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- adjective Of or pertaining to Henry Lucas (c.1610-1663), Member of Parliament for Cambridge University and founder of the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics.
Etymologies
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Currently the director of research at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Cambridge, Hawking also founded the university's Centre for Theoretical Cosmology and only recently retired from a post known as the Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics, a title once held by Isaac Newton.
Reuters: Top News 2012
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Currently the director of research at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Cambridge, Hawking also founded the university's Centre for Theoretical Cosmology and only recently retired from a post known as the Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics, a title once held by Isaac Newton.
unknown title 2012
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Currently the director of research at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Cambridge, Hawking also founded the university's Centre for Theoretical Cosmology and only recently retired from a post known as the Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics, a title once held by Isaac Newton.
unknown title 2012
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Professor Hawking, who is Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University and the author of A Brief History of Time ', is to remain in hospital for treatment for his illness, believed to be a viral infection.
Archive 2009-04-01 Dungeekin 2009
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Professor Hawking, who is Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University and the author of A Brief History of Time ', is to remain in hospital for treatment for his illness, believed to be a viral infection.
Hawking 'Comfortable' in Hospital Dungeekin 2009
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But convoluted symbolism and half-read theology is insufferably Lucasian, after all.
Up, George Lucas, the spirit of adventure, and the myth of the fallen angel 2009
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Ada and Lady Byron moved in elite London society, and there she met Charles Babbage, Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge.
Ada Lovelace 2009
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Another notable signer is Stephen Hawking, who holds the Lucasian Professorship in Mathematics at Cambridge University, the same professorship Isaac Newton held.
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Much as I love him, I thought Ford was entirely too old for the part, and that another movie would only be a cheap attempt to cash in on the success of the first three in typical Lucasian fashion.
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Jika pensiun tahun depan, Hawking akan bergelar Emeritus Lucasian Professor of Mathematics.
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