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- noun One who is not a
physicist .
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In March of 1989, Berners-Lee was based at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, in Switzerland.xvii Well before the nonphysicist lot of us was introduced to the internet, Berners-Lee and his colleagues were accustomed to using computers to communicate with fellow researchers in labs scattered around the world.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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In March of 1989, Berners-Lee was based at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, in Switzerland.xvii Well before the nonphysicist lot of us was introduced to the internet, Berners-Lee and his colleagues were accustomed to using computers to communicate with fellow researchers in labs scattered around the world.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Unfortunately, the science he describes in "The Hidden Reality" is "hard" in both senses of the word: It incorporates many equations, and most of them are difficult for any nonphysicist to understand.
Welcome to the Multiverse John Gribbin 2011
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He was a nonphysicist who won the Wolf Prize in physics.
NYT > Home Page By JAMES GLEICK 2010
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Those are amateur answers from reading here, and not meant as more than doggerel, the real answers take advanced coursework and I'm relying on having read what's written for nonphysicist.
RealClimate 2009
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