physicist

noun

phys·i·cist ˈfi-zə-sist

ˈfiz-sist

: a specialist in physics

archaic : a person skilled in natural science

Examples of physicist in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web To that point, Taranto pulls a useful metaphor out of Helen’s status as a quantum physicist. —

Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023 Over the next decades, other astronomers and physicists joined and competed in the quest to measure the cosmic microwave background at different frequencies and to fill in its electromagnetic spectrum. —

Dennis Overbye Hiroko Masuike, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2023 So the physicists and their research team took bottle flipping into the laboratory. —

Elise Cutts, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2023 Another one is in Ireland as a physicist or something. —

The Editors, Vulture, 1 Sep. 2023 The University of Rochester is investigating the work of Ranga Dias, a physicist who claimed to have made progress toward superconductivity at room temperature. —

Nidhi Subbaraman, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2023 The Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. —

Becky Meloan, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2023 John Reagan, a theoretical physicist specializing in black holes, told Space.com. —

Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 21 Aug. 2023 In the 100-plus years since, physicists and mathematicians have explored the properties of these enigmatic objects from the perspective of both theory and experiment. —

Steve Nadis, Quanta Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023 See More

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