How to Use physicist in a Sentence

physicist

noun
  • Lee and his schoolmate Zhu Guangya were the two physicists in the group.
    Yangyang Cheng, NPR, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Geng isn’t the only physicist to make the list, either.
    Alex Knapp, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Sakharov, of course, was one of the outstanding physicists of his age.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The Edge of Space-Time is not only for physicists or science nerds.
    Colleen Hamilton, Them, 25 July 2024
  • The other is just for the physicists, or perhaps for players of the video game Portal.
    Jennifer Ouellette and Sean M. Carroll, Ars Technica, 24 Nov. 2023
  • Last year, superheroes lost out at the box office to a doll, a plumber, and even a physicist.
    Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 25 July 2024
  • But physicists offer two ways of thinking about why the trick works.
    Quanta Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Us physicists like it when all of our theories line up and agree on the nature of the Universe.
    Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 23 May 2024
  • But monism was declared a heresy, first by the medieval Church and second, in Päs’s telling, by physicist Niels Bohr.
    Amy Brady, Scientific American, 12 Dec. 2022
  • The day was founded in 1988 by physicist Larry Shaw as a time to celebrate all things Pi.
    Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 14 Mar. 2023
  • In 1999, a Danish physicist named Lene Hau did the unthinkable.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 16 Aug. 2022
  • The physicist Craig Kletzing’s life took him far from his childhood home.
    Graham Womack, Sacramento Bee, 25 Jan. 2024
  • To test the strong nuclear force, physicists turned to the helium-4 nucleus, which has two protons and two neutrons.
    Katie McCormick, Quanta Magazine, 12 June 2023
  • Stevens, a physicist, was a prolific inventor with more than 30 patents to his name.
    IEEE Spectrum, 30 Dec. 2023
  • But in the 1960s, quantum theory failed physicists once again.
    Quanta Magazine, 23 May 2024
  • The physicist, reclining in an oxblood Eames lounge chair, offered that the hippies had saved physics, to murmurs of assent.
    Joseph Bernstein, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek explores the secrets of the cosmos.
    Frank Wilczek, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2023
  • To that point, Taranto pulls a useful metaphor out of Helen’s status as a quantum physicist.
    Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Prof Morawska is a physicist who has been working on air quality for more than twenty years.
    Laurie Winkless, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Her mother was the daughter of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Max Born.
    Jim Farber, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2022
  • But even as the first protons shot across it, physicists were itching to build something even more powerful.
    Samia Bouzid, Scientific American, 8 Aug. 2024
  • That sentence has physicists wondering when NSF will go forward with two major projects that must be built at the pole.
    Byadrian Cho, science.org, 22 June 2023
  • Many physicists realized that the genie was out of the bottle and recognized this mistrust—or shared it.
    Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Ars Technica, 23 Apr. 2023
  • Some physicists and philosophers have taken the statement at face value.
    Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 7 July 2023
  • Half Life Of course, that’s just an alpha decay, which physicists can already detect.
    The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Jess Wade is a physicist and a British Empire Medal recipient.
    Jason Hahn, Peoplemag, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Alicia and Bobby's father was a physicist who helped Oppenheimer build the bomb.
    Paul Thompson, Chron, 6 Dec. 2022
  • God’s Number In the 1990s, physicists turned away from treating plasmas as fluids, which had turned out to be too simplistic.
    Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 15 May 2023
  • Kreis, a physicist, is a member of DHL’s board of managing directors.
    Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Future physics and chemistry prizes, a physicist joked, would inevitably be awarded to advances in machine learning.
    Dan Garisto, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2024

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