Schaffer
Proper noun
Meaning
Schaffer (plural Schaffers)
A surname.
Examples
This won't look so good in my obituary," Schaffer said dolefully. There was a perceptible edge of strain under the lightly-spoken words."Gave his life for his country in a ladies' lavatory in Upper Bavaria.
As Shapin and Schaffer describe, “it became clear that unless the phenomenon could be produced in England with one of the two pumps available, then no one in England would accept the claims Huygens had made, or his competence in working the pump”.
As historian of science Simon Schaffer writes, it "has been seen as a branch of physics, or chemistry, or natural philosophy, or some highly idiosyncratic version of Priestley's own invention".
Application of Theory to Hydroplane Design, RL Schaffer, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Paper Number 89-1532-CP, 1989.
See Schaffer, 162–70 for a historiographical analysis.
But Schaffer said there is still work to be done.