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Blackett

[ blak-it ]

noun

  1. Patrick Maynard Stuart, 1897–1974, English physicist: Nobel Prize 1948.


Blackett

/ ˈblækɪt /

noun

  1. BlackettPatrick Maynard Stuart18971974MEnglishSCIENCE: physicist Patrick Maynard Stuart , Baron. 1897–1974, English physicist, noted for his work on cosmic radiation and his discovery of the positron. Nobel prize for physics 1948


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Mr. Blackett was the first colliery owner in the North who took an active interest in the locomotive.

Several years elapsed before Mr. Blackett took any further steps to carry out his idea.

Notwithstanding, however, the comparative failure of this second locomotive, Mr. Blackett persevered with his experiments.

Sympathy is of the mind as well as the heart, and Mrs. Blackett's world and mine were one from the moment we met.

But Mrs. Blackett tried to say that she couldn't sing as she used, and perhaps William wouldn't feel like it.

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