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astrophysicist

[as-troh-fiz-uh-sist] / ˌæs troʊˈfɪz ə sɪst /
NOUN
astronomer
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Dr George Dransfield, an astrophysicist and Sky at Night presenter, said the decision could see the UK "lose our place in these big international scientific collaborations".

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

Back in 2010, UC Berkeley theoretical astrophysicist Dan Kasen proposed that the answer was a newborn magnetar.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 6, 2026

Snyder drove to the nearby home of Caltech astrophysicist Carl Grillmair, who went outside to his front porch to see what was going on, according to a Los Angeles County district attorney’s office news release.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026

A research astrophysicist and a gifted science communicator, Katie Mack moves lightly across these deep waters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026

“She’s the astrophysicist who confirmed the existence of dark matter,” I said, “the invisible stuff that makes up the universe.”

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

Researchers used an innovative technique called 'transmission strings', developed by Bristol astrophysicists Dr. David Grant and Dr. Hannah Wakeford, to investigate the planet's atmospheric structure in unprecedented detail.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

The “NOVA” presentation, bookended by takeoff and splashdown footage, isn’t for astrophysicists.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026

He hired astrophysicists, cryptographers and speech-recognition experts — no Wall Street experience allowed.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 15, 2025

With his passing on Tuesday, India lost one of its most celebrated astrophysicists.

From BBC ● May 23, 2025

It took a long time before astrophysicists came to agree that our universe was finite—that it did, in fact, have a beginning.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife


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