Guericke

[ gair-uh-kee, -kuh, gwair-; German gy-ri-kuh ]

noun

1. Ot·to von [awt, -oh-f, uh, n], 1602–86, German physicist.

Guericke

/ ˈɡeːrikə /

noun

1. GuerickeOtto von16021686MGermanSCIENCE: physicist Otto von. 1602–86, German physicist: invented the air pump (1650) and demonstrated the power of a vacuum with the Magdeburg hemispheres

Example Sentences

“It is just too hard to believe” at first, says Sabel of Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg and editor-in-chief of Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience.

From Science Magazine

It hosts the Otto von Guericke University and has space for a new plant in the Eulenberg industrial area in the southwest.

From Reuters

Whereas von Guericke’s pump needed two strong men to operate it, their design could be operated with reasonable ease by one man.

From Literature

In 1654 in Regensburg, and then again in 1656 in Magdeburg, Otto von Guericke evacuated the air from a copper sphere with an air pump.

From Literature

Schott reported not only Berti’s original experiments in Rome but also von Guericke’s construction of a vacuum pump.

From Literature