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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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The deal deepened ties between the White House and the world’s largest chip designer, whose chief executive, Jensen Huang, speaks regularly with President Trump and advises him on AI policy.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

“We’re at an inflection point in cybersecurity,” said Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who spoke onstage with CrowdStrike Chief Executive George Kurtz at the cyber firm’s conference on Tuesday.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 2, 2026

Top US tech bosses, including Nvidia chief Jensen Huang and OpenAI's Sam Altman, urged G20 ministers Wednesday to embrace artificial intelligence and build the data centers to run it.

From Barron's Sep. 2, 2026

“The world will need both closed models and open models,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang noted on the company’s Wednesday earnings call.

From MarketWatch Aug. 27, 2026

Watson carried the deep-sea lead forward, and the other men followed, each with fakes of the line coiled in his hand—Collins on the cathead, Sandy in the fore chains, and Jensen in the main chains.

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham

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