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Jensen

American  
[yen-zuhn, yen-suhn] / ˈjɛn zən, ˈjɛn 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.


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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Jensen Scientific  
/ yĕnzən /
  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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It prefers Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s description of the company as a “new generation AI-native cloud…built from the ground up for this era of computing.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

CEO Jensen Huang has called humanoid robots a “multitrillion-dollar economic opportunity.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang considers humanoid robots to be ”a multitrillion-dollar economic opportunity.”

From MarketWatch Jul. 2, 2026

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and SK Hynix Chair Chey Tae-won have also made similar warnings about the timeline.

From Slate Jul. 2, 2026

“We could live in our old house and you could work at Sam Jensen Electric like you have my whole life.”

From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko

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