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physicist

[fiz-uh-sist] / ˈfɪz ə sɪst /


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"There are three classes of these particles," explains Tobias Weissenborn, a physicist and doctoral candidate at Leibniz University Hannover.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 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

The Belgian particle physicist helped build an observatory deep in the Antarctic ice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

It is a tiny force and very difficult to measure, but in 1995 the physicist Steven Lamoreaux measured the Casimir effect directly.

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

That might sound paradoxical given the terrible weapons that physicists have brought us, or the dire predictions of climatologists about earth’s future.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Mr. Rovelli is aware that his readership will include philosophers, fellow physicists and a majority who are neither.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

At very low temperatures, this arrangement produces what physicists call a Fermi sea.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

In 1959, physicists Yakir Aharonov and David Bohm predicted that a charged particle could be affected by magnetic flux even if it traveled entirely outside the region containing the magnetic field.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

In 1998 two physicists from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem showed that even a spinning or charged black hole—with a nice, ring-shaped singularity—will kill an astronaut, thanks to mass inflation.

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


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