Person
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Born
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Died
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Birthplace
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Personal details
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Word
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Year
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Notes
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Thomas Henry Huxley
|
May 4, 1825
|
June 29, 1895
|
Ealing
|
English biologist and anthropologist known as "Darwin's Bulldog"
|
abiogenesis
|
1870
|
Coinage
|
Julius Caesar
|
July 12, 100 BC
|
March 15, 44 BC
|
Rome
|
Ancient Roman general and statesman who served as Consul and Dictator
|
Latin casus ablativus (ablative case)
|
Unknown
|
Coinage[1]
|
Johann Peter Zwengel
|
Unknown
|
circa 1576
|
Holy Roman Empire
|
German civil servant
|
German Ablaut (ablaut)
|
1568
|
Coinage
|
Marcellin Berthelot
|
October 25, 1827
|
March 18, 1907
|
Paris
|
French chemist
|
French acétylène (acetylene)
|
1860
|
Coinage
|
Philip Verheyen
|
April 23, 1648
|
January 28, 1710
|
Verrebroek, Dutch Republic (modern-day Belgium)
|
Flemish anatomist
|
Modern Latin chorda Achillis (Achilles tendon, lit. Achilles' sinew)
|
1693
|
Coinage
|
Lorenz Heister
|
September 19, 1683
|
April 18, 1758
|
Frankfurt
|
German surgeon
|
Modern Latin tendo Achillis (Achilles tendon)
|
1717
|
Coinage
|
Pierre Marie
|
September 9, 1853
|
April 13, 1940
|
Paris
|
French neurologist
|
French acromégalie (acromegaly)
|
1885
|
The word is said in contemporary literature to have been coined by Marie.
|
Andrea Verga
|
May 20, 1811
|
November 21, 1895
|
Treviglio
|
Italian psychiatrist and neurologist
|
acrophobia
|
1887
|
Coinage[2]
|
Albrecht Kossel
|
September 16, 1853
|
July 5, 1927
|
Rostock
|
German biochemist
|
adenine
|
1885
|
Coinage
|
Takamine Jōkichi (高峰 譲吉)
|
1854
|
July 22, 1922
|
Takaoka (高岡)
|
Japanese chemist
|
adrenalin
|
1901
|
Coinage
|
Flavius Sosipater Charisius
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Roman empire
|
Ancient Roman grammarian who flourished 4th century AD, probably an African by birth, summoned to Constantinople to take the place of Euanthius, a learned commentator on Terence
|
Latin adverbium (adverb)
|
circa 360
|
Charisius coined the word as a translation of Greek ἐπίρρημα (epirrhema)[3]
|
Louis Pasteur
|
December 27, 1822
|
September 28, 1895
|
Dole, Jura
|
French biologist
|
French aérobie (aerobe)
|
1863
|
Coinage[4]
|
Kenneth H. Cooper
|
March 4, 1931
|
2024-11-5(living)
|
Oklahoma City
|
American physician
|
aerobics
|
1968
|
Coinage
|
Robert N. Butler
|
January 21, 1927
|
July 4, 2010
|
New York City
|
American gerontologist
|
ageism
|
1969
|
Coinage
|
Thomas Henry Huxley
|
May 4, 1825
|
June 29, 1895
|
Ealing
|
English biologist and anthropologist known as "Darwin's Bulldog"
|
agnostic
|
1869
|
Coinage
|
Carl Friedrich Otto Westphal
|
March 23, 1833
|
January 27, 1890
|
Berlin
|
German psychiatrist
|
German Agoraphobie (agoraphobia)
|
1871
|
Coinage
|
Napoleon
|
August 15, 1769
|
May 5, 1821
|
Ajaccio
|
French statesman and military leader who served as the head of French government
|
French la perfide Albion (perfidious Albion)
|
1813
|
Popularization[5][6]
|
Magnus Huss
|
October 22, 1807
|
April 22, 1890
|
Sweden
|
Swedish professor of medicine
|
Modern Latin alcoholismus (alcoholism)
|
1852
|
Coinage
|
Justus von Liebig
|
May 12, 1803
|
April 18, 1873
|
Darmstadt
|
German chemist
|
aldehyde
|
1835
|
Coinage[7]
|
Albert von Schrenck-Notzing
|
May 18, 1862
|
February 12, 1929
|
Oldenburg (city)
|
German physician, psychiatrist and notable psychical researcher
|
German algolagnie (algolagnia)
|
1892
|
Coinage
|
Paracelsus
|
1493/1494
|
September 24, 1541
|
Switzerland
|
Swiss alchemist
|
alkahest
|
circa 1527
|
Coinage
|
Clemens von Pirquet
|
May 12, 1874
|
February 28, 1929
|
Austria
|
Austrian scientist
|
German Allergie (allergy)
|
1906
|
Coinage
|
Auguste Comte
|
January 19, 1798
|
September 5, 1857
|
Montpellier
|
French philosopher
|
French altruisme (altruism)
|
1830
|
Coinage or popularization
|
Humphry Davy
|
December 17, 1778
|
May 29, 1829
|
Penzance
|
Cornish chemist
|
aluminum
|
1812
|
Coinage
|
John Milton
|
December 9, 1608
|
November 8, 1674
|
Cheapside
|
English poet
|
amaranthine
|
1667
|
Milton apparently coined this word[8]
|
Eugen Bleuler
|
April 30, 1857
|
July 15, 1939
|
Zollikon
|
Swiss psychiatrist
|
German Ambivalenz (ambivalence)
|
1910
|
Coinage
|
Kimball Young
|
October 26, 1893
|
September 1, 1972
|
Provo, Utah
|
American sociologist
|
ambivert
|
1927
|
Young coined the word in Source Book for Social Psychology
|
James Truslow Adams
|
October 18, 1878
|
May 18, 1949
|
Brooklyn
|
American writer and historian
|
American dream
|
1931
|
Adams coined this term in his 1931 book The Epic of America
|
John Witherspoon
|
February 5, 1723
|
November 15, 1794
|
Gifford
|
Scottish-American Presbyterian minister
|
Americanism
|
1781
|
Coinage[9]
|
John Wesley Powell
|
March 24, 1834
|
September 23, 1902
|
Mount Morris, New York
|
American scientific researcher and civil servant
|
Amerind
|
1899
|
Coinage[10]
|
Torbern Bergman
|
March 20, 1735
|
July 8, 1784
|
Sweden
|
Swedish chemist
|
Scientific Latin ammonia (ammonia)
|
1782
|
Coinage[11]
|
Robert Louis Stevenson
|
November 13, 1850
|
December 3, 1894
|
Edinburgh
|
Scottish writer
|
amoral
|
1882
|
Stevenson apparently coined this word[12]
|
Louis Pasteur
|
December 27, 1822
|
September 28, 1895
|
Dole, Jura
|
French biologist
|
French anaérobie (anaerobe)
|
1863
|
Coinage
|
Otto Jespersen
|
July 16, 1860
|
April 30, 1943
|
Randers
|
Danish linguist
|
anaphoric
|
1914
|
Coinage[13]
|
Gunnar Täckholm
|
February 2, 1891
|
January 24, 1933
|
Stockholm
|
Swedish botanist
|
aneuploid
|
1922
|
Coinage
|
Paul Hermann
|
June 30, 1646
|
January 29, 1695
|
Halle (Saale)
|
German botanist
|
Modern Latin Angiospermae (angiosperm)
|
1690
|
Coinage
|
Walter William Skeat
|
November 21, 1835
|
October 6, 1912
|
London
|
English philologist
|
Anglo-French
|
1887
|
The word was popularized, if not coined, by Skeat
|
Théodule-Armand Ribot
|
December 18, 1839
|
December 9, 1916
|
Guingamp
|
French psychologist
|
French anhédonie (anhedonia)
|
1896
|
Ribot coined this word as an opposite to analgesia
|
Carl Julius Fritzsche
|
October 17, 1808
|
June 8, 1871
|
Neustadt in Sachsen
|
German chemist
|
aniline
|
1841
|
Coinage
|
August Wilhelm von Hofmann
|
April 8, 1818
|
May 5, 1892
|
Giessen
|
German chemist
|
aniline
|
1840s
|
Hofmann adopted this word
|
Georg Ernst Stahl
|
October 22, 1659
|
May 24, 1734
|
Ansbach
|
German chemist, physician and philosopher
|
animism
|
circa 1720
|
Stahl coined this word based on the concept of the anima mundi
|
Edward Burnett Taylor
|
October 2, 1832
|
January 2, 1917
|
Camberwell
|
English anthropologist
|
animism
|
1866
|
Taylor reintroduced this word
|
Edward Burnett Taylor
|
October 2, 1832
|
January 2, 1917
|
Camberwell
|
English anthropologist
|
animism
|
1871
|
Taylor defined this word as the "theory of the universal animation of nature"
|
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
|
August 1, 1744
|
December 18, 1829
|
Bazentin
|
French naturalist
|
Modern Latin Annelida (annelid)
|
1801
|
Coinage
|
William Whewell
|
May 24, 1794
|
March 6, 1866
|
Lancashire
|
English scientist
|
anode
|
1834
|
Whewell proposed this word
|
Michael Faraday
|
September 22, 1791
|
July 11, 1845
|
Newington Butts
|
English scientist
|
anode
|
1834
|
Faraday published this word[14]
|
Johann Wilhelm Meigen
|
May 3, 1764
|
August 25, 1867
|
Solingen
|
German entomologist
|
Modern Latin Anopheles (Anopheles)
|
1818
|
Coinage
|
William Gull
|
December 31, 1816
|
January 29, 1890
|
Colchester
|
English physician
|
anorexia nervosa
|
1873
|
Coinage
|
William Gull
|
December 31, 1816
|
January 29, 1890
|
Colchester
|
English physician
|
apepsia hysterica
|
1868
|
Gull also offered as an alternative apepsia hysterica as a name for anorexia nervosa
|
Thomas Browne
|
October 19, 1605
|
October 19, 1682
|
London
|
English polymath
|
antediluvian
|
1646
|
Coinage
|
Francis Galton
|
February 16, 1822
|
January 17, 1911
|
Birmingham
|
English tropical explorer, geographer, and meteorologist
|
anticyclone
|
1863
|
Coinage[15]
|
Emil von Behring
|
March 15, 1854
|
March 31, 1917
|
Hansdorf, Kreis Rosenberg, Province of Prussia, Kingdom of Prussia, German Confederation (now Ławice, Iława County, Poland)
|
German physiologist
|
antitoxin
|
1890
|
Coinage
|
Charles John Smith
|
April 13, 1819[16]
|
November 29, 1872[16]
|
England
|
English clergyman
|
antonym
|
1867
|
Smith perhaps introduced the word to English in his 1867 book Synonyms and Antonyms
|
Johannes Kepler
|
December 27, 1571
|
November 15, 1630
|
Weil der Stadt
|
German astronomer
|
aphelion
|
1596[17]
|
Coinage
|
Carl Linnaeus
|
May 23, 1707
|
January 10, 1778
|
Råshult
|
Swedish botanist
|
aphis
|
1758
|
Coinage
|
John Henry Newman
|
February 21, 1801
|
August 11, 1890
|
City of London
|
English theologian
|
apologia
|
1864
|
The word apologia was popularized by Newman's Apologia Pro Vita Sua[18]
|
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
|
July 1, 1646
|
November 14, 1716
|
Leipzig
|
German polymath
|
German Apperzeption (apperception)
|
Unknown
|
Coinage
|
Heymann Steinthal
|
May 16, 1823
|
March 14, 1899
|
Gröbzig
|
German philologist and philosopher
|
German apraxie (apraxia)
|
1871
|
Coinage[19]
|
James Dwight Dana
|
February 12, 1813
|
April 14, 1895
|
Utica, New York
|
American geologist
|
Archaean
|
1872
|
Coinage[20]
|
Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer
|
September 3, 1801
|
April 2, 1869
|
Frankfurt
|
German palaeontologist
|
Modern Latin Archaeopteryx (archaeopteryx)
|
1861
|
Coinage
|
Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold
|
February 16, 1804
|
April 7, 1885
|
Würzburg
|
German zoologist
|
Modern Latin Arthropoda (Arthropoda)
|
1845
|
Coinage
|
Max Müller
|
December 6, 1823
|
October 28, 1900
|
Dessau
|
German-British philologist
|
Aryan
|
1859
|
Müller popularized this word in his writings on comparative linguistics, recommending it as the name (replacing Indo-European, Indo-Germanic, Caucasian, Japhetic) for the group of related, inflected languages connected with these peoples, mostly found in Europe but also including Sanskrit and Persian.[21]
|
Heinrich Dreser
|
October 1, 1860
|
December 21, 1924
|
Darmstadt
|
German chemist
|
German Aspirin (aspirin)
|
1899
|
Dreser coined this word as a trademark
|
William Herschel
|
November 15, 1738
|
August 25, 1822
|
Hanover
|
German-born British astronomer
|
asteroid
|
1802
|
Herschel probably coined this word
|
William Whewell
|
May 24, 1794
|
March 6, 1866
|
Lancashire
|
English scientist
|
astigmatism
|
1849
|
Coinage
|
Robert S. Dietz
|
September 14, 1914
|
May 19, 1995
|
Westfield, New Jersey
|
American scientist
|
astrobleme
|
1961
|
Coinage[22]
|
Joseph Henri Honoré Boex
|
February 17, 1856
|
February 11, 1940
|
Brussels
|
Belgo-French author
|
French astronautique (astronautic)
|
1927
|
Coinage
|
Antoine Nicolas Duchesne
|
October 7, 1747
|
February 18, 1827
|
Versailles, Yvelines
|
French botanist
|
French atavisme (atavism)
|
by 1820s
|
Coinage
|
Felix Jacob Marchand
|
October 22, 1846
|
February 4, 1928
|
Halle (Saale)
|
German Pathologist
|
German atherosklerose (atherosclerosis)
|
1904
|
Coinage[23]
|
William A. Hammond
|
August 28, 1828
|
January 5, 1900
|
Annapolis, Maryland
|
American military physician and neurologist
|
athetosis
|
1871
|
Coinage
|
Charles Darwin
|
February 12, 1809
|
April 19, 1882
|
The Mount, Shrewsbury
|
English naturalist, geologist and biologist
|
atoll
|
Unknown
|
Popularization
|
Æthelthryth
|
circa 636
|
June 23, 679
|
Exning
|
East Anglian princess, Fenland and Northumbrian queen and Abbess of Ely
|
Audrey
|
Unknown
|
Her reputation popularized this feminine proper name
|
Edward Delavan Perry
|
December 20, 1854
|
March 28, 1938
|
Troy, New York
|
American classical philologist
|
atopy
|
1923
|
Coinage
|
Pierre Gassendi
|
January 22, 1592
|
October 24, 1655
|
Champtercier
|
French astronomer
|
aurora borealis
|
1621
|
Coinage
|
Raymond Dart
|
February 4, 1893
|
November 22, 1988
|
Brisbane
|
Australian anthropologist
|
Australopithecus
|
1925
|
Coinage[24]
|
Eugen Bleuler
|
April 30, 1857
|
July 15, 1939
|
Zollikon
|
Swiss psychiatrist
|
German Autismus (autism)
|
1912
|
Coinage
|
Havelock Ellis
|
February 2, 1859
|
July 8, 1939
|
Croydon
|
English physician, eugenicist, writer, progressive intellectual and social reformer who studied human sexuality
|
auto-erotic
|
1898
|
Coinage
|
Delmar Sherille Harder
|
March 19, 1892[25]
|
September 21, 1973[25]
|
New York[25]
|
American businessman who once served as vice president of Ford Motor Company
|
automation
|
1948
|
Coinage[26]
|
Thomas Harrison Montgomery Jr.
|
March 5, 1873
|
March 19, 1912
|
New York City
|
American zoologist
|
autosome
|
1906
|
Coinage
|
Guillaume Joseph Gabriel de La Landelle
|
March 5, 1812
|
January 19, 1886
|
Montpellier
|
French aviation pioneer
|
French aviation (aviation)
|
1863
|
Guillaume Joseph Gabriel de La Landelle coined this word in his Aviation ou Navigation aérienne
|
Carl Linnaeus
|
May 23, 1707
|
January 10, 1778
|
Råshult
|
Swedish botanist
|
azalea
|
1735[27]
|
Coinage
|
Frédéric Chopin
|
March 1, 1810
|
October 17, 1849
|
Żelazowa Wola
|
Polish composer and virtuoso pianist
|
ballade
|
Unknown
|
The word was popularized in the 19th century as a type of musical composition by Chopin[28]
|
Jack Conway
|
1888
|
October 2, 1928
|
New York
|
American author who worked for Variety
|
baloney
|
1922
|
The word is sometimes said to have been coined by Conway
|
Al Smith
|
December 30, 1873
|
October 4, 1944
|
New York City
|
American politician who served four terms as Governor of New York and was the Democratic Party's candidate for president in 1928.
|
baloney
|
1930s
|
Popularization[29]
|
Lewis Carroll
|
January 27, 1832
|
January 14, 1898
|
Daresbury
|
English writer
|
bandersnatch
|
1871
|
Carroll coined this word in "Jabberwocky"
|
Liberace
|
May 16, 1919
|
February 4, 1987
|
West Allis, Wisconsin
|
American pianist
|
cry all the way to the bank
|
1956
|
Liberace coined the term after a Madison Square Garden concert that was panned by critics but packed with patrons
|
Saint Barbara
|
mid 3rd century
|
late 3rd century to early 4th century
|
Heliopolis Phoenicia, Roman Empire (present-day Baalbek, Lebanon)
|
Ancient Roman Chritian saint and martyr
|
Barbara
|
Unknown
|
The word was popularized as a Christian name by the legend of Saint Barbara, whose cult flourished from the 7th century
|
Adolf von Baeyer
|
October 31, 1835
|
August 20, 1917
|
Berlin
|
German chemist
|
German Barbitursäure (barbituric acid)
|
1863
|
Coinage[30]
|
Humphry Davy
|
December 17, 1778
|
May 29, 1829
|
Penzance
|
Cornish chemist
|
Modern Latin barium (barium)
|
1808
|
Coinage
|
Robert Boyle
|
January 25, 1627
|
December 31, 1691
|
Lismore Castle, Lismore, County Waterford, Kingdom of Ireland (in personal union with England and Scotland under Charles I of England)
|
Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor
|
barometer
|
Unknown
|
The name was probably coined (and certainly popularized) by Boyle[31]
|
Antoine Lavoisier
|
August 26, 1743
|
May 8, 1794
|
Paris
|
French chemist
|
barytes
|
Unknown
|
Coinage
|
Eduard Suess
|
August 20, 1831
|
April 26, 1914
|
London, England, United Kingdom
|
Austrian geologist born to Adolph Heinrich Suess (1797-1862), a Lutheran merchant born in Saxony, Holy Roman Empire and Eleonore Friederike Zdekauer, a Jewish woman born in Prague, , nowadays part of the Czech Republic, which once belonged to the Holy Roman Empire and the Austrian Empire (German Confederation)
|
German batholith (batholith)
|
1892
|
Coinage
|
Auguste Piccard
|
January 28, 1884
|
March 24, 1962
|
Basel
|
Swiss physicist, inventor and explorer
|
bathyscaphe
|
1947
|
Coinage
|
Herb Caen
|
April 3, 1916
|
February 1, 1997
|
Sacramento, California
|
American humorist and journalist
|
beatnik
|
1958
|
Coinage
|
John B. Watson
|
January 9, 1878
|
September 25, 1958
|
Travelers Rest, South Carolina
|
American psychologist
|
behaviorism
|
1913
|
Coinage
|
Thomas Jefferson
|
April 13, 1743
|
July 4, 1826
|
Shadwell, Virginia
|
American statesman who served as the 3rd president of the United States from March 4, 1801 to March 4, 1809
|
belittle
|
1781
|
The word is first recorded in writings of Thomas Jefferson and probably coined by him[32]
|
Ernst Haeckel
|
February 16, 1834
|
August 9, 1919
|
Potsdam
|
German biologist
|
benthos
|
1891
|
Coinage
|
Eilhard Mitscherlich
|
January 7, 1794
|
August 28, 1863
|
Wilhelmshaven
|
German chemist
|
German benzin (benzene)
|
1833
|
Coinage
|
Horace Walpole
|
September 24, 1717
|
March 2, 1797
|
London
|
English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician
|
betweenity
|
1760
|
The word, not recognized by Merriam-Webster, is a jocular formation and perhaps coined by Walpole[33]
|
H. L. Mencken
|
September 12, 1880
|
January 29, 1956
|
Baltimore
|
American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English
|
Bible belt
|
1924
|
The term is likely coined by Mencken
|
William Hyde Wollaston
|
August 6, 1766
|
December 22, 1828
|
Dereham
|
English chemist
|
bicarbonate
|
1814
|
Wollaston apparently coined this word[34]
|
Jack Conway
|
1888
|
October 2, 1928
|
New York
|
American author who worked for Variety
|
bimbo
|
1920s
|
The word is said to have been popularized by Conway
|
Van Rensselaer Potter
|
August 27, 1911
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September 6, 2001
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South Dakota
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American biochemist
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bioethics
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1970
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Coinage
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Gardner Murphy
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July 8, 1895
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March 18, 1979
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Chillicothe, Ohio
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American psychologist
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biofeedback
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1969
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The word is said to have been coined by Murphy[35]
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Elliott Coues
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September 9, 1842
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December 25, 1899
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Portsmouth, New Hampshire
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American army surgeon and ornithologist
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biogen
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1882
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Coinage[36]
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Thomas Henry Huxley
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May 4, 1825
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June 29, 1895
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Ealing
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English biologist and anthropologist known as "Darwin's Bulldog"
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biogenesis
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1870
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Coinage
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Frederic Clements
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September 16, 1874
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July 26, 1945
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Lincoln, Nebraska
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American plant ecologist
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biome
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1916
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Clements probably coined this term
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William Whewell
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May 24, 1794
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March 6, 1866
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Lancashire
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English scientist
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biometry
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1831
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Coinage[37]
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Thomas Scott Lambert
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May 22, 1819
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March 21, 1897
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Wakefield, Massachusetts
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American physican
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biometry
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1860s
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Popularization
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Patrick Geddes
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October 2, 1854
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April 17, 1932
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Ballater
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Scottish biologist
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bionomics[38]
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1888
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Coinage[39]
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Ernest Besnier
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April 21, 1831
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May 15, 1909
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Honfleur
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French dermatologist
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French biopsie (biopsy)
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1895
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Coinage
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Eduard Suess
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August 20, 1831
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April 26, 1914
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London, England, United Kingdom
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Austrian geologist born to Adolph Heinrich Suess (1797-1862), a Lutheran merchant born in Saxony, Holy Roman Empire and Eleonore Friederike Zdekauer, a Jewish woman born in Prague, , nowadays part of the Czech Republic, which once belonged to the Holy Roman Empire and the Austrian Empire (German Confederation)
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German Biosphäre (biosphere)
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1875
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Coinage
|
John Tukey
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June 16, 1915
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July 26, 2000
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New Bedford, Massachusetts
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American mathematician
|
bit
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1948
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Coinage
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William James
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January 11, 1842
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August 26, 1910
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New York City
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American philosopher and psychologist
|
bitch goddess
|
1906
|
Coinage[40]
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Edmund Spenser
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1552/1553
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January 13, 1599
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London
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English poet
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blatant
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1596
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The word was coined 1596 by Edmund Spenser in "The Faerie Queen," in blatant beast, a thousand-tongued monster representing slander[41]
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Westbrook Pegler
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August 2, 1894
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June 24, 1969
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Minneapolis
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American journalist and writer
|
bleeding heart
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1930s
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This word is said by many to have been popularized with reference to liberals (especially Eleanor Roosevelt) in 1930s by Pegler[42]
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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October 11, 1884
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November 7, 1962
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New York City
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American political figure, diplomat and activist, serving as the First Lady of the United States during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt's terms
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bleeding heart
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1930s
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This word is said by many to have been popularized with reference to liberals (especially Eleanor Roosevelt) in 1930s by Pegler[42]
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Frank Munsey
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August 21, 1854
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December 22, 1925
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Mercer, Maine
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American newspaper and magazine publisher and author
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blurb
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1906
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The word, according to Publishers' Weekly, was invented by Munsey. The word was originally used to mock excessive praise printed on book jackets and probably derisively imitative[43]
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Gelett Burgess
|
January 30, 1866
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September 18, 1951
|
Mercer, Maine
|
American humorist
|
blurb
|
1907
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Popularization[43]
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Robert J. Roberts
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1849
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December 22, 1920
|
England, United Kingdom
|
Body-builder born in England, coming to the United States when young and serving as superintendent of the Boston YMCA gymnasium
|
body building
|
Perhaps 1881
|
Coinage
|
Henri Murger
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March 27, 1822
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January 28, 1861
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Paris
|
French novelist and poet
|
bohemian
|
late 1840s
|
The word was popularized by Henri Murger's stories from the late 1840s later collected as Scenes de la Vie de Boheme[44]
|
H. L. Mencken
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September 12, 1880
|
January 29, 1956
|
Baltimore
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American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English
|
booboisie
|
1922
|
Mencken seems to have coined this word[45]
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