Pontoppidan

[ pon-top-i-dahn ]

noun

1. Hen·rik [hen, -, r, eek], 1857–1943, Danish novelist: Nobel Prize 1917.

Pontoppidan

/ pontˈtopidan /

noun

1. PontoppidanHenrik18571943MDanishWRITING: novelistWRITING: short-story writer Henrik. 1857–1943, Danish novelist and short-story writer, author of the novel sequences The Promised Land (1891–95), Lykke-Per (1898–1904), and The Empire of Death (1912–16). Nobel prize for literature 1917

Example Sentences

JWST now shows the nebula’s “infrared fireworks,” Pontoppidan says.

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“I couldn’t even share it with my wife,” says Pontoppidan, leader of the team that produced the first color science images.

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Some of the most famous Hubble Space Telescope images feature this nebula in visible light, but JWST shows it in “infrared fireworks,” Pontoppidan says.

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The team doesn’t want to promise something specific and then be wrong, Pontoppidan says.

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It will take at least another five months after arriving at L2 to finish calibrating all of those science instruments, Pontoppidan says.

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It is easy to recognise in Pontoppidan's description of the Kraken, the form and habits of one of the "Cuttle-fishes," so-called.

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Of course the worthy bishop of Bergen, Pontoppidan, has something to tell us about mermaids in his part of the world.

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He gave me a lesson out of Pontoppidan to learn, and now I'm to be heard.

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Perhaps her mother had tried to force her to marry Erik Pontoppidan.

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But Pontoppidan evidently uses it as descriptive of all the cephalopods.

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