Crossword clues for physicist
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Physicist \Phys"i*cist\, n. One versed in physics.
2. (Biol.) A believer in the theory that the fundamental phenomena of life are to be explained upon purely chemical and physical principles; -- opposed to vitalist.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1836, from physics + -ist. Coined by the Rev. William Whewell (1794-1866), English polymath, to denote a "cultivator of physics" as opposed to a physician.\n\nAs we cannot use physician for a cultivator of physics, I have called him a physicist. We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I should incline to call him a Scientist. Thus we might say, that as an Artist is a Musician, Painter, or Poet, a Scientist is a Mathematician, Physicist, or Naturalist.
[William Whewell, "The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences," London, 1840]
\n\nWiktionary
n. 1 A person whose occupation specializes in the science of physics, especially at a professional level. 2 (context archaic English) A believer in the theory that the fundamental phenomenon of life are to be explained upon purely chemical and physical principles (opposed to (term: vitalist)).
WordNet
n. a scientist trained in physics
Wikipedia
Physicist is the fourth solo album by Canadian musician Devin Townsend. The album was released on June 26, 2000, on Townsend's label, HevyDevy Records.
Physicist is distinguished from the rest of Townsend's solo portfolio for the crossing of the style of his work in Strapping Young Lad with elements that had been explored in Ocean Machine: Biomech and Infinity. Notably, the line-up of musicians featured on this album is identical to that of Strapping Young Lad.
A physicist is a scientist trained to understand the interactions of matter and energy across the physical universe. Physicists study a wide range of phenomena in many branches of their field, spanning all length scales: from sub-atomic particles of which all ordinary matter is made ( particle physics), to molecular length scales of chemical and biological interest, to cosmological length scales encompassing the Universe as a whole. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate causes of phenomena, and usually frame their understanding in mathematical terms.
The term "physicist" was coined by William Whewell in his 1840 book The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences.
Usage examples of "physicist".
Foreign Commissar, I present to you Maksim Lazarovich Kagan, the physicist on loan from the Metallurgical Laboratory project of the United States.
American Metallurgical Laboratory physicists had the half the Germans had been forced to disgorge.
May, a forty-year-old microchip physicist who had retired from Intel a wealthy man several years earlier.
This expressly decreed that nothing could outrace the speed of light and yet here were physicists insisting that, somehow, at the subatomic level, information could.
Einstein had parchmenty skin, a soft nimbus of gossamer hair, green veins through which the young physicist could see the blood slowly move.
Currently, however, physicists have been able to find only an approximation to this equation, in each of the five string theories, by mathematically evaluating a small number of relevant string diagrams using a perturbative approach.
Inspired by earlier works of Duff, Hull, Townsend, and building on insights of Schwarz, the Indian physicist Ashok Sen, and others, Witten announced a strategy for transcending the perturbative understanding of string theory.
Other casualties include Leonardo Vetra, the renowned CERN physicist and pioneer of antimatter technology, as well as Maximilian Kohler, the director of CERN, who apparently came to Vatican City in an effort to help but reportedly passed away in the process.
He had given up his sports career, gone back to graduate school and ended up as a research physicist at the Sandia National Lab, of all places, working on cold fusion.
Based on this, Scherk and Schwarz suggested that string theory had failed in its initial attempt because physicists had unduly constrained its scope.
Fresh from his biotech program, Andrew takes an assignment for a profile of a leading physicist, Violet Mosala, starting at a physics conference on the controversial island of Stateless -- a place built with stolen biotech, offering an anarchic haven for many of those disenchanted with the rest of the corporately dominated planet.
The physicists, fascinated with the sublunar energy complex, would have been glad to stay longer and perhaps even to open up the stopped tunnels.
Christian Scientists, psycho-analysts, electronic vibration diviners, therapeutists of all schools registered and unregistered, astrologers, astronomers who tell us that the sun is nearly a hundred million miles away and the Betelgeuse is ten times as big as the whole universe, physicists who balance Betelgeuse by describing the incredible smallness of the atom, and a host of other marvel mongers whose credulity would have dissolved the Middle Ages in a roar of sceptical merriment.
By the late 1970s and early 1980s many of its predictions had been verified experimentally, and most particle physicists concluded that it was just a matter of time before the rest were confirmed as well.
Apart from various physicists and astrogeologists who were eagerly making use of the rare chance to study firsthand the effects on other bodies of removing a large mass from a planetary system, that was one week too long.