physicist
noun
phys·i·cist
ˈfi-zə-sist 
ˈfiz-sist
1
: a specialist in physics
2
archaic
: a person skilled in natural science
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Steven Dunbar, an engineering supervisor, David Farley, a physicist, and Jeff Kaskey, a businessman, fought over the city’s District 3 council seat.
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Kyle Martin, The Mercury News, 5 Nov. 2024
Vitaly, a former nuclear physicist and record holder in extreme cold-exposure training, makes his living as a construction worker on the fringes of Siberia, barely eking out a living.
—Will Tizard, Variety, 3 Nov. 2024
Graphs on Graphs In the mid-1980s, a Dutch physicist named Pieter Kasteleyn wanted to mathematically prove an assertion about how liquids flow throughout porous solids.
—Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 1 Nov. 2024
The university, of course, is a forward-looking institution, bent on producing the future’s finest physicists, astronomers, computer scientists and mechanical engineers.
—Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2024
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Kyle Martin, The Mercury News, 5 Nov. 2024
Vitaly, a former nuclear physicist and record holder in extreme cold-exposure training, makes his living as a construction worker on the fringes of Siberia, barely eking out a living.
—Will Tizard, Variety, 3 Nov. 2024
Graphs on Graphs In the mid-1980s, a Dutch physicist named Pieter Kasteleyn wanted to mathematically prove an assertion about how liquids flow throughout porous solids.
—Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 1 Nov. 2024
The university, of course, is a forward-looking institution, bent on producing the future’s finest physicists, astronomers, computer scientists and mechanical engineers.
—Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2024
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“Physicist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/physicist. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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physicist
noun
phys·i·cist
ˈfiz-(ə-)səst
: a specialist in physics
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physicist
noun
phys·i·cist
ˈfiz-(ə-)səst
: a specialist in physics
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