physicist

[ fiz-uh-sist ]

/ ˈfɪz ə sɪst /

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noun

a scientist who specializes in physics.

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Origin of physicist

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

Words nearby physicist

physicals, physician, physician's assistant, physician, heal thyself, physicianship, physicist, physicochemical, physics, physics model, physio, physio-

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Even there, the answer is no, as physicist John Baez explains in detail.
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Demicheli also had been a physicist but had switched to oncology research after his wife died of Hodgkin lymphoma in 1976.
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Lawrence M. Krauss, a physicist and cosmologist, is Director of the Origins Project at Arizona State University.
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First questioner stood up and said he felt cheated because he had come to hear a physicist in a wheelchair.
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As a cook, you are a chemist and you are a physicist and you are a cultural historian all at once.
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Harris' manner was disarming, and the physicist felt more at ease.
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It is all symbolic, and as a symbol the physicist leaves it.
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My desire is to criticise politely, and hence I refrain from characterising this sentence as a physicist should.
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The opinion of a man of science like Professor Lodge is of great weight, though he is a physicist and not a doctor.
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This therefore is one reason why the physicist can not do without mathematics; it furnishes him the only language he can speak.
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British Dictionary definitions for physicist

physicist

/ (ˈfɪzɪsɪst) /

noun

a person versed in or studying physics

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