Yerkes

[ yur-keez ]

noun

1. Charles Tyson, 1837–1905, U.S. financier and mass-transit magnate.
2. Robert Mearns [murnz], 1876–1956, U.S. psychologist and psychobiologist: pioneered in studies of the great apes.

Example Sentences

Mr. Yerkes, an American millionaire, generously undertook to provide the cost of this observatory.

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Mr. Yerkes, of Chicago, was a speculator who made millions in the street-car system.

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But this freak is a very educable creature, as Professor Yerkes has shown.

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Three rooms of the laboratory are reserved for psychological experiments on animals, under the special charge of Dr. Yerkes.

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It has now two—the Paris 50-inch refractor and the Yerkes 5-foot reflector.

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