War II. Rehabilitation engineering in the United States had its roots following World War II in activities of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) that were initiated by the U.S. Army and the Veterans Administration (VA).
Perhaps the single greatest contribution Linnaeus made to science was his method of naming species. This method, called binomial nomenclature, gives each species a unique, two-word Latin name consisting of the genus name and the species name. An example is Homo sapiens, the two-word Latin name for humans.
In science, the practice of classifying organisms is called taxonomy (Taxis means arrangement and nomos means method). The modern taxonomic system was developed by the Swedish botanist Carolus (Carl) Linneaeus (1707-1788).