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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

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 for groundbreaking work using Antarctic ice to capture particles originating in the distant cosmos.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

In October 1948, as Frank was preparing to accompany physicist John Williams to Berkeley to discuss the construction of an accelerator at Minnesota, Lawrence abrupdy informed Williams that Frank would not be welcome.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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

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

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

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

The result changes the usual way physicists think about the vacuum.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026

Gerald Black had taken his degree in etheric physics the year before and, in common with his entire generation of physicists, found himself engaged in the problem of the Drive.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov


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