How to Use physicist in a Sentence

physicist

noun

• In that way, the physicist's work and the poet's are the same.
  — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 18 May 2021
• Lee and his schoolmate Zhu Guangya were the two physicists in the group.
  — Yangyang Cheng, NPR, 5 Sep. 2024
• Geng isn’t the only physicist to make the list, either.
  — Alex Knapp, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• The three physicists shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for this achievement in 1956.
  — Jennifer Kite-Powell, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024
• Sakharov, of course, was one of the outstanding physicists of his age.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 29 Feb. 2024
• Science emerges as a version of the pastoral, with the physicist as swain.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
• The physicist Akira Hasegawa came up with the concept in the 1980s, based on his study of plasma around Jupiter.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN, 29 Nov. 2024
• The Edge of Space-Time is not only for physicists or science nerds.
  — Colleen Hamilton, Them, 25 July 2024
• The other is just for the physicists, or perhaps for players of the video game Portal.
  — Jennifer Ouellette and Sean M. Carroll, Ars Technica, 24 Nov. 2023
• Last year, superheroes lost out at the box office to a doll, a plumber, and even a physicist.
  — Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 25 July 2024
• But physicists offer two ways of thinking about why the trick works.
  — Quanta Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024
• One bit of physics that produces this is called the Casimir effect, named for the Dutch physicist Hendrik Casimir.
  — Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 18 May 2022
• More typically, the work of a physicist is in the writing.
  — James Gleick, The New York Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2021
• Us physicists like it when all of our theories line up and agree on the nature of the Universe.
  — Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 23 May 2024
• Wells was a novelist, not a physicist, but physics would soon catch up.
  — Matthew Pillsbury, Travel, 28 Dec. 2020
• But monism was declared a heresy, first by the medieval Church and second, in Päs’s telling, by physicist Niels Bohr.
  — Amy Brady, Scientific American, 12 Dec. 2022
• The day was founded in 1988 by physicist Larry Shaw as a time to celebrate all things Pi.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 14 Mar. 2023
• For many of these physicists, the study of engines and computers has become blurred.
  — Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2024
• Hawking was doubly so: a physicist whose gift was housed in a wrecked anatomy.
  — Samanth Subramanian, The New Republic, 6 Apr. 2021
• In 1999, a Danish physicist named Lene Hau did the unthinkable.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 16 Aug. 2022
• The physicist Craig Kletzing’s life took him far from his childhood home.
  — Graham Womack, Sacramento Bee, 25 Jan. 2024
• The retired physicist tackles the trail twice a week, even in the snow and ice, driving 180 miles round-trip from his home in Fairfax County.
  — Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2022
• Three years ago, the Italian physicist Guido Tonelli was in Sicily to give a talk about the origin of the universe.
  — Andrew Crumey, WSJ, 16 Apr. 2021
• To test the strong nuclear force, physicists turned to the helium-4 nucleus, which has two protons and two neutrons.
  — Katie McCormick, Quanta Magazine, 12 June 2023
• The first chairman of the group was Andrei Sakharov, the great physicist who became a great human-rights champion.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 26 Jan. 2022
• It’s written by a Black physicist who talks about the language of science with respect to the theory of the universe.
  — New York Times, 30 Sep. 2021
• Stevens, a physicist, was a prolific inventor with more than 30 patents to his name.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Dec. 2023
• Jess Wade has written over 1,000 biographies of women for Wikipedia, in between her work in the UK, as a physicist.
  — Jenny Singer, Glamour, 26 Jan. 2021
• In 1959, two physicists predicted another feature of relativistic motion: an object moving near the speed of light should also appear to be rotated.
  — ArsTechnica, 31 May 2025
• While quantum theory seems to allow it, physicists have had difficulty finding a mathematical description of a paraparticle that works.
  — Shalma Wegsman, Wired News, 25 May 2025