physicist
noun
phys·i·cist
ˈfi-zə-sist 
ˈfiz-sist
1
: a specialist in physics
2
archaic
: a person skilled in natural science
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For decades, physicists have chased the goal of bringing together the building blocks of antimatter and watching them form something stable.
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Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 11 Apr. 2026
By carefully measuring the energy and momentum of muons produced in about 100 million collisions thought to have created W bosons, the physicists arrived at their new mass estimate.
—Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 10 Apr. 2026
Alatáriel Marie There have been many famous Maries through history, but perhaps the most heroic of them all was Marie Curie, a Polish-French physicist and chemist, who conducted groundbreaking, Nobel Prize winning research on radioactivity.
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While philosophers may lose sleep over it, physicists don’t have to, because cosmic inflation solves it.
—Big Think, 9 Apr. 2026
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Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 11 Apr. 2026
By carefully measuring the energy and momentum of muons produced in about 100 million collisions thought to have created W bosons, the physicists arrived at their new mass estimate.
—Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 10 Apr. 2026
Alatáriel Marie There have been many famous Maries through history, but perhaps the most heroic of them all was Marie Curie, a Polish-French physicist and chemist, who conducted groundbreaking, Nobel Prize winning research on radioactivity.
—Taylor Grothe, Parents, 10 Apr. 2026
While philosophers may lose sleep over it, physicists don’t have to, because cosmic inflation solves it.
—Big Think, 9 Apr. 2026
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“Physicist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/physicist. Accessed 13 Apr. 2026.
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physicist
noun
phys·i·cist
ˈfiz-(ə-)səst
: a specialist in physics
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physicist
noun
phys·i·cist
ˈfiz-(ə-)səst
: a specialist in physics
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