FRISCH

Frisch, Karl von Frisch

(noun) Austrian zoologist noted for his studies of honeybees (1886-1982)

Frisch, Ragnar Frisch, Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch

(noun) Norwegian economist noted for his work in econometrics (1895-1973)

Frisch, Otto Frisch, Otto Robert Frisch

(noun) British physicist (born in Austria) who with Lise Meitner recognized that Otto Hahn had produced a new kind of nuclear reaction which they named nuclear fission; Frisch described the explosive potential of a chain nuclear reaction (1904-1979)

Source: WordNet® 3.1



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Word of the Day

12 June 2025

RAREFACTION

(noun) a decrease in the density of something; “a sound wave causes periodic rarefactions in its medium”


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