Sentence examples for basis for the science from inspiring English sources

James Prescott Joule also claimed that there was a relationship between mechanical motion and heat, and his idea became the basis for the science of thermodynamics.

Their Traité de Teratologie (1836), which laid the basis for the science of teratology, still remains a valuable source of information.

In essence, the historic flow of fluid created reservoirs, and the modification of this flow by exploitation is the basis for the science of geothermal reservoir engineering.

The results were threefold: the collection enjoyed wide distribution in Germany and eventually in all parts of the globe (there are now translations in 70 languages); it became and remains a model for the collecting of folktales everywhere; and the Grimms' notes to the tales, along with other investigations, formed the basis for the science of the folk narrative and even of folklore.

Although Mendel's work passed unnoticed for decades, it became the basis for the science of genetics.

Ergonomics criteria, while serving as the basis for this science, cannot be applied blindly for they do not ensure comfortable automobile seats.

When Dutch biologist Niko Tinbergen published a slim volume entitled simply The Herring Gull's World in 1950, he can hardly have imagined that this would become the basis for the new science of ethology – the study of animal behaviour.

Whether the implementation of section 252 of the Floyd D. Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (as enacted into law by Public Law 106 398; 114 Stat. 1654A 46 [set out as a note below]) is effective to identify the basis for the appropriate science and technology program funding level and investment portfolio.

According to the prosecutors, Hwang and the team apparently believed the "Number 1" stem cell line that formed the basis for the 2004 Science paper was truly derived from a cloned blastocyst.

Among those who were forced into early retirement was Matthew Fontaine Maury, too crippled to go to sea, but whose study of ocean currents formed the basis for the new science of oceanography.

Built as a Marine Laboratory and summer home for Swiss-born copper-mining tycoon, Alexander Agassiz, whose studies formed the basis for the modern science of Marine Biology, Castle Hill Inn encompasses both Agassiz's chalet-like house, his own lighthouse, and newly built beach cottages.