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.
Linnaeus: Botanist who popularized botany, developed a system of classification in plants that permitted the identification of plants without a teacher, credited for the use of binomials in species name and for recording all of the known species of known plants in his Species Plantarum, published in 1753.