Abelson

British

/ ˈeɪbəlsən /

noun

Philip. 1913–2004, US physical chemist. He created (with Edwin McMillan) the first transuranic element, neptunium (1940)

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Investors greeted Dow 1000 with “about the same degree of enthusiasm they’d accord news of a record run in cricket,” Alan Abelson wrote in the Up & Down Wall Street column in Barron’s.

From Barron's • Nov. 5, 2025

District Judge Adam Abelson in Baltimore blocked the orders, but last week a three-judge panel on the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the orders can be enforced.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2025

Abelson also found the executive orders likely violate free-speech rights.

From Salon • Feb. 25, 2025

District Judge Adam Abelson ruled that the directives by Trump may violate free-speech rights in the US Constitution.

From BBC • Feb. 21, 2025

They found Abelson laboring in a forest of one hundred towering cylindrical columns, in which uranium hexafluoride with a high concentration of U-235 was accumulating.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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