Word: isaac
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...late 1960s, when Nobel-prizewinning French physicist Pierre-Billes de Gennes began studying liquid crystals, a form with properties of both liquids and solids, now used to create bright, clear displays for TVs and other devices. On awarding the 1991 Nobel to De Gennes, the jury called him the "Isaac Newton of our time." He was 74 and died of unknown causes...
...strengthen ties with industry and bring more inventions to the marketplace, Harvard has hired Isaac T. Kohlberg to reorganize its historically lethargic tech transfer office...
...kids aren’t alright. It’s a point many jaded indie rockers are making today, and no one does it better than Isaac Brock. He’s been leading Modest Mouse and damaged American youth on a path through a broken landscape of isolation, alienation, and despair since 1996’s “This is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About,” and the road continues through their latest outing, “We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank...
...Fuck you, Dad. I’ve got bigger plans,” and the book’s underlying theme of familial tension.One short, the opener, skewers Abraham during a painfully awkward walk down the mountain after that Biblical tale of paternal betrayal, the Binding of Isaac. But however brilliant the set-up, Rich is most skillful in his dialogue. A jittery Abraham pleads to Isaac, “How about some Rocky Road? Chocolate? I’d get you some strawberry, but hey, your name’s Isaac, not Isaac-Marie—am I right...
...know personally I haven’t listened to them at all in the past few years,” said Isaac Ravishankara...