Gould

[goold]

noun

1. Chester, 1900–85, U.S. cartoonist: creator of the comic strip “Dick Tracy.”

2. Glenn Herbert, 1932–82, Canadian pianist and composer.

3. Jay, 1836–92, U.S. financier.

4. Morton, 1913–1996, U.S. composer and pianist.

5. Stephen Jay, 1941–2002, U.S. paleontologist, biologist, and science writer.

Gould

/ ɡuːld /

noun

1. Benjamin Apthorp. 1824–96, US astronomer: the first to use the telegraph to determine longitudes; founded the Astronomical Journal (1849)

2. Glenn. 1932–82, Canadian pianist

Gould

1. American paleontologist and evolutionary biologist who with Niles Eldredge developed the theory of punctuated equilibrium in 1972. He published numerous books which popularized his sometimes controversial ideas on evolutionary theory among the general public.

Example Sentences

Education minister Georgia Gould has since said "there will always be a legal right to additional support", adding that children, families and teachers will be "at the forefront" of Send reforms.

From BBC

In an email sent to all employees, Mr Gould said ZSL had already tightened budgets, frozen non-essential recruitment, and squeezed spending, but, he wrote, "we need to go further".

From BBC

But Goodall overcame her critics and produced work that Gould later characterized as “one of the Western world’s great scientific achievements.”

From Los Angeles Times

“I view what’s happening today as part of a continuum,” Gould told me this week.

From Los Angeles Times

Galton “advocated the regulation of marriage and family size according to hereditary endowment of parents,” Gould noted in his classic 1981 book “The Mismeasure of Man.”

From Los Angeles Times