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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“Just because an airport is declared open doesn’t mean it’s safe to operate to and from,” Blackwell said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Mistral said it had trained its new model on about 4,000 Nvidia Grace Blackwell graphics processing units deployed at its own data centers in Europe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

He noted that current lead times for Nvidia’s most advanced Blackwell chips are over 30 weeks, and that average selling prices for those chips are up more than 30% sequentially.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

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

Blackwell, who was seven years younger than Stone, promised her that marriage did not have to involve submission of the wife to the husband.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

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