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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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.
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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
For thousands of years, the Earth has been generally slowing down, with the rate varying from time to time, said Agnew and Judah Levine, a physicist for the time and frequency division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
—CBS News, 27 Mar. 2024
Much of the work so far uses rubidium and cesium atoms, but the physicist Jeff Thompson at Princeton University prefers encoding the information in the nuclear spin states of metal atoms such as strontium and ytterbium, which have even longer coherence times.
—Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, 25 Mar. 2024
The idea of using the quantum states of neutral atoms for encoding information this way was proposed in the early 2000s by the Harvard physicist Mikhail Lukin and colleagues, and also by a group led by Ivan Deutsch of the University of New Mexico.
—Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, 25 Mar. 2024
Hong plays Jin Cheng, a genius particle physicist who as a student at Oxford was mentored by Professor Vera Ye — Ye Wenjie’s daughter.
—Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2024
The show begins in 1966, with a young astrophysicist named Ye Wenjie (Zine Tseng) watching in despair as her father — also a physicist — is beaten to death by Red Guards during the Chinese Communist Revolution.
—Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2024
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
For thousands of years, the Earth has been generally slowing down, with the rate varying from time to time, said Agnew and Judah Levine, a physicist for the time and frequency division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
—CBS News, 27 Mar. 2024
Much of the work so far uses rubidium and cesium atoms, but the physicist Jeff Thompson at Princeton University prefers encoding the information in the nuclear spin states of metal atoms such as strontium and ytterbium, which have even longer coherence times.
—Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, 25 Mar. 2024
The idea of using the quantum states of neutral atoms for encoding information this way was proposed in the early 2000s by the Harvard physicist Mikhail Lukin and colleagues, and also by a group led by Ivan Deutsch of the University of New Mexico.
—Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, 25 Mar. 2024
Hong plays Jin Cheng, a genius particle physicist who as a student at Oxford was mentored by Professor Vera Ye — Ye Wenjie’s daughter.
—Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2024
The show begins in 1966, with a young astrophysicist named Ye Wenjie (Zine Tseng) watching in despair as her father — also a physicist — is beaten to death by Red Guards during the Chinese Communist Revolution.
—Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2024
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First Known Use
1838, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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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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