Hooke

American  

[hook] / hʊk /

noun

1. Robert, 1635–1703, English philosopher, microscopist, and physicist.

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Hooke British  

/ hʊk /

noun

1. Robert. 1635–1703, English physicist, chemist, and inventor. He formulated Hooke's law (1678), built the first Gregorian telescope, and invented a balance spring for watches

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Hooke Scientific  

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1. English physicist, inventor, and mathematician who contributed to many aspects of science. With Robert Boyle he demonstrated that both combustion and respiration require air and that sound does not travel in a vacuum. Hooke studied plants and other objects under microscopes and was the first to use the word cell to describe the patterns he observed. He also identified fossils as a record of changes among organisms on the planet throughout history.

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“There’s no economic incentive” for an auditor to scrutinize valuations too deeply, said Jeffrey Hooke, who teaches at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School and researches private-fund valuations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026

Hooke, the former private equity executive, had another theory.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2024

“It really just spurred out of the need for quality time together,” said Hooke, 32, who lives in Seattle with her husband, Sathya Prakash, and their toddler, Alden.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 30, 2023

In a 1665 publication called Micrographia, experimental scientist Robert Hooke coined the term “cell” for the box-like structures he observed when viewing cork tissue through a lens.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

Hooke pointed out the error and suggested that the correct orbit followed by the falling object, assuming it could pass through the solid Earth without resistance, would be a kind of shrinking ellipse.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin