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physicist
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Noun physicist has 1 sense
- physicist(n = noun.person) Array - a scientist trained in physics; Array has particulars: acoustician, astronomer, stargazer, uranologist, biophysicist, nuclear physicist, charles hard townes, charles townes, townes, al-hasan ibn al-haytham, al-haytham, alhacen, alhazen, ibn al-haytham, anderson, phil anderson, philip anderson, philip warren anderson, appleton, edward appleton, sir edward victor appleton, archimedes, arrhenius, svante august arrhenius, amedeo avogadro, avogadro, bardeen, john bardeen, antoine henri becquerel, becquerel, henri becquerel, bernoulli, daniel bernoulli, boltzmann, ludwig boltzmann, bertram brockhouse, brockhouse, carnot, nicolas leonard sadi carnot, sadi carnot, cavendish, henry cavendish, charles, jacques alexandre cesar charles, jacques charles, charles augustin de coulomb, coulomb, crookes, sir william crookes, william crookes, curie, pierre curie, dalton, john dalton, dewar, sir james dewar, christian johann doppler, doppler, albert einstein, einstein, esaki, leo esaki, fahrenheit, gabriel daniel fahrenheit, faraday, michael faraday, fechner, gustav theodor fechner, foucault, jean bernard leon foucault, baron jean baptiste joseph fourier, fourier, jean baptiste joseph fourier, franck, james franck, augustin jean fresnel, fresnel, emil klaus julius fuchs, fuchs, klaus fuchs, dennis gabor, gabor, gamow, george gamow, gay-lussac, joseph louis gay-lussac, geiger, hans geiger, gilbert, william gilbert, goddard, robert hutchings goddard, hawking, stephen hawking, stephen william hawking, heaviside, oliver heaviside, baron hermann ludwig ferdinand von helmholtz, helmholtz, hermann ludwig ferdinand von helmholtz, hermann von helmholtz, henry, joseph henry, heinrich hertz, heinrich rudolph hertz, hertz, hess, victor franz hess, victor hess, christiaan huygens, christian huygens, huygens, jean-frederic joliot, jean-frederic joliot-curie, joliot, joliot-curie, irene joliot-curie, joliot-curie, james prescott joule, joule, alfred kastler, kastler, first baron kelvin, kelvin, william thompson, g. r. kirchhoff, gustav robert kirchhoff, kirchhoff, landau, lev davidovich landau, lenard, philipp lenard, gabriel lippmann, lippmann, lodge, sir oliver joseph lodge, sir oliver lodge, hendrik antoon lorentz, lorentz, ernst mach, mach, j. c. maxwell, james clerk maxwell, maxwell, fritz w. meissner, meissner, a. a. michelson, albert abraham michelson, albert michelson, michelson, millikan, robert andrews millikan, louis eugene felix neel, neel, nernst, walther hermann nernst, isaac newton, newton, sir isaac newton, hans christian oersted, oersted, georg simon ohm, ohm, henri pitot, pitot, max karl ernst ludwig planck, max planck, planck, cecil frank powell, powell, aleksandr mikjailovich prokhorov, aleksandr prokhorov, prokhorov, john william strutt, lord rayleigh, rayleigh, third baron rayleigh, reaumur, rene antoine ferchault de reaumur, roentgen, rontgen, wilhelm konrad roentgen, wilhelm konrad rontgen, ernest rutherford, first baron rutherford, first baron rutherford of nelson, rutherford, shockley, william bradford shockley, william shockley, benjamin thompson, count rumford, thompson, joseph john thomson, sir joseph john thomson, thomson, george paget thomson, sir george paget thomson, thomson, evangelista torricelli, torricelli, john tyndall, tyndall, james alfred van allen, van allen, robert jemison van de graaff, robert van de graaff, van de graaff, johannes diderik van der waals, johannes van der waals, van der waals, john hasbrouck van vleck, john van vleck, van vleck, conte alessandro giuseppe antonio anastasio volta, conte alessandro volta, count alessandro volta, volta, weber, wilhelm eduard weber, steven weinberg, weinberg, sir charles wheatstone, wheatstone, robert woodrow wilson, wilson, william hyde wollaston, wollaston, chen n. yang, yang chen ning, thomas young, young, pieter zeeman, zeeman, vladimir kosma zworykin, zworykin
is a kind of scientist
Derived form noun physics1
CIDE DICTIONARY
physicist, n.
- One versed in physics. [1913 Webster]
- A believer in the theory that the fundamental phenomena of life are to be explained upon purely chemical and physical principles; -- opposed to vitalist. [1913 Webster]
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physicist
Materiality
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