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physicist

[fiz-uh-sist] / ˈfɪz ə sɪst /


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"I've got about a two-thirds success rate," said the solar physicist at University College London.

From Barron's Aug. 5, 2026

In December 1942, physicist Enrico Fermi set off humanity’s first nuclear chain reaction, in a squash court at the University of Chicago.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 28, 2026

"One of them was named after a famous Indian physicist, so I would say I'm not racist."

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

His last three films before adapting a millennia-old poem were a historical epic about an evacuation operation, a time-travel thriller that’s knotty to the point of confusion and a biopic on a physicist.

From Salon Jul. 19, 2026

The physicist is angry about me taking this step with "such an incomplete assessment of the variables and the risk factors."

From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements

But physicists had mostly decided not to take this negative time seriously.

From Science Daily Aug. 4, 2026

Henri Murison, the chief executive of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership, told the BBC: "Eminent physicists have made the case for why this is particularly worrying, because it will lose physics talent across the country."

From BBC Jul. 29, 2026

When I went to Morgan Stanley in 1994 after several years in academia, Wall Street was full of physicists and economists.

From MarketWatch Jul. 27, 2026

Erich Mendelsohn, the young architect, was a member of Munich’s artistic avant-garde, while Erwin Finlay Freundlich, one of the first German physicists to endorse the theory of relativity, belonged to the scientific avant-garde.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

This expressly decreed that nothing could outrace the speed of light and yet here were physicists insisting that, somehow, at the subatomic level, information could.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson




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