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  2. List of superseded scientific theories - Wikipedia

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    Phrenology – a theory of highly localised brain function popular in 19th century medicine. Homeopathy – a theory according to which a disease can be cured by infinitesimal doses of the substance that caused it; Eclectic medicine – transformed into alternative medicine, and is no longer considered a scientific theory

  3. Scientific theory - Wikipedia

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    Physics: atomic theory, Big Bang theory, Dynamo theory, perturbation theory, theory of relativity (successor to classical mechanics), quantum field theory; Earth science: Climate change theory (from climatology), [58] plate tectonics theory (from geology), theories of the origin of the Moon, theories for the Moon illusion

  4. Stephen Hawking - Wikipedia

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    Initially, Hawking radiation was controversial. By the late 1970s, and following the publication of further research, the discovery was widely accepted as a major breakthrough in theoretical physics. Hawking was the first to set out a theory of cosmology explained by a union of the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics.

  5. List of theoretical physicists - Wikipedia

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    List of scientists; List of physicists; Notes. Experimentalist also º Astronomer, astrophysicist or cosmologist also ^ Developed new mathematics

  6. Timeline of scientific discoveries - Wikipedia

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    1859: Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace: Theory of evolution by natural selection. 1861: Louis Pasteur: Germ theory. 1861: John Tyndall: Experiments in Radiant Energy that reinforced the Greenhouse effect. 1864: James Clerk Maxwell: Theory of electromagnetism. 1865: Gregor Mendel: Mendel's laws of inheritance, basis for genetics.

  7. Category:Scientific theories - Wikipedia

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    Scientific theories are distinguished from philosophical theories in that each of their theorems are statements about observable data, whereas a philosophical theory includes theorems which are ideas or principles.

  8. List of effects - Wikipedia

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    Brookings effect (atmospheric science) (Curry County, Oregon) (Oregon coast) (Oregon geography) (winds) Brown Willy effect (geography of Cornwall) (mesoscale meteorology) Bruce effect (reproduction) Bullwhip effect (distribution, retailing, and wholesaling) Butterfly effect (chaos theory) (physical phenomena) (stability theory)

  9. Edward Witten - Wikipedia

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    These versions are known as type I, type IIA, type IIB, and the two flavors of heterotic string theory (SO(32) and E 8 ×E 8). The thinking was that of these five candidate theories, only one was the actual correct theory of everything, and that theory was the one whose low-energy limit matched the physics observed in our world today. [30]