physicist

[ fiz-uh-sist ]

/ ˈfɪz ə sɪst /

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noun

a scientist who specializes in physics.

Nearby words

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

Origin of physicist

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

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Examples from the Web for 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 True|Matthew R. Francis|August 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Demicheli also had been a physicist but had switched to oncology research after his wife died of Hodgkin lymphoma in 1976.
How Big Pharma Holds Back in the War on Cancer|ProPublica|April 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Lawrence M. Krauss, a physicist and cosmologist, is Director of the Origins Project at Arizona State University.
The New 'Cosmos' Reboot Marks a Promising New Era for Science|Lawrence M. Krauss|March 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
First questioner stood up and said he felt cheated because he had come to hear a physicist in a wheelchair.
Richard Dawkins: How I Write|Noah Charney|November 27, 2013|DAILY BEAST

As a cook, you are a chemist and you are a physicist and you are a cultural historian all at once.
It’s the End of the World Unless We All Start Cooking|Rachel Khong|April 23, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Harris' manner was disarming, and the physicist felt more at ease.
Security|Poul William Anderson
It is all symbolic, and as a symbol the physicist leaves it.
Autobiography of a YOGI|Paramhansa Yogananda
My desire is to criticise politely, and hence I refrain from characterising this sentence as a physicist should.
Life and Matter|Oliver Lodge
The opinion of a man of science like Professor Lodge is of great weight, though he is a physicist and not a doctor.
Mrs. Piper & the Society for Psychical Research|Michael Sage
This therefore is one reason why the physicist can not do without mathematics; it furnishes him the only language he can speak.
The Foundations of Science: Science and Hypothesis, The Value of Science, Science and Method|Henri Poincar

British Dictionary definitions for physicist

physicist

/ (ˈfɪzɪsɪst) /

noun

a person versed in or studying physics

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