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physicist

[fiz-uh-sist] / ˈfɪz ə sɪst /


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Physicist Dr. Robert Goddard launched a rocket from a farm in Massachusetts in 1926.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

Physicist Karl Compton, an ARD founder and Massachusetts Institute of Technology president, described new industries as “babies…their parents are science and invention.”

From Barron's • Jan. 28, 2026

Physicist Carlo Rovelli, for example, notes in his delightful and skinny 2014 book, “Seven Brief Lessons on Physics”, that without quantum mechanics there would be no transistors.

From Salon • Jan. 30, 2024

Physicist Andrea Alù likens the behavior of light in chaotic systems to the initial break shot in a game of billiards.

From Science Daily • Nov. 2, 2023

Physicist Marc Millis heads NASA's Breakthrough Propulsion Project and hopes to overcome this problem with the physics of zero.

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




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