The advances in orchestration and tonality Wagner made in this work are of seminal importance in the history of Western music.

His studies on the tertiaries of Sind was considered to be of seminal importance.

His main interest lay in colour vision and his Principle of Univariance is of seminal importance in the study of perception.

Since the late 1980s, prominent individuals and organizations have recognized the seminal importance of Engelbart's contributions.

His book Town planning and road traffic (Tripp, 1942) proved of seminal importance.

The concepts of cybertext and ergodic literature were of seminal importance to new media studies, in particular literary approaches to digital texts and to game studies.

Ms. Riley notes that Klee's "seminal importance" to her was that through him she came to understand abstraction.

Originally working in physics, he began in 1883 to concentrate on physiological optics where he published over thirty papers, some of seminal importance.

"For outstanding and sustained contributions to analytical science by someone working in a complementary field, which has led to developments of seminal importance to chemical analysis."

The nine Beethoven symphonies are colossal works of seminal importance to the classical repertory.