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Erwin

American  
[ur-win] / ˈɜr wɪn /

noun

  1. a male given name: from Old English words meaning “boar” and “friend.”


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But this is not, I believe, simply willful naivete, Erwin.

From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026

Erich Mendelsohn, the young architect, was a member of Munich’s artistic avant-garde, while Erwin Finlay Freundlich, one of the first German physicists to endorse the theory of relativity, belonged to the scientific avant-garde.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

Independent director and producer Jon Erwin insists the core of the craft isn't going anywhere.

From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026

One of the most famous illustrations of quantum mechanics came in 1935, when Erwin Schrödinger proposed his cat paradox.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026

A major factor in his leaving physics and developing an interest in biology had been the reading in 1946 of What Is Life? by the noted theoretical physicist Erwin Schrodinger.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

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