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physicist

a person versed in or studying physics
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physicist

[′fiz·ə‚sist]
(physics)
A person who does research in physics.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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For decades, many particle physicists have devoted themselves to the beloved theory, known as supersymmetry.
Given the lack of recognition for Hasenohrl's contribution, they examined the Austrian physicist's original work on blackbody radiation in a cavity with perfectly reflective walls.
Minimum educational requirements for medical physicist jobs usually include either a master's degree or doctorate in physics, medical physics, or a related field.
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If the current downward trend continues, universities would be producing about 50 nuclear physicists annually by 2010.
His theories, and those of other physicists, led Einstein to believe that science could unlock the promise of E=[mc.sup.2].
"But when you start asking questions about the world, you'll find science everywhere," says physicist Lou Bloomfield.
Argentine physicist moves to untie universal mysteries.
The article purported to mock, in true postmodernist fashion, the silly old "dogma" that "there exists an external world," asserting instead that "physical `reality'" is just "a social and linguistic construct." The Social Text editors, thrilled to have a physicist defecting to their side, published the piece.
Professor Yasar Onel, a University of Iowa physicist, was one who lamented its demise, as the supercollider would have included 11 Iowa physicists in the research and, revealingly, they would have been "on the receiving end of major grants for years to come," as reporter Tom Walsh wrote.
It's very different than what the last 30 years of particle physics looked like," says theoretical physicist David Kaplan of Johns Hopkins University.
Stenger is a theoretical physicist at the University of Hawaii and author of a book titled The Unconscious Quantum: Metaphysics in Modern Physics and Cosmology.
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