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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Led by physicist and machine learning researcher Dr. Hidenori Tanaka, the group is partnering with academic collaborators at Harvard, Stanford and Princeton to explore what happens inside large-scale AI systems.
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Kolawole Samuel Adebayo, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
Jennifer lives in Baltimore with her spouse, physicist Sean M. Carroll, and their two cats, Ariel and Caliban.
—ArsTechnica, 27 Apr. 2025
The equation allows physicists to calculate how quantities such as momentum and thermal conductivity in the fluid evolve without painstakingly considering every microscopic collision.
—Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 14 Apr. 2025
Theodore von Kármán, a Hungarian American engineer and physicist and cofounder of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was among the first to attempt to describe the altitude at which aeronautics becomes astronautics.
—Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 13 Apr. 2025
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Kolawole Samuel Adebayo, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
Jennifer lives in Baltimore with her spouse, physicist Sean M. Carroll, and their two cats, Ariel and Caliban.
—ArsTechnica, 27 Apr. 2025
The equation allows physicists to calculate how quantities such as momentum and thermal conductivity in the fluid evolve without painstakingly considering every microscopic collision.
—Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 14 Apr. 2025
Theodore von Kármán, a Hungarian American engineer and physicist and cofounder of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was among the first to attempt to describe the altitude at which aeronautics becomes astronautics.
—Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 13 Apr. 2025
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“Physicist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/physicist. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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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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