert Andrews Millikan, Physiologist Karl Landsteiner of the U. S.; Chemists Hans Fischer and Friedrich Bergius, Physiologist Hans Spemann, Biologist Otto Warburg of Germany: Physiologists Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins and Edgar Douglas Adrian of England: Centrifugist Theodor Svedberg of Sweden; Physiologist August Krogh of Denmark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Highbrows at Harvard | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

...Executive Committee well knew that the picture would offend their pious, Roman Catholic boss, tall, white-haired Dennis Francis Kelly, who was trusting his subordinates to keep things in order while he vacationed in California. Another shocker was the angry Ration Box and Crucifix, in which Artist Adrian Troy expressed his opinion of the state relief administration with two scatological words seldom seen in paint or print...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: No Jury | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

...Adrian College (Adrian, Mich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos Jun. 22, 1936 | 6/22/1936 | See Source »

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