Andrew Thorndike
Andrew Thorndike (30 August 1909 – 14 December 1979) was a German documentary film director. He directed 16 films between 1949 and 1977. His 1950 documentary, '' Der Weg nach oben'', won the Best Documentary Film at the Karlovy Vary Intern ...
(1909–1979), a German film director
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Ashley Horace Thorndike
Ashley Horace Thorndike (1871 – April 17, 1933) was an American educator and expert on William Shakespeare. He was the son of a clergyman Edward R Thorndike, and the brother of Lynn Thorndike, an American historian of medieval science and alchemy ...
(1871–1933), an American educator
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Augustus Thorndike Augustus Thorndike, M.D. (1896–1986), was the chief of surgery at Harvard University Health Service from 1931 to 1962 and a pioneer in sports medicine.
Thorndike served in World War I and was a 1919 graduate of Harvard College and a 1921 gra ...
(1896–1986), an American physician
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Edward Thorndike
Edward Lee Thorndike (August 31, 1874 – August 9, 1949) was an American psychologist who spent nearly his entire career at Teachers College, Columbia University. His work on comparative psychology and the learning process led to the theory o ...
(1874–1949), a behavioral psychologist
* Elizabeth Thorndike (1632–1672), the second wife of John Proctor, daughter of John Thorndike
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Frances Cope
Frances Cope, also known as Frances Thorndike (August 19, 1902 - May 14, 1982), was an American mathematician who published on irregular differential equations. The Thorndike nomogram, a two-dimensional diagram of the Poisson distribution, is named ...
(1902–1982), , an American mathematician, daughter of Edward Thorndike
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Guillermo Thorndike
Guillermo Thorndike Losada (April 25, 1940 – March 9, 2009) was a Peruvian journalist and writer, who helped to found several important newspapers within Peru. Thorndike helped to found ''La República'', one of the country's main national daili ...
(1940–2009), a Peruvian journalist and writer
* Helen Louise Thorndyke, pseudonym for the multiple authors of the
Honey Bunch
Honey is a sweet and Viscosity, viscous substance made by several Bee, bees, the best-known of which are honey bees. Honey is made and stored to nourish bee colonies. Bees produce honey by gathering and then refining the sugary secretions of ...
book series
* Herbert Thorndike (1598–1672), an English academic and clergyman
* Israel Thorndike (1755–1832), an American sailor, merchant, and politician
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John Thorndike (settler)
John Thorndike (February 23, 1611 or 1612 – interred 1668) was one of the first founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Other sources show his birth date as born February 1610/11.
Biography
Thorndike was a farmer and cowherd from Great ...
(1611/12–1668), one of the founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, brother of Herbert Thorndike
* John Thorndike, (b. 1942), an American writer
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Joseph J. Thorndike
Joseph Jacobs Thorndike (July 29, 1913 – November 22, 2005) was an American editor and writer.Lynn Thorndike (1882–1965), an American historian, brother of Ashley Horace Thorndike
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Robert L. Thorndike
Robert Ladd Thorndike (September 22, 1910 – September 21, 1990) was an American psychometrician and educational psychologist who made significant contributions to the analysis of reliability, the interpretation of error, cognitive ability, and ...
(1910–1990), an American psychologist, son of Edward Thorndike
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Robert M. Thorndike
Robert M. Thorndike (born March 2, 1943) is an American psychology professor known for several definitive textbooks on research procedures and psychometrics.
He earned his B.A. in psychology from Wesleyan University in 1965 and his Ph.D. from th ...
(born 1943), an American psychologist, son of Robert L. Thorndike
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Russell Thorndike
Arthur Russell Thorndike (6 February 1885 – 7 November 1972) was a British actor and novelist, best known for the Doctor Syn of Romney Marsh novels. Less well-known than his sister Sybil but equally versatile, Russell Thorndike's first love ...
(1885–1972), a British actor and novelist, brother of Sybil Thorndike
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Sybil Thorndike
Dame Agnes Sybil Thorndike, Lady Casson (24 October 18829 June 1976) was an English actress whose stage career lasted from 1904 to 1969.
Trained in her youth as a concert pianist, Thorndike turned to the stage when a medical problem with her ...
(1882–1976), a British actress
* W. L. Thorndyke, perpetrator of the
Maggie Murphy hoax
The Maggie Murphy hoax was a hoax perpetrated in 1895 by W. L. Thorndyke. He created an image that depicted farmer Joseph B. Swan holding what appeared to be a giant potato. The photo rapidly spread around the United States, and appeared in a panel ...
Fictional characters
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Dr. Thorndyke
Dr. John Evelyn Thorndyke is a fictional detective in a long series of 21 novels and 40 short stories by British author R. Austin Freeman (1862–1943). Thorndyke was described by his author as a 'medical jurispractitioner': originally a medica ...
, a fictional detective in novels by R. Austin Freeman
* Chris Thorndyke, a human boy in the Sonic X anime television series
* Key Thorndyke, fictional newspaper magnate in the 1948 film State of the Union (film)
* Peter Thorndyke, villain in the 1968 film
The Love Bug
''The Love Bug'' is a 1968 American comedy film directed by Robert Stevenson and the first in a franchise by Walt Disney Productions and distributed by Buena Vista Distribution that starred an anthropomorphic pearl-white, fabric-sunroofed 1963 ...
* Dr. Richard Thorndyke, main character in the 1977 film
High Anxiety
''High Anxiety'' is a 1977 American satirical comedy film produced and directed by Mel Brooks, who also plays the lead. This is Brooks' first film as a producer and first speaking lead role (his first lead role was in ''Silent Movie''). Veteran ...
Places
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Thorndike, Maine
Thorndike is a town in Waldo County, Maine, United States. The town was named after Israel Thorndike, a landowner. The population was 774 at the 2020 census.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , ...
, a town in the United States
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Kennedy–Thorndike experiment
The Kennedy–Thorndike experiment, first conducted in 1932 by Roy J. Kennedy and Edward M. Thorndike, is a modified form of the Michelson–Morley experimental procedure, testing special relativity.
The modification is to make one arm of the class ...