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.

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Chevron’s acquisition of Hess Corp., completed earlier this year after a tug-of-war with Exxon over assets in Guyana, addressed investors’ concerns about the quality and longevity of Chevron’s international portfolio.

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The midpoint of that range would represent a slight decline from its current rate, after taking into account its acquisition of Hess.

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One of the leading German geographers of the era, Karl Haushofer, was a father figure to Rudolf Hess and Adolf Hitler.

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The company said it incurred a net loss of $235 million due to severance and other transaction costs related to its acquisition of Hess.

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The company has achieved several of its goals in 2025, including pumping out more than 1 million barrels of oil per day from the Permian Basin and finalizing a deal to acquire oil producer Hess.

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