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22 equal temperament

Contemporary advocates of 22 equal temperament include music theorist Paul Erlich.

Anthony Burke

Anthony Burke, Australian international relations scholar and political theorist

Augustyn Wróblewski

Augustyn Wroblewski, of Ślepowron coat of arms (born 20 July 1866 in Vilnius, died after 1913) - Polish chemist and biochemist, author of the groundbreaking work in the field of yeast fermentation, theorist and proponent of anarchism, an activist in socialist organizations, journalist, lecturer at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow.

Bharat Gupt

Bharat Gupt, A retired Associate Professor in English, who taught at the College of Vocational Studies of the University of Delhi, is an Indian classicist, theatre theorist, sitar and surbahar player, musicologist, cultural analyst, and newspaper columnist.

Brockhoff

Klaus Brockhoff (born 1939), German economist and organizational theorist

Călin

Călin Dan (born 1955), Romanian artist, theorist and curator

Carl Friedrich Weitzmann

His most lasting contribution to music theory (researched by contemporary American theorist Richard Cohn) concerns chord relations.

Constitutional dictatorship

In the 21st century, John Yoo, attorney and legal theorist, has offered a theory of the unitary executive supporting virtually unconstrained authority to be wielded by the United States President in his capacity as commander in chief of the armed forces.

David Galenson

Comics theorist Scott McCloud seems to have anticipated some aspects of Galenson's theory in his 1993 book Understanding Comics.

David Hawk

David L. Hawk (born 1948), American management theorist, architect and systems scientist

Derrick Lehmer

Derrick Norman Lehmer (1867-1938), American mathematician and number theorist

Eugène Dupréel

Leader of the "École de Bruxelles", he had a major influence on the argumentation theorist Chaïm Perelman and thus has been instrumental in the renewal of rhetoric.

Finck

Hermann Finck (1527 – 1558), German composer, music theorist and organist of the Renaissance, great-nephew of Heinrich Finck

Gary A. Olson

In 1991, Olson began conducting scholarly interviews of internationally prominent intellectuals including anthropologist Clifford Geertz, linguist Noam Chomsky, deconstructionist Jacques Derrida, postmodern theorist Jean-François Lyotard, philosopher of science Sandra Harding, theorist and cultural critic Donna Haraway, political philosopher Ernesto Laclau, and feminist theorist bell hooks.

Gene Smith

Gene Ward Smith (born 1947), mathematician, composer and music theorist

George Cole

G. D. H. Cole (1889–1959), English political theorist, economist, and historian

Guderian

Heinz Guderian, (17 June 1888–14 May 1954) a military theorist and innovative General of the German Army during the Second World War.

Hazony

Yoram Hazony (born 1964), Israeli philosopher and political theorist

Herbert M. Woolf

Woolf is also a cousin of British political theorist and husband of Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf

Ian Pedigo

He studied art at the University of Texas at Austin with a focus on installation and sculpture, as well as in 2001 at the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Art, under the instructors Ilya Kabakov & Emilia Kabakov and the theorist/critic Boris Groys.

Institute for Research in Art and Technology

The Institute for Research in Art and Technology (IRAT) was founded in London in 1969 by arts theorist John Lifton as an offshoot of the London New Arts Lab, itself a breakaway from the original Arts Lab.

Jacket Full of Danger

The album's cover art is an illustrated photograph by American artist Galen Pehrson and was featured in ArtForum 10.6Vol-9UK The image depicts Green with a suite of illustrated characters, each character refers or symbolizes a social theorist, philosopher, or semiotician: Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Louis Althusser, and most notable Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan engaged in a "dance".

Jakov Berman

Jakov Alexandrovich Berman (1868-1933) was a Russian philosopher and political theorist linked to Russian machism and Pragmatism.

Jeremy Shapiro

::For the social theorist of the same name see Jeremy J. Shapiro.

Jouissance

The Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek, a known Lacanian theorist, has adopted the term in his philosophy; it may also be seen in the works, both joint and individual, of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, and it plays an important role in the writing of Julia Kristeva and Roland Barthes.

Karl Pribram

Karl H. Pribram (born 1919), Austrian-born neurosurgeon and theorist of cognition

Lasser

Philip Lasser (born 1963), US-American composer, pianist, and music theorist

Ludonarrative

Video game theorist Tom Bissell, in his book Extra Lives (2010), notes the example of Call of Duty 4, where a player can all but kill their digital partner during gameplay without upsetting the built in narrative of the game.

New Zealand Liberal Party

William Pember Reeves, a Liberal Party politician and theorist, said that while the party supported an active role for the state, particularly in social matters, it did not in any way seek to discourage or inhibit private enterprise.

Olaf Rose

His dissertation, which was financially supported by the Clausewitz Society, explored the influence of Carl von Clausewitz as a military theorist in Russia and the Soviet Union.

Open Christmas Letter

At least one of the signers was an American: Florence Edgar Hobson was the New York-born wife of English Liberal social theorist and economist John A. Hobson.

Otto Brendel

While at Heidelberg, Brendel studied with the leading minds of his day: Franz Boll (1867-1924), Alfred von Domaszewski (1856-1927), Friedrich Karl von Duhn (1851-1930), Richard Carl Meister (1848-1912), and Eugen Täubler (1879-1953); the literary theorist Ernst Robert Curtius (1886-1956), Friedrich Gundolf (1880-1931), Karl Jaspers (1883-1969), the classical art historians Karl Lehmann and Friedrich Zimmer.

Palazzo Bembo

Palazzo Bembo is the birthplace of Pietro Bembo (1470–1547), a Venetian scholar, poet, literary theorist, and cardinal.

Penn Yan, New York

David Bordwell, prominent American film theorist, film critic, and author, grew up on a farm near Penn Yan.

Peter Graham

Peter Benjamin Graham (1925–1987) Australian visual artist and art theorist

Reginald Hobhouse

His daughter Emily was an early welfare campaigner and his son Leonard was a liberal political theorist and sociologist.

Robert Lang

Robert J. Lang (born 1961), American origami theorist and physicist

Sam Green

Green’s most recent project is a live documentary entitled The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller, about theorist and designer Buckminster Fuller, which features a live soundtrack by the band Yo La Tengo.

Scharnhorst Order

The medal is named after Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst, a Prussian soldier, military theorist, reformer and German patriot.

Sébastien Basson

He was an early theorist of a matter theory based both on atoms and compounds.

Skolnick

Sherman Skolnick (1930 – 2006), political activist and conspiracy theorist

Sooni Taraporevala

The book received glowing advance praise from film director Mira Nair, Harvard literature professor and noted post-colonial theorist Homi K. Bhabha, acclaimed writers Rohinton Mistry and Bapsi Sidhwa and conductor Zubin Mehta.

Tamsin Wilton

Tamsin Elizabeth Wilton (1952 – April 30, 2006) was an English academic, a lesbian activist, theorist, social researcher, writer and cartoonist, and professor of Human Sexuality in the School of Social Science at the University of the West of England.

Tiger Man

Stanley Tigerman (born 1930), an American architect, theorist and designer

Twin Cities Wire

Some of the interviewees included musicians Chuck D and Will Oldham (AKA Bonnie “Prince” Billy), perennial St. Paul muckraker and political candidate Bill Dahn, and conspiracy theorist Jaye Beldo.

Verlinde

Herman Verlinde (born 1962), Dutch theoretical physicist and string theorist.

Yao's Millionaires' Problem

Yao's Millionaires' problem is a secure multiparty communication problem which was introduced by Andrew Yao, a prominent computer scientist and computational theorist.

Yockey

Francis Parker Yockey (1917–1960), American esoteric philosopher and political theorist


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