How to Use physicist in a Sentence

physicist

noun

• Geng isn’t the only physicist to make the list, either.
  — Alex Knapp, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• Sakharov, of course, was one of the outstanding physicists of his age.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 29 Feb. 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
• 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
• The physicist Craig Kletzing’s life took him far from his childhood home.
  — Graham Womack, Sacramento Bee, 25 Jan. 2024
• 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
• Stevens, a physicist, was a prolific inventor with more than 30 patents to his name.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Dec. 2023
• The physicist, reclining in an oxblood Eames lounge chair, offered that the hippies had saved physics, to murmurs of assent.
  — Joseph Bernstein, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2023
• Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek explores the secrets of the cosmos.
  — Frank Wilczek, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2023
• To that point, Taranto pulls a useful metaphor out of Helen’s status as a quantum physicist.
  — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
• That sentence has physicists wondering when NSF will go forward with two major projects that must be built at the pole.
  — Byadrian Cho, science.org, 22 June 2023
• Many physicists realized that the genie was out of the bottle and recognized this mistrust—or shared it.
  — Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Ars Technica, 23 Apr. 2023
• Some physicists and philosophers have taken the statement at face value.
  — Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 7 July 2023
• Half Life Of course, that’s just an alpha decay, which physicists can already detect.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 27 Feb. 2024
• God’s Number In the 1990s, physicists turned away from treating plasmas as fluids, which had turned out to be too simplistic.
  — Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 15 May 2023
• One need not be physicist or physician to find Levitt’s book mind-broadening and thought-provoking.
  — Nina MacLaughlin, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2023
• Because the regular version that so many physicists know and love doesn’t quite fit nicely into the quantum world.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 4 May 2023
• Named after a French physicist, the pendulum is suspended from a 60-foot cable and demonstrates the rotation of the earth.
  — Vicki Salemi, Chron, 18 Mar. 2023
• When a physicist considers the fate of this falling cockroach, their first step is to change the problem into something simpler.
  — WIRED, 10 Nov. 2023
• Racing drone pilot and physicist Gabriel Kocher, PhD, helped develop the custom build.
  — Michelle Bruton, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
• His theories upended the system that physicists had used to describe the world since Newton.
  — Marcia Bartusiak, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2024
• Particle physicists announced that there is strong evidence of a fifth force of nature.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
• In the years since, physicists have found other ways to rewrite quantum mechanics based on real numbers.
  — Marc-Olivier Renou, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2023
• One of his interviewees is a physicist studying the collisions of dark matter.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 4 May 2023
• There is even a separate module on Robert Oppenheimer, the Jewish physicist who created the first atom bomb.
  — Judith Segaloff, Sun Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2024
• With this in mind, Faraday, an English physicist, tried his own experiment.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2023
• There is instead a shape-shifting maelstrom of quarks, and physicists can map quark distribution to estimate the proton’s size.
  — Anashe Bandari, Scientific American, 16 Mar. 2023
• The idea that a particle could simply appear on the other side of an energy barrier traces back to German physicist Friedrich Hund.
  — Elise Cutts, Scientific American, 4 Apr. 2023
• New papers in physics are posted online faster than any physicist can read them; a chatbot that can retain and synthesize all that knowledge can’t come soon enough.
  — James Somers, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2023
• So in 1991, as construction ramped up, a physicist named Ed Temple replaced my father as project director.
  — Byadrian Cho, science.org, 4 May 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024