Yerkes
['jə:ki:z]
Definition
(noun.) United States psychologist who studied the intelligence of primates (1876-1956).
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Examples
- The Yerkes telescope, which was exhibited at the World’s Fair Exposition in 1893, at Chicago, had an object glass of 3. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The Grand Equatorial of Gruenewald, at the recent Berlin Exposition, was even still larger, since its object glass was 3 feet 7 inches, or nearly 2 inches larger than the Yerkes. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The Yerkes telescope at Williams Bay, Wisconsin, has a refractor of forty inches, and the one built for the Paris Exposition of 1900, one of fifty inches. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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