Ruska

[ruhs-kuh, roos-kah]

noun

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

Ruska

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.

Example Sentences

As an angry orphan, Eve was taken in by Anjelica Huston’s Director, who runs a co-ed academy of fledgling mercenaries called the Ruska Roma.

From Los Angeles Times

He said the protest measures would affect traffic in both directions at crossings in Dorohusk and Hrebenne-Rawa Ruska, as well as outbound traffic through Korczowa.

From Reuters

The memorial’s website reports that as many as 3,500 Jews from Rava Ruska had already been sent to Belzec earlier in 1942 and that from Dec. 7-11, the city’s Jewish ghetto was liquidated.

From Seattle Times

Written in German, the letter addresses Leiber as “Dear friend,” and goes on to report that the Nazis were killing up to 6,000 Jews and Poles daily from Rava Ruska, a town in pre-war Poland that is today located in Ukraine, and transporting them to the Belzec death camp.

From Seattle Times

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