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physicist

[fiz-uh-sist] / ˈfɪz ə sɪst /


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“Existence,” physicist Lawrence Krauss announces, is “a cosmic accident.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

To confirm their findings, Liu collaborated with physicist Federico Toschi at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands.

From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 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

In 1931, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Albert Einstein was spending his first winter at Caltech, and he wrote to a friend, “Here in Pasadena, it is like Paradise. Always sunshine and clear air …”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 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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