Yerkes may refer to:
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Yerkes (surname) Yerkes is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Bob Yerkes (born Brayton Walter Yerkes; born 1932), American stuntman
*Carroll Yerkes (1903–1950), American baseball pitcher
*Charles Yerkes (1837–1905), American financier and art ...
, notable people with this surname
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Yerkes, Kentucky
Yerkes is an unincorporated community and coal town in Perry County, Kentucky
Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South. ...
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Yerkes, Pennsylvania
Yerkes is an unincorporated village in Upper Providence Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States, just southwest of Collegeville. Yerkes is at a former road crossing of the Perkiomen Creek
Perkiomen Creek is a U.S. Geological ...
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Yerkes Observatory, an astronomical observatory of the University of Chicago
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Yerkes luminosity classification
In astronomy, stellar classification is the classification of stars based on their spectral characteristics. Electromagnetic radiation from the star is analyzed by splitting it with a prism or diffraction grating into a spectrum exhibiting the ...
of stars
** Yerkes scheme of
galaxy morphological classification
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Yerkes National Primate Research Center, one of eight national primate research centers funded by the National Institutes of Health, located in Atlanta, Georgia at Emory University
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Yerkes–Dodson law, an empirical relationship between arousal and performance first noted by Robert M. Yerkes and John Dillingham Dodson
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990 Yerkes
990 Yerkes is a main belt asteroid discovered by Belgian-American astronomer George Van Biesbroeck in 1922, and named after the Yerkes Observatory.
Photometry (astronomy), Photometric observations of this asteroid collected during 2009 show a ro ...
, main belt asteroid
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Yerkes (crater), on the moon
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