Hess

[hes]

noun

1. Dame Myra, 1890–1965, English pianist.

2. Victor Francis, 1883–1964, U.S. physicist, born in Austria: Nobel Prize 1936.

3. Walter Rudolf, 1881–1973, Swiss physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1949.

4. (Walther Richard) Rudolf 1894–1987, German official in the Nazi party.

Hess

/ hɛs /

noun

1. Dame Myra. 1890–1965, English pianist

2. ( Walther Richard ) Rudolf (ˈruːdɔlf). 1894–1987, German Nazi leader. He made a secret flight to Scotland (1941) to negotiate peace with Britain but was held as a prisoner of war; later sentenced to life imprisonment at the Nuremberg trials (1946); committed suicide

3. Victor Francis. 1883–1964, US physicist, born in Austria: pioneered the investigation of cosmic rays: shared the Nobel prize for physics (1936)

Hess

1. American geologist who studied the sea floor and developed the theory of sea-floor spreading in 1960. Hess theorized that sea floors were constantly renewed by the flow of magma from the Earth's mantle through the oceanic rifts. This hypothesis became an important component of the theory of plate tectonics.

Example Sentences

Frederick Hess, director of education policy at the American Enterprise Institute, called it “profoundly problematic” and said the government’s requests are “ungrounded in law.”

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Hess said that while he likes the principles underlying the agreement, the approach is “profoundly problematic” and could be used in the future by Democrats to push opposing viewpoints.

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Rick Hess, an education analyst with the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank, said Newsom’s remarks “seemed not inappropriate.”

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In recent years, according to Mr Hess, American higher education has become more closely tied to the government and more reliant on government funding.

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"Momentum is sagging a bit which is a little concerning," says Hannah Hess of the Rhodium Group research firm, which partners with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to produce it.

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