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
The Yerkes–Dodson law is an empirical relationship between pressure and performance, originally developed by psychologists Robert M. Yerkes and John Dillingham Dodson in 1908. The law dictates that performance increases with physiological or ...
, 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)
Yerkes is a lunar impact crater near the western edge of Mare Crisium. It was named after American financier Charles Yerkes. To the east of Yerkes is the crater Picard, and farther to the north is Peirce.
In the past the interior of this crat ...
, on the moon
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