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physicist

[fiz-uh-sist] / ˈfɪz ə sɪst /


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A new scientific investigation suggests the Nazi nuclear program was much further from success than its leading physicist claimed.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

The discovery, detailed in a study published in Science Advances, came from physicist Kostya Trachenko at Queen Mary University of London.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

The chemistry prize follows the physics prize, which on Tuesday honoured Belgian physicist Francis Halzen.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 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

Talking of which, the physicist Nelson is my closest buddy now—kids me along, drops hints to imply that he knows that I know that he knows, etc.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman

At CERN's Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, physicists are recreating quark-gluon plasma to investigate the ingredients that filled the young universe.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

Z bosons also appear at a distinctive energy, which makes them relatively easy for physicists to identify.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 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

Known to physicists as big G, this fundamental number determines the strength of gravitational attraction throughout the universe.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

While physicists in the middle decades of the twentieth-century were looking perplexedly into the world of the very small, astronomers were finding no less arresting an incompleteness of understanding in the universe at large.

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


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