physicist

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A, uh, a physicist is a person who studies physics.

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  1. noun A scientist who specializes in physics.

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  • She's a physicist, and somehow stays smiling, in spite of everything going on back home. —  Neil Turok makes his TED Prize wish
  • But as a physicist, I thought, well if you give me some data, I could maybe understand this. —  Sean Gourley on the mathematics of war
  • Lastly, there is the full-fledged theory in which the naive realist and the physicist are agreed, according to which some things are alive and are sets of experiences and others are lifeless. —  My Philosophical Development
  • The whimsy of the physicist is again with us as he refers to these three kinds of quarks as three "flavors." —  Asimov's Science Fiction - 1977_02(002)Summer
  • For if the four forces of the physicist are all the forces there are, then we can make some definite statements about the various forms of psi phenomena that we deal with in science fiction. —  Asimov's Science Fiction - 1977_02(002)Summer
 

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  1. from Greek φυσικά, physics (see physics), + -ist.
 

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/ˈfɪzɪsɪst/
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