physicist
- a scientist who specializes in physics.
Origin of physicist
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Contemporary Examples of physicist
Even there, the answer is no, as physicist John Baez explains in detail.
Dear NASA: Fuel-Free Rocket Thruster Is Literally Too Good to Be TrueMatthew R. Francis
August 4, 2014
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.
First questioner stood up and said he felt cheated because he had come to hear a physicist in a wheelchair.
As a cook, you are a chemist and you are a physicist and you are a cultural historian all at once.
Historical Examples of physicist
Maxwell's conclusions were adopted by scarcely a physicist in the world.
The Machinery of the UniverseAmos Emerson Dolbear
However, I think this is more in the line of a physicist or a biochemist.
The LeechPhillips Barbee
Harris' manner was disarming, and the physicist felt more at ease.
SecurityPoul William Anderson
"I'll try it," Cleveland answered, at a nod from the physicist.
TriplanetaryEdward Elmer Smith
You aren't enough of a physicist to oil robots in Vann Evaratt's lab!
Ministry of DisturbanceHenry Beam Piper
physicist
- a person versed in or studying physics
Word Origin and History for physicist
1836, from physics + -ist. Coined by the Rev. William Whewell (1794-1866), English polymath, to denote a "cultivator of physics" as opposed to a physician.
As we cannot use physician for a cultivator of physics, I have called him a physicist. We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I should incline to call him a Scientist. Thus we might say, that as an Artist is a Musician, Painter, or Poet, a Scientist is a Mathematician, Physicist, or Naturalist. [William Whewell, "The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences," London, 1840]