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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 *
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 ...
* Yerkes Observatory, an astronomical observatory of the University of Chicago **
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 * 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 * Yerkes–Dodson law, an empirical relationship between arousal and performance first noted by Robert M. Yerkes and John Dillingham Dodson *
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 * Yerkes (crater), on the moon {{disambig