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Kerst

American  
[kurst] / kɜrst /

noun

  1. Donald William, 1911–1994, U.S. physicist.


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Silver Spring’s Steve Kerst wrote: “My grandmother’s old Studebaker Commander had the name first … probably got better mileage on the road.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 9, 2022

Said Professor Donald William Kerst, developer of the betatron and builder of the Illinois machine: "We are in business, making mesons."

From Time Magazine Archive

Inventor Kerst first learned his physics at the University of Wisconsin, then taught at the University of Illinois, where last year he built his first small betatron � a 2,300,000-volt table-top model.

From Time Magazine Archive

While U.S. scientists speculated upon the discoveries the device might lead to, they welcomed to their front ranks its brilliant young inventor, Donald William Kerst, 30, who calls the machine a "betatron."

From Time Magazine Archive

If you want to comprehend the authentic man, don't linger over Rolland's fancies but go to his own philosophizings, as garnered in "Beethoven, the Man and the Artist," by Friedrich Kerst, Englished by Krehbiel.

From Damn! A Book of Calumny by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)