physicist

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phys·i·cist | \ ˈfi-zə-sist

, ˈfiz-sist \

Definition of physicist

1 : a specialist in physics

2 archaic : a person skilled in natural science

Examples of physicist in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Quantum physicist Mario Krenn remembers sitting in a café in Vienna in early 2016, poring over computer printouts, trying to make sense of what MELVIN had found. — Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 2 July 2021 Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman, one of the commission’s more skeptical members, added his own appendix to their report, asking for greater transparency from NASA and a more realistic assessment of space travel’s risks. — Washington Post, 20 June 2021 The technology, invented by American physicist Chester Carlson in the 1940s, completely streamlined the animation process, and ultimately saved Disney’s beloved animation department. — Gia Yetikyel, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 June 2021 The one-page handwritten letter in German to Polish American physicist Ludwik Silberstein is dated Oct. 26, 1946. — NBC News, 22 May 2021 The one-page handwritten letter in German to Polish American physicist Ludwik Silberstein is dated Oct. 26, 1946. — CBS News, 22 May 2021 The one-page handwritten letter in German to Polish American physicist Ludwik Silberstein is dated Oct. 26, 1946. — Chron, 21 May 2021 Some have hypothesized that SN 1054 (as it is now known) was a new, rare type of supernova first described by a physicist some 40 years ago. — Jennifer Ouellette, Wired, 29 June 2021 Joanna Harper, a transwoman who worked as a medical physicist and transitioned in middle age, noticed a personal loss of running speed post-transition of around 10 percent. — Nicola Williams, National Review, 24 June 2021

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