Pontoppidan

American  

[pon-top-i-dahn] / pɒnˈtɒp ɪˌdɑn /

noun

1. Henrik 1857–1943, Danish novelist: Nobel Prize 1917.

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Pontoppidan British  

/ pontˈtopidan /

noun

1. Henrik. 1857–1943, Danish novelist and short-story writer, author of the novel sequences The Promised Land (1891–95), Lykke-Per (1898–1904), and The Empire of Death (1912–16). Nobel prize for literature 1917

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Example Sentences

“People were rushing things a little bit,” says Klaus Pontoppidan, JWST’s project scientist at STScI.

From Scientific American • Sep. 14, 2022

Over the next few days, astronomers will do intricate calculations to figure out just how old those galaxies are, project scientist Klaus Pontoppidan said last month.

From Washington Times • Jul. 11, 2022

As Klaus Pontoppidan, an astronomer with the Space Telescope Science Institute, said at a recent news conference: “The telescope was built to answer questions we didn’t know we had.”

From New York Times • Dec. 20, 2021

“We don’t want to get to the end of the year, and then run out of observations,” Pontoppidan says.

From The Verge • Dec. 20, 2021

Of course the worthy bishop of Bergen, Pontoppidan, has something to tell us about mermaids in his part of the world.

From Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained by Lee, H. W. (Henry William)