Heymann
Proper noun
Meaning
Heymann (plural Heymanns)
A surname.
Phrases with the word
Examples
At a briefing on Wednesday morning, Dr. David Heymann, a former assistant WHO director-general and an American, said he was "very disappointed" at the US decision to exit the agency.
Eminent epidemiologist Professor David Heymann, of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said masks should be worn by “all people in a situation where no one can physically distance to prevent infection of others”.
Heymann declined to predict whether the virus will ultimately cause a pandemic, or worldwide outbreak.
The term was used in 1859 by German philosophers and frequent collaborators Moritz Lazarus and Heymann Steinthal in Zeitschrift für Völkerpsychologie und Sprachwissenschaft.
“It’s been the most careful political calculation,” former Deputy Attorney General Philip Heymann after leaving the DOJ in 1994 — “with absolutely sublime indifference to the real nature of the problem.”
Series tickets are on sale now through the Heymann Performing Arts Center.