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physicist

[fiz-uh-sist] / ˈfɪz ə sɪst /


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She’s become convinced the old house they are renovating harbors a ghost, an idea that Sam, a physicist, scorns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Germany's final attempt was an experimental reactor known as the B8 pile, constructed in 1945 under the direction of physicist Werner Heisenberg.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

“There are no known obstacles of which we are aware that would prevent it,” one physicist said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

The chemistry prize follows the physics prize, which on Tuesday honoured Belgian physicist Francis Halzen for groundbreaking work using Antarctic ice to capture particles originating in the distant cosmos.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

Max Perutz, the physicist, moved to Cambridge University in 1937.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

To understand how the technique works, it helps to consider how physicists describe a qubit's state mathematically.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026

To minimize this problem, physicists developed techniques known as "quantum nondemolition measurements," or QND.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026

A world so small that some physicists have nicknamed it the zeptoverse.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

For reasons physicists are still trying to explain, the early universe ended up with slightly more matter than antimatter.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026

There are no antiprotons or antineutrons, made up from antiquarks, except for a few that physicists produce in large particle accelerators.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking


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