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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

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

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

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 H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

Project Gutenberg's Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words, by Kerst and Krehbiel *******This file should be named wamma11.txt or wamma11.zip******

From Mozart: the man and the artist, as revealed in his own words by Friedrich Kerst

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