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physicist

[fiz-uh-sist] / ˈfɪz ə sɪst /


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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

Michael David Hicks, a physicist with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab who specialized in comets and asteroids, died in 2023.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 25, 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

Reynie went on to the third question, which had to do with subatomic particles called fermions and an Indian physicist named Satyendranath Bose.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart




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