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physicist

[fiz-uh-sist] / ˈfɪz ə sɪst /


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As renowned physicist Richard Feynman said, “It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

The following year, the State Department renamed the gathering after a now-retired U.S. nuclear physicist who helped advise the Iran deal negotiations.

From Slate • May 1, 2026

A year later, JPL physicist Frank Maiwald died at 61, with no cause of death disclosed.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 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

The very notion of “clean” thermonuclear weapons was mercilessly demolished in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists by Ralph Lapp, a distinguished antinuclear physicist.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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