Minkowski
Americannoun
noun
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Marc Minkowski, the renowned Baroque maestro who until last year directed the Opéra National de Bordeaux, where the ballet premiered, recalled: “Angelin said, ‘I have a friend who’s one of the Daft Punks.’
From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2023
"The pandemic created "go to" countries where governments saw the benefit of keeping productions running with exemptions to border shutdowns, quarantines, and other restrictions," said Minkowski.
From Reuters • Sep. 6, 2021
The new set abounds with them, including Arnold Östman’s spirited chamber recording of “Le nozze di Figaro” and fresh, robust performances by John Eliot Gardiner,Christopher Hogwood,Trevor Pinnock,Frans Brüggen and Marc Minkowski and their respective ensembles.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 6, 2016
In 1908, German physicist Hermann Minkowski coined the term “spacetime” to describe the unified concept.
From Science Magazine • Oct. 26, 2016
A four-dimensional continuum described by the "co-ordinates" x1, x2, x3, x4, was called "world" by Minkowski, who also termed a point-event a "world-point."
From Relativity: The Special and General Theory by Einstein, Albert
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