He referred to the case as one of the crucial puzzles he needed to solve when trying to devise a theory of biological inheritance.
Unlike some of the more complicated efforts to devise a theory of everything, this one should either succeed relatively rapidly or fail spectacularly.
April 22, 1887 Copenhagen, Denmark January 22 , 1951Copenhagen, Denmark Harald August Bohr, (born April 22, 1887, Copenhagen, Den. died Jan . 22 1951, Copenhagen) Danish mathematician who devised a theory that concerned generalizations of functions with periodic properties, the theory of almost periodic functions.
In order to test the possibility of a universal morality, Kohlberg devised a theory for the development of moral reasoning based on stages that could be observed, or at least imagined, in humans.
In 1958 he and the American physicist Murray Gell-Mann devised a theory that accounted for most of the phenomena associated with the weak force, which is the force at work in radioactive decay.
He also devised a theory of harmony based on affinities with algebra and geometry, set forth in his Trattato di musica (1754; "Treatise on Music") and expanded into Dissertazione dei principi dell'armonia musicale (1767; "Dissertation on the Principles of Musical Harmony").
He devised a theory that had eluded the accountants and lawyers that Peter Kiewit — son of the founder and the chief shareholder — had previously consulted.
It might be said that we first ought to find out whether the boundary conditions are lawlike, and then devise a theory of law appropriate to the answer.
He had, after all, devised a theory of mountain uplift as well as its inverse, the formation of coral atolls, while on the Beagle.
However, the lessons of these experiments can be used to devise a theory of five principles needed for successful electricity market liberalization, providing policymakers and legislators with a crucial checklist to be consulted before designing such measures.
