Sillanpää

[sil-lahn-pa]

noun

1. Frans Eemil 1888–1964, Finnish author: Nobel Prize 1939.

Sillanpää

/ ˈsillɑmpæː /

noun

1. Frans Eemil (frans ˈeːmil). 1888–1964, Finnish writer, noted for his novels Meek Heritage (1919) and The Maid Silja (1931): Nobel prize for literature 1939

Example Sentences

Some researchers, such as Mika Sillanpää, a physicist at Aalto University in Finland and a co-author of the second paper, wish to measure sensitive quantum effects but have been limited by the classical nature of their macroscopic measuring tools.

From Scientific American

By bringing quantum effects into the macroscopic realm—or, put another way, returning classical objects to their true quantum selves—Sillanpää hopes to investigate quantum gravity.

From Scientific American

The new developments, while exciting, are “not for mobile phones,” Sillanpää says dryly.

From Scientific American

Mika Sillanpää, a physicist at Aalto University in Finland and his colleagues took a different approach, manufacturing pairs of aluminum drum heads, or vibrating disks, about the width of a human hair onto a silicon chip.

From Science Magazine

“When we took the data, we had no idea if we were entangled or not,” Sillanpää says.

From Science Magazine