Blackwell

American  

[blak-wuhl, -wel] / ˈblæk wəl, -ˌwɛl /

noun

1. Antoinette Louisa (Brown), 1825–1921, U.S. clergywoman, abolitionist, and women's-rights activist.

2. Elizabeth, 1821–1910, U.S. physician, born in England: first woman physician in the U.S.

3. Henry Brown, 1825?–1909, U.S. editor, abolitionist, and suffragist, born in England (husband of Lucy Stone).

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Blackwell Scientific  

/ blăck′wĕl′ /

1. British-born American physician who was the first woman doctor in the United States. In 1851 she founded an infirmary for women and children in New York City that her sister Emily Blackwell (1826–1910), also a physician, directed. Emily Blackwell was the first woman doctor to perform major surgeries on a regular basis.

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The RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell is a useful measuring stick, since it’s sold both to the cloud providers and the companies that would otherwise rent from them.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026

Broadcom also shipped Jalapeño chips developed in partnership with OpenAI, which Tan says outperform Nvidia’s Grace Blackwell GPUs for inference workloads.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

Blackwell even created fake email accounts to make it seem like she had been communicating with agents.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

They say communications tasks that take about 4,000 nanoseconds for an Nvidia Blackwell processor to perform can be done by Etched’s chips in 700 nanoseconds, thanks to the chip’s architecture and custom interconnections.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

For a war-robbed colleague, the notes read, from fellow admirers of David Blackwell in the brotherhood of mathematicians.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie