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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.


Ruska Scientific  
/ rŭskə /
  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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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

Soldiers in Ruska Lozova say the unit has about 1,800 soldiers.

From Washington Post • Jun. 3, 2022

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

The village of Ruska Lozova stands at the centre of the turn in Ukraine's response to Russian aggression.

From BBC • May 11, 2022

In the evening the enemy was thrown back behind the high road to Zolkiew, north of Lemberg and Rawa Ruska.

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

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