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

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

From Salon • Feb. 25, 2025

Reed Abelson is a health care reporter for The Times and Jordan Rau is a reporter for KFF Health News.

From New York Times • Nov. 14, 2023

The same-day reservations snagged by Abelson — and a Times reporter — may be fallout from the scandal involving the owners and chefs, Elizabeth Johnson and Will Aghajanian.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2023

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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