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

And while he boasts of his strong aesthetic sense—trained as a physicist, he left the field in the 1970s “nauseated” by the “hideously ugly” ideas then coming into vogue—his eye is suspect.

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Nuclear physicists used IBM's quantum computers to perform the largest digital quantum simulation ever completed.

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As I mentioned at the opening of the program, you’re an epidemiologist with Johns Hopkins, in contrast with our other guests, who are physicists.

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Shaw, Citadel — all of them hired physicists, bought supercomputers and started hunting for meaningless correlations that somehow made money.

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LeCun, who’s said he’s always been interested in physics, mostly worked with physicists at Bell and read a number of physics textbooks.

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