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physicist

[fiz-uh-sist] / ˈfɪz ə sɪst /


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The basic idea dates to a famous experiment performed by English physicist Henry Cavendish in 1798.

From Science Daily Sep. 20, 2026

Open champion in history at 16 years and 9 months, says her physicist father maintained healthy boundaries.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 2, 2026

The telescope is named after physicist Nancy Grace Roman, who was Nasa's first chief astronomer in the 1960s and its first female executive.

From BBC Aug. 30, 2026

Donald Trump has always believed himself to be an expert at what he calls “nuclear,” due to the fact that his uncle, John Trump, was a physicist who taught at MIT.

From Salon Aug. 23, 2026

In the 1850s, however, William Thomson, a British physicist, noticed something odd about Charles’ law: the specter of zero.

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

Instead, it rules out one important version of that idea and gives physicists tighter boundaries for future theories connecting gravity with quantum mechanics.

From Science Daily Sep. 21, 2026

Known to physicists as big G, this fundamental number determines the strength of gravitational attraction throughout the universe.

From Science Daily Sep. 20, 2026

Despite the way it is often portrayed in popular culture, 68% of the physicists surveyed said the Big Bang does not necessarily represent the beginning of time.

From Science Daily Sep. 13, 2026

Beginning in the 1980s, physicists developed models in which wavefunction collapse does not require a measuring device or an observer.

From Science Daily Sep. 11, 2026

Cockcroft was thirty-four, a man with the mild eccentricities that American physicists had come to expect in their cross-oceanic colleagues.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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