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physicist

[fiz-uh-sist] / ˈfɪz ə sɪst /


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Barbara Briceland, Lochrenberg's partner, told the BBC the retired medical physicist was a good swimmer, who often swam far out into the breakers, and described her as very brave.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Germany's final attempt was an experimental reactor known as the B8 pile, constructed in 1945 under the direction of physicist Werner Heisenberg.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

“There are no known obstacles of which we are aware that would prevent it,” one physicist said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 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

It really was no help to receive encouragement from a fellow physicist.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

Experimental physicists subsequently tested these predictions using several complementary methods.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 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

When Feynman made that comment, physicists had had half a century to adjust to the strangeness of atomic behavior.

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


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