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geophysicist

American  
[jee-oh-fiz-uh-sist] / ˌdʒi oʊˈfɪz ə sɪst /

noun

  1. a specialist in or student of geophysics.


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Ms. Chow is a Cambridge-educated geophysicist who turned to politics after the devastating 2008 Sichuan earthquake, which killed almost 70,000 people.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

"We must understand how such large quantities of magma can accumulate to understand how giant caldera eruptions occur," says Kobe University geophysicist Nobukazu Seama.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026

Two who learned it the hard way are Peter Hotez, an eminent vaccinologist affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine, and Michael E. Mann, a climatologist and geophysicist at the University of Pennsylvania.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2025

The first set of remains at the new site were discovered in May by geophysicist Matt Peace, on land owned by Northwood Cemetery.

From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2025

It finally fell to two men from Cambridge University, a geophysicist named Drummond Matthews and a graduate student of his named Fred Vine, to draw all the strands together.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

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