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Van Vleck

American  
[van vlek] / væn ˈvlɛk /

noun

  1. John H(asbrouck) 1899–1980, U.S. physicist: Nobel Prize 1977.


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After Haggerty and Crawford found the assembly tedious and confusing, they pawned it off on clubhouse co-manager Joe Van Vleck, who put together the new toy.

From Seattle Times Apr. 24, 2023

The conservative Van Vleck was unhappy about the direction that the United States — and with it physics — was going.

From Nature Sep. 17, 2018

Cattle graze on hay in a landscape that would normally be covered in green grass on the Van Vleck Ranch in Rancho Murieta, California, Feb. 12, 2014.

From Slate Feb. 12, 2015

Today, at 31, Robinson handles clients that run the gamut from start-up companies to Fortune 500 firms at Van Vleck Turner & Zaller, also in L.A.

From Time Oct. 8, 2014

Dr. W. F. Van Vleck, of Ohio, to whom I am indebted for some of the facts contained in this chapter, can beat the Davenport brothers at their own game.

From The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages by P. T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum

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