Minkowski
Americannoun
noun
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"The pandemic created "go to" countries where governments saw the benefit of keeping productions running with exemptions to border shutdowns, quarantines, and other restrictions," said Minkowski.
From Reuters • Sep. 6, 2021
The new set abounds with them, including Arnold Östman’s spirited chamber recording of “Le nozze di Figaro” and fresh, robust performances by John Eliot Gardiner,Christopher Hogwood,Trevor Pinnock,Frans Brüggen and Marc Minkowski and their respective ensembles.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 6, 2016
In 1908, German physicist Hermann Minkowski coined the term “spacetime” to describe the unified concept.
From Science Magazine • Oct. 26, 2016
“Space by itself and time by itself are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality,” the mathematician Hermann Minkowski declared.
From Scientific American • Mar. 12, 2014
Similarly, the world of physical phenomena which was briefly called " world " by Minkowski is naturally four dimensional in the space-time sense.
From Relativity : the Special and General Theory by Lawson, Robert W. (Robert William)
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