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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

Von Guericke had demonstrated how two hemispheres from which the air had been extracted were held so tightly together by air pressure that teams of horses could not pull them apart.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton