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Adrien Ries

He was also responsible for coining the idea of 'Nordstad', a unified urban area in northern Luxembourg to decentralise economic activity from Luxembourg City and the Red Lands.

Angus MacPhail

Ivor Montagu, who worked with Hitchcock on several of his British films, attributes the coining of the term to MacPhail.

Edward A. Murphy, Jr.

It was while here that he became involved in the high-speed rocket sled experiments (USAF project MX981, 1949) which led to the coining of Murphy's law.

Elisabeth Vrba

She is well known for developing the Turnover Pulse Hypothesis, as well as coining the word exaptation with colleague Stephen Jay Gould.

Feminazi

In his 1992 book The Way Things Ought to Be, Limbaugh credited his friend Tom Hazlett, professor of economics at the University of California at Davis, with coining the term.

Fourth Estate

In Burke's 1787 coining he would have been making reference to the traditional three estates of Parliament: The Lords Spiritual, the Lords Temporal and the Commons.

Gail Martin

Gail R. Martin, American biologist attributed with coining the term "embryonic stem cell"

Ghost band

Gene Lees, Woody Herman's biographer, and several other sources attribute the coining of the phrase to Woody Herman, who used it to refer to successors of dance bands from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s.

Global network

The Canadian sociologist Marshall McLuhan was the first to forecast the huge impact of the matrix of global networks upon society, coining the term global village.

Gunhild of Wenden

J. Steenstrup suggests that Canute's sister may have been named after her mother, hence coining (the now generally agreed upon) hypothesis, that her Old Polish name is Świętosława, but only as a reconstruction based on a single mention of her daughter's name and the hypothesis that she named her daughter after herself.

Humphry Osmond

Osmond began a line of research into what he called "socio-architecture" to improve patient settings, coining the terms "sociofugal" and "sociopetal", starting Robert Sommer's career, and contributing to environmental psychology.

Johann Karl Simon Morgenstern

In William Goldman's novel The Princess Bride the fictional author S. Morgenstern is almost certainly a nod to Morgenstern's coining of the term Bildungsroman, as the novel is representative of the genre.

Joseph Horowitz

He is also credited (as by Alex Ross in The New Yorker) with coining the phrase “post-classical music” to describe an emerging 21st century musical landscape merging classical music with popular and non-Western genres.

Leading Edge Forum

Index Group, originally founded by Thomas P. Gerrity and others from MIT was perhaps best known for coining the term business re-engineering popularized by the book by James Champy and Michael Hammer, Re-engineering the Corporation

Martin Esslin

Martin Julius Esslin OBE (6 June 1918 – 24 February 2002) was a Hungarian-born English producer and playwright dramatist, journalist, adaptor and translator, critic, academic scholar and professor of drama best known for coining the term "Theatre of the Absurd" in his work of that name (1961).

Mirko Tobias Schäfer

Coining the term of an extended culture industry he builds upon the cultural critique of the Frankfurt School, most notably Adorno and Horkheimer.

Morab

Newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst was an avid Morab breeder, and is credited with the creation of the breed name by coining the term, "Morab", as a combination of the names of the parent breeds.

Otto I, Count of Savoy

The archbishop of Vienne, Léger, who had sole right of minting in the region, complained to Pope Leo IX, so Otto forbade further coining at Aiguebelle.

Salvador Tió

Salvador Tió y Montes De Oca (November 15, 1911-September 17, 1989) was a Puerto Rican poet, writer, and promoter of Puerto Rican culture, best known for coining the term "Spanglish".

Techno Twins

In the 1990s, Mixmag magazine credited the Techno Twins with coining the phrase 'techno' and starting the techno music revolution.

Thatcher Keats

In a class at New York's International Center of Photography, Keats explores a new genre, coining the phrase "The Invasion Of Privacy Photographers" citing himself, Clark, Tress, Solomon, Nan Goldin, Ryan McGinley.

The Poor Man's James Bond

The Poor Man's James Bond is a four book series originally intended for the survivalist-minded, compiled by former American Nazi Party member Kurt Saxon (credited with coining the term "survivalist").


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