GODDARD

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• GODDARD (noun)
  The noun GODDARD has 1 sense:

1. United States physicist who developed the first successful liquid-fueled rocket (1882-1945)

  Familiarity information: GODDARD used as a noun is very rare.

• GODDARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States physicist who developed the first successful liquid-fueled rocket (1882-1945)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Goddard; Robert Hutchings Goddard

Instance hypernyms:

physicist (a scientist trained in physics)

 Context examples 

Some time afterwards it was, I think Mrs. Goddard would be very much surprized if she knew what had happened.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Smith is lead author of a paper on this research, along with co-authors from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

(Vitamin B3 might have been made in space, delivered to Earth by meteorites, NASA)

The Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer, provided by Goddard, will measure the composition and isotopes of atomic particles.

(Mars Mission Spacecraft Enters Orbit around Red Planet, NASA)

Nitrogen oxides are one set of several gases that contribute to recycling OH back into the atmosphere, according to Julie Nicely at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

(Greenhouse Gas ‘Detergent’ Recycles Itself in Atmosphere, NASA)

"Planets have a bow shock the same way a supersonic jet does," said Vadim Uritsky at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

(Messenger spots giant space weather effects at Mercury, NASA)

"We are not supposed to be seeing this at all," said Qing Liang, an atmospheric scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and lead author of the study.

(Ozone-depleting compound persists, NASA)

At NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, an analysis was conducted using NASA's Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM (IMERG) data generated during the period from January 17 to 25, 2018.

(France's Flooding Rains Examined by NASA’s IMERG, NASA)

Following the finding of that first crater, Joe MacGregor, a glaciologist with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, checked topographic maps of the rock beneath Greenland’s ice for signs of other craters.

(NASA Finds Possible Second Impact Crater Under Greenland Ice, NASA)

“CFCs have lifetimes from 50 to 100 years, so they linger in the atmosphere for a very long time,” said Anne Douglass, a fellow atmospheric scientist at Goddard and the study’s co-author.

(First Direct Proof of Ozone Hole Recovery Due to Chemicals Ban, NASA)

Mars used to be a wet planet with a thick atmosphere, said Gina DiBraccio, space physicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and project scientist for the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, or MAVEN mission.

(The ice giant Uranus appears to be losing a bit of its atmosphere to space, NASA)