Sentence examples for a successful theory from inspiring English sources
With the Danish physicist Niels Bohr's quantum theory of the hydrogen atom (1913) began an understanding of the basis of Balmer's formula; thenceforward spectroscopic evidence underpinned successive developments toward what is now a successful theory of atomic structure.
A successful theory called quantum electro-dynamics had been developed, which explained how particles of light and matter interacted.
The Danish physicist Niels Bohr pioneered the use of the quantum hypothesis in developing a successful theory of atomic structure.
I don't think you can develop a successful theory about this race unless you assume that voters are changing their minds — a lot.
The study of the emission and absorption spectra of atoms was crucial to the development of a successful theory of atomic structure.
Philosophical pragmatists and empiricists, for example, hold that while a successful theory should describe experiments as accurately as possible, it has no necessary relation to ultimate reality, partly because one can never say whether new experiments will give new results and force changes in the theory.
As a result, the "insistence in the Platonic culture on disinterested intellectual appreciation is a psychological error" (1929a, 73), an observation that Philip Jourdain concludes is "of the first importance" (1918, 244) for any successful theory of education.
In 2011 we had a very successful theory - the Standard Model again - which firmly predicted a Higgs boson would show up at some point.
Though the mathematical complexities of QED are formidable, it is a highly successful theory that has now withstood decades of precise experimental tests.
The Georgetown sociolinguist Ralph Fasold once observed about his discipline — which includes the ethnography of communication — that "a really successful theory will eventually lead to surprises, and I am not sure we have yet been really surprised".
Albert Einstein provided physicists with a spectacularly successful theory of spacetime on very large, astronomical scales.
