Ruska

American  

[ruhs-kuh, roos-kah] / ˈrʌs kə, ˈrʊs kɑ /

noun

1. Ernst (August Friedrich) 1906–88, German physicist and electrical engineer: developed electron microscope; Nobel Prize 1986.

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Ruska Scientific  

/ rŭs′kə /

1. German electrical engineer who in 1931 developed the world's first electron microscope, which he continued to improve in subsequent work. For this work he shared with German physicist Gerd Binnig and Swiss physicist Heinrich Rohrer the 1986 Nobel Prize for physics.

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Example Sentences

Greg Ruska and Allison Schroeder’s script has one pretty good twist, and Harper apparently had a decent budget to work with, judging by the diverse European locations.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 18, 2023

At trial, Jews who escaped from Rava Ruska testified against Osidach.

From Washington Post • Feb. 3, 2023

The fighting for Ruska Lozova devastated the village that sits in a fold cut by the Lozovenka River through rolling hills north of Kharkiv.

From Reuters • May 15, 2022

One of the villages is Ruska Lozova, where BBC correspondent Quentin Sommerville and cameraman Darren Conway met locals who have been surviving with no power, water or means of communication.

From BBC • May 11, 2022

The situation at Lemberg is evidently precarious, as General von Mackensen today seized the railway between Lemberg and Rawa Ruska, which is the main line of travel northward.

From New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915 by Various