Jensen

American  

[yen-zuhn, yen-suhn] / ˈyɛn zən, ˈyɛn sən /

noun

1. J. Hans D. 1907–73, German physicist: Nobel Prize 1963.

2. Johannes Vilhelm 1873–1950, Danish poet and novelist: Nobel Prize 1944.

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Jensen British  

/ ˈjɛnsən /

noun

1. Johannes Vilhelm (joˈhanəs ˈvɪlhelm). 1873–1950, Danish novelist, poet, and essayist: best known for his novel sequence about the origins of mankind The Long Journey (1908–22). Nobel prize for literature 1944

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Jensen Scientific  

/ yĕn′zən /

1. German physicist who, with Maria Goeppert-Mayer, developed a model of the atomic nucleus that explained why certain nuclei were stable and had an unusual number of stable isotopes. For this work, Jensen and Goeppert-Mayer shared the 1963 Nobel Prize for physics with American physicist Eugene Wigner.

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Example Sentences

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang just signed a new partnership agreement with SK Hynix, but that’s not helping shares of the South Korean memory-chip manufacturer.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 8, 2026

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Friday that the company had certified Micron alongside SK Hynix and Samsung as providers of the latest design of high-bandwidth memory, known as HBM4.

From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang predicted Marvell could be “the next trillion-dollar company,” having invested $2 billion in the firm.

From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026

Marvell Technology, a chip firm that specializes in networking technology for data centers, got a major stamp of approval from Jensen Huang.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

Jensen nodded and said, “I swear,” and then a little later we carried Strunk to the dustoff chopper.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien