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physicist

[fiz-uh-sist] / ˈfɪz ə sɪst /


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The following year, the State Department renamed the gathering after a now-retired U.S. nuclear physicist who helped advise the Iran deal negotiations.

From Slate • May 1, 2026

In 1886, the German physicist Heinrich Hertz demonstrated the existence of electromagnetic waves and discovered radio waves.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026

These minute variations were first proposed by physicist John Wheeler and are expected to arise in several leading quantum gravity theories.

From Science Daily • Apr. 6, 2026

Jeremy Hansen is a former Royal Canadian Air Force fighter pilot and physicist who joined the Canadian Space Agency in 2009.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

“E. O. Lawrence personally never quite demobilized after the end of World War II,” the Rad Lab physicist Wolfgang “Pief” Panofsky would observe many years later.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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