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physicist

  • noun
  • phy·sic·ist
  • /ˈfɪzɪsɪst/

A person whose occupation specializes in the science of physics, especially at a professional level.

Other meanings

  1. A believer in the theory that the fundamental phenomena of life are to be explained upon purely chemical and physical principles (opposed to ).

Related words

  • mathematical physicist
  • condensed matter physicist
  • nuclear physicist
  • theoretical physicist
  • health physicist
  • agrophysicist
  • astrophysicist
  • biophysicist
  • econophysicist
  • geophysicist
  • iatrophysicist
  • microphysicist

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This definition is adapted from “physicist” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.