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physicist

[fiz-uh-sist] / ˈfɪz ə sɪst /


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Jeremie Harris is a physicist, China hawk and national-security consultant.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026

She’s become convinced the old house they are renovating harbors a ghost, an idea that Sam, a physicist, scorns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

In 1930, Dutch physicist Frits Zernike realized that light passing through biological material changes in more ways than simply becoming brighter or dimmer.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026

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

He had no hesitation about wading into battle over some aspect of nanotechnology with an esteemed physicist.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

One reason physicists are so interested in these unusual decays is that quantum effects allow other particles to influence how they occur.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 10, 2026

This approach allows physicists to identify patterns and restrictions governing space-time without necessarily solving every part of Einstein's equations.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2026

To understand how the technique works, it helps to consider how physicists describe a qubit's state mathematically.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026

For nearly 90 years, physicists have divided magnetic materials into two main categories: ferromagnets and antiferromagnets.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026

At the turn of the century, two British physicists tried to use the wiggle theory to solve a simple problem.

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


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