physicist
noun
a scientist who specializes in physics.
physicists
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pluralof physicist.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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In 1959, physicists Yakir Aharonov and David Bohm predicted that a charged particle could be affected by magnetic flux even if it traveled entirely outside the region containing the magnetic field.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
At CERN's Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, physicists are recreating quark-gluon plasma to investigate the ingredients that filled the young universe.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
The result changes the usual way physicists think about the vacuum.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026
Wang grew up in New Mexico, where his parents worked as physicists at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the famous site of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer’s work on the Manhattan Project.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
In 1948 two Dutch physicists, Hendrick B. G. Casimir and Dik Polder, first realized that the zero-point energy can’t always be ignored.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
