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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Shortly thereafter three more physicists — Tom Kibble, of Imperial College London; Carl Hagen, of the University of Rochester; and Gerald Guralnik, of Brown University — chimed in.
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Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2024
Childhood friends and physicists Abby (Melissa McCarthy) and Erin (Kristen Wiig) team with Egon-esque engineer Holtzmann (Kate McKinnon) and subway worker Patty (Leslie Jones) to prevent a ghostly apocalypse in the Big Apple.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2024
The late British physicist John Latham had already proposed in 1990 to use salt crystals from evaporated seawater instead.
—Sabrina Weiss, WIRED, 20 Mar. 2024
But in Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges From the Cosmic Ocean, theoretical physicist and science communicator Matt Strassler doesn’t flinch in the face of the universe.
—Isaac Schultz / Gizmodo, Quartz, 19 Mar. 2024
But physicists offer two ways of thinking about why the trick works.
—Quanta Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024
The research team, including physicists at Queen Mary University of London, achieved this by taking advantage of how quantum interference alters the flow of current in single molecules.
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 Mar. 2024
Prof Morawska is a physicist who has been working on air quality for more than twenty years.
—Laurie Winkless, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
The aborted muon collider effort was more popular with accelerator experts than particle physicists, says Diktys Stratakis, an accelerator physicist at Fermilab who took part in it.
—Byadrian Cho, science.org, 28 Mar. 2024
Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2024
Childhood friends and physicists Abby (Melissa McCarthy) and Erin (Kristen Wiig) team with Egon-esque engineer Holtzmann (Kate McKinnon) and subway worker Patty (Leslie Jones) to prevent a ghostly apocalypse in the Big Apple.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2024
The late British physicist John Latham had already proposed in 1990 to use salt crystals from evaporated seawater instead.
—Sabrina Weiss, WIRED, 20 Mar. 2024
But in Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges From the Cosmic Ocean, theoretical physicist and science communicator Matt Strassler doesn’t flinch in the face of the universe.
—Isaac Schultz / Gizmodo, Quartz, 19 Mar. 2024
But physicists offer two ways of thinking about why the trick works.
—Quanta Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024
The research team, including physicists at Queen Mary University of London, achieved this by taking advantage of how quantum interference alters the flow of current in single molecules.
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 Mar. 2024
Prof Morawska is a physicist who has been working on air quality for more than twenty years.
—Laurie Winkless, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
The aborted muon collider effort was more popular with accelerator experts than particle physicists, says Diktys Stratakis, an accelerator physicist at Fermilab who took part in it.
—Byadrian Cho, science.org, 28 Mar. 2024
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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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