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Hess   /hɛs/   Listen
Hess

noun
1.
English pianist (1890-1965).  Synonym: Dame Myra Hess.
2.
Swiss physiologist noted for studies of the brain (1881-1973).  Synonyms: Walter Hess, Walter Rudolf Hess.
3.
Nazi leader who in 1941 flew a solo flight to Scotland in an apparent attempt to negotiate a peace treaty with Great Britain but was imprisoned for life (1894-1987).  Synonyms: Rudolf Hess, Walther Richard Rudolf Hess.
4.
United States physicist (born in Austria) who was a discoverer of cosmic radiation (1883-1964).  Synonyms: Victor Franz Hess, Victor Hess.






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"Hess" Quotes from Famous Books



... was annoyed is to put it with extraordinary moderation, and from that moment the fight on Bakouninism, anarchism, and terrorism developed to a white heat. Immediately after the adjournment of the congress, Moritz Hess, a close friend of Marx and a delegate to the congress, published in the Reveil of Paris what he called "the secret history" of the congress, in which he declared that "between the collectivists of the International and the Russian communists [meaning the Bakouninists] there ...
— Violence and the Labor Movement • Robert Hunter



Words linked to "Hess" :   piano player, physiologist, pianist, German Nazi, nazi, physicist



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