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Algorithms such as neural networks excel in sifting signal from background, says Pushpalatha Bhat, a physicist at Fermilab.
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Using those number, David Wright, a physicist at the Union of Concerned Scientists, calculated that the missile could have traveled more than 4000 miles if it was fired at a normal-that is, less steep-trajectory.
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World renowned physicist Steven Hawking said that President Donald Trump's decision to quit the Paris Climate Agreement could have catastrophic consequences for planet Earth.
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Its announcers plan to have a solar physicist nearby to explain the plasma activity the crowd may potentially see, like sunspots, solar prominences and coronal mass ejections.
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Bob Gilliam, a medical physicist who works at Research Medical said that with the new Gamma Knife, treatments that used to take four hours will now take one.
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Mr. Thacker, like many aspiring physicists and mathematicians in the 1960s, was drawn to the emerging discipline of computing.
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Not knowing what's behind quantum entanglement didn't stop Jian-Wei Pan, a physicist at the University of Science and Technology of China in Shanghai, from rocketing it into space.
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East Germany’s collapse paved the way to power for Merkel, an East Berlin physicist who joined the CDU and was recruited by Kohl for his post-unity cabinet.
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First Known Use of physicist
circa 1840
PHYSICIST Defined for English Language Learners
physicist
playDefinition of physicist for English Language Learners
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: a scientist who studies or is a specialist in physics
PHYSICIST Defined for Kids
physicist
playDefinition of physicist for Students
: a person specializing in physics
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