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
• Science emerges as a version of the pastoral, with the physicist as swain.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 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
• One bit of physics that produces this is called the Casimir effect, named for the Dutch physicist Hendrik Casimir.
  — Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 18 May 2022
• 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 | [e-mail], 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
• But this summer, a group of physicists in Canada argued (opens a new tab) that something more complex called self-interacting dark matter could.
  — Quanta Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024