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physicist

[fiz-uh-sist] / ˈfɪz ə sɪst /


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The discovery, detailed in a study published in Science Advances, came from physicist Kostya Trachenko at Queen Mary University of London.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

The Belgian particle physicist helped build an observatory deep in the Antarctic ice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Belgian physicist Prof Francis Halzen has won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his pioneering work on an observatory that detects particles from space, shedding light on the distant universe.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

Both then working at Chinese search giant Baidu, he recalls an application from a physicist and biologist with no engineering or AI background.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

This image was created in 1904, based on little more than clever guesswork, by a Japanese physicist named Hantaro Nagaoka.

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

The result changes the usual way physicists think about the vacuum.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026

Wang grew up in New Mexico, where his parents worked as physicists at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the famous site of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer’s work on the Manhattan Project.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Some physicists have proposed that new physics or an undiscovered symmetry could explain this difference.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

"It's a step toward unifying all of the known fundamental forces, which has been a goal of physicists for more than a century."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

Newton’s laws of motion and gravitation gave physicists an explanation for the way planets and objects move through the universe.

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




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