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physicist

[ fiz-uh-sist ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

physicist

/ ˈfɪzɪsɪst /

First recorded in 1710–20; physic(s) + -ist

Obama is widely believed to tap an ex-physicist who cuts military waste like a laser to become the next secretary of defense.

The renowned theoretical physicist has for years been a proponent of real-life, NASA-led interstellar travel.

Even there, the answer is no, as physicist John Baez explains in detail.

Demicheli also had been a physicist but had switched to oncology research after his wife died of Hodgkin lymphoma in 1976.

Lawrence M. Krauss, a physicist and cosmologist, is Director of the Origins Project at Arizona State University.

No, the physicist wants to understand those connections of cause and effect as necessary ones.

The psychologist's problem of explanation is in one way entirely different from that of the physicist.

This is a statement which no present-day physicist would dispute.

I have now to note a resemblance of some interest to the physicist, and of a more settled character than any hitherto observed.

Nor does the physicist find the laws of mechanics holding good one day and not the next.

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