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Guericke

American  
[gair-uh-kee, -kuh, gwair-, gy-ri-kuh] / ˈgɛər ə ki, -kə, ˈgwɛər-, ˈgü rɪ kə /

noun

  1. Otto von 1602–86, German physicist.


Guericke British  
/ ˈɡeːrikə /

noun

  1. Otto von. 1602–86, German physicist: invented the air pump (1650) and demonstrated the power of a vacuum with the Magdeburg hemispheres

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“It is just too hard to believe” at first, says Sabel of Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg and editor-in-chief of Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience.

From Science Magazine May 9, 2023

It hosts the Otto von Guericke University and has space for a new plant in the Eulenberg industrial area in the southwest.

From Reuters Feb. 26, 2022

The nonprofit’s director, Dan Guericke, pleaded guilty to falsifying evidence.

From Washington Times Dec. 31, 2018

“The tone has changed,” said Roger Stöcker, a political scientist at the city’s Otto von Guericke University.

From Washington Post Oct. 1, 2017

First, though the idea of using a cylinder and piston went back to Guericke, there was no recent experience of combining this with steam in England.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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