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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

These minute variations were first proposed by physicist John Wheeler and are expected to arise in several leading quantum gravity theories.

From Science Daily • Apr. 6, 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

Inspired by a novella by Soviet physicist Georgy Demidov, who chronicled his own harrowing experiences in the gulag from the late 1930s until the early 1950s, “Two Prosecutors” unfolds with ominous efficiency.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

He was a physicist at the university, and Petra knew he’d been worried about his job.

From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett




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