rocket scientist
noun
: a person who designs or builds rockets
also
: an unusually smart person
You don't have to be a rocket scientist to understand the instructions.
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Malina, a leading rocket scientist at Caltech’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory by 1946, gave it all up in the mid-’50s to make kinetic art.
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Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 20 Sep. 2024
In it, LeBlanc’s Joey moved from New York to L.A. to pursue his acting career in Hollywood, reuniting with his older sister Gina, played by The Sopranos alum Drea de Matteo, and moving in with Gina’s genius son Michael (future Royal Pains star Paolo Costanzo), who is literally a rocket scientist.
—Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 9 Sep. 2024
Here’s what to know A real-life rocket scientist puts career on hold to sail in the Olympics
TikTok’s survival is at stake in all-out fight against US ban
‘Journey of Memories’ art exhibition makes the rounds in CT.
—Hartford Courant, 28 July 2024
Its participants were the rocket scientist and double agent Michael Armstrong (Paul Newman) battling his chaperone behind the Iron Curtain, East German security officer Hermann Gromek (Wolfgang Kieling), with the farmer’s wife (Carolyn Conwell) offering Armstrong an assist.
—Vikram Murthi, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024
In 2016, Nolin returned to her Baywatch roots, reprising the role of Neely Capshaw — now an Astro-X rocket scientist — for Sharknado: The 4th Awakens.
—Kathleen Perricone, EW.com, 20 Mar. 2024
He was assigned to be a sort of morale officer, attached to the rocket scientist Wernher von Braun, whom the United States hoped would work for the military after the war.
—Clay Risen, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2024
One of the most intriguing of these is Impulse Space, a company founded two years ago by rocket scientist Tom Mueller, who was a founding employee at SpaceX before leaving in 2020.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 13 Nov. 2023
But any quiet plans Indy might have for his golden years fly out the window with the appearance of two characters: Jürgen Voller (Mads Mikkelsen), a German rocket scientist now working on the U.S. space program, and Helena Shaw (Phoebe Waller-Bridge), the daughter of Basil and Indy’s goddaughter.
—Michael O'Sullivan, Anchorage Daily News, 27 June 2023
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Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 20 Sep. 2024
In it, LeBlanc’s Joey moved from New York to L.A. to pursue his acting career in Hollywood, reuniting with his older sister Gina, played by The Sopranos alum Drea de Matteo, and moving in with Gina’s genius son Michael (future Royal Pains star Paolo Costanzo), who is literally a rocket scientist.
—Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 9 Sep. 2024
Here’s what to know A real-life rocket scientist puts career on hold to sail in the Olympics
TikTok’s survival is at stake in all-out fight against US ban
‘Journey of Memories’ art exhibition makes the rounds in CT.
—Hartford Courant, 28 July 2024
Its participants were the rocket scientist and double agent Michael Armstrong (Paul Newman) battling his chaperone behind the Iron Curtain, East German security officer Hermann Gromek (Wolfgang Kieling), with the farmer’s wife (Carolyn Conwell) offering Armstrong an assist.
—Vikram Murthi, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024
In 2016, Nolin returned to her Baywatch roots, reprising the role of Neely Capshaw — now an Astro-X rocket scientist — for Sharknado: The 4th Awakens.
—Kathleen Perricone, EW.com, 20 Mar. 2024
He was assigned to be a sort of morale officer, attached to the rocket scientist Wernher von Braun, whom the United States hoped would work for the military after the war.
—Clay Risen, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2024
One of the most intriguing of these is Impulse Space, a company founded two years ago by rocket scientist Tom Mueller, who was a founding employee at SpaceX before leaving in 2020.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 13 Nov. 2023
But any quiet plans Indy might have for his golden years fly out the window with the appearance of two characters: Jürgen Voller (Mads Mikkelsen), a German rocket scientist now working on the U.S. space program, and Helena Shaw (Phoebe Waller-Bridge), the daughter of Basil and Indy’s goddaughter.
—Michael O'Sullivan, Anchorage Daily News, 27 June 2023
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