Hess

American  

[hes] / hɛs /

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.

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Hess British  

/ 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)

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Hess Scientific  

/ hĕs /

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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Example Sentences

It also snapped up new talent — and new exploration frontiers — when it acquired Hess last year.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 3, 2026

Speaking after the qualifiers earlier on Friday, Hess said was embracing the label and that the furore had boosted his motivation.

From Barron's • Feb. 20, 2026

Before the Games, Hess had said: "Just because I'm wearing the flag doesn't mean I represent everything that's going on in the US."

From BBC • Feb. 20, 2026

In Preston: Married filmmakers Jared and Jerusha Hess co-wrote “Napoleon Dynamite” and set the low-budget comedy in their hometown.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026

In the Second World War, a Princeton University mineralogist named Harry Hess was put in charge of an attack transport ship, the USS Cape Johnson.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson