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Thorson's rule

Thorson's rule (named after Gunnar Thorson by S. A. Mileikovsky in 1971)


4n + 2

Hückel's rule in organic chemistry, also known as the 4n + 2 rule

Allen's rule

Behavior (e.g., gathering insulation when it is cold, moving into shade when it is hot)

Behind the Candelabra

Behind the Candelabra is a 2013 American drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh about the last ten years in the life of pianist Liberace and the secret affair he had with the younger Scott Thorson, based on Thorson’s memoir, Behind the Candelabra: My Life with Liberace (1988).

Behind the Candelabra: My Life with Liberace

Scott Thorson recounts his relationship with pianist and musician Liberace.

Carl von Liebermeister

"Liebermeister's rule" states that in adult febrile tachycardia, pulse-beats increase at a rate of approximately eight beats per minute to each degree Celsius.

Charles Matthews

Race Mathews (Charles Race Thorson Mathews, born 1935), Australian politician

Deep-sea gigantism

In the case of marine crustaceans, it has been proposed that the increase in size with depth occurs for the same reasons as the increase in size with latitude (Bergmann's rule): both trends involve increasing size with decreasing temperature.

Emery's Rule

In 1909, the entomologist Carlo Emery noted that social parasites among insects (e.g., cleptoparasites) tend to be parasites of species or genera to which they are closely related.

Epipompilus insularis

This pattern appears to be an example of Allen's rule and is seen in other New Zealand Pompilids but is less marked in E. insularis due to its greater extent of sexual dimorphism with the males always being more uniformly dark.

Gloger's rule

It was named after the zoologist Constantin Wilhelm Lambert Gloger, who first remarked upon this phenomenon in 1833 in a review of covariation of climate and avian plumage color.

However absorption of a certain amount of UV radiation is necessary for the production of certain vitamins, notably vitamin D (see also Osteomalacia).

Hückel

Hückel's rule, a method of determining aromaticity in organic molecules

Humans as Gods

Snegov's career in literature was a hard one: being subjected to repression during Stalin's rule, he remained under informal suspicion in later life.

Island effect

Foster's rule, also known as the Island rule or the Island effect, where island populations of animals change in size

John F. Thorson

On that day, in Dagami, Leyte province, in the Philippines, Thorson was wounded while single-handedly attacking an enemy trench, then smothered the blast of an enemy-thrown hand grenade with his body.

Linda Thorson

Thorson is best known for her role as Tara King (succeeding Diana Rigg as Emma Peel) in the last season of the British TV adventure series, The Avengers, with the original star Patrick Macnee.

Thorson is also currently producing a new stage play called The Goodbye Bird written by Colleen Murphy.

Matthiessen

Augustus Matthiessen (1831-1870), British physicist and chemist, notable for Matthiessen's rule.

Microstigmus

Kin selection based on Hamiliton’s Rule provides an explanation to the population genetics framework and specifies the patterns of local and family genetic makeup that results in the most favorable outcome.

Non-Kekulé molecule

According to Hund's rule, each orbital is filled with one electron with parallel spin, avoiding the Coulomb repulsion by filling one orbital with two electrons.

Rowland Hall-St. Mark's School

Nine Rowmark athletes have been named to the U.S. Ski Team including Erik Fisher, Nick Baker, Roger Brown, Keely Kelleher, Courtney Hammond, Kiley Staples, Jennifer VanWagner, Tague Thorson, Alice McKennis.

Simpson's rule

It is widely used, for example, by naval architects to numerically integrate hull offsets and cross-sectional areas to determine volumes and centroids of ships or lifeboats.


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