physicist

[ fiz-uh-sist ]

noun

1. a scientist who specializes in physics. physics.

physicist

/ ˈfɪzɪsɪst /

noun

1. a person versed in or studying physics

Word History and Origins

Origin of physicist¹

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

Example Sentences

A physicist turned neuroscientist, Koulakov is working to understand how humans perceive odors and to classify millions of volatile molecules by their “smellable” properties.

From Nautilus

Varghese Mathai is a physicist at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst who studies the flow of fluids and gases.

From Washington Post

He’s a physicist at Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany.

From Science News For Students

In the early 1980s, as physicists investigated how space might have started—and stopped—inflating, an unsettling picture emerged.

From Nautilus

In the early 1980s, as physicists investigated how space might have started — and stopped — inflating, an unsettling picture emerged.

From Quanta Magazine

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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