How to Use physicist in a Sentence

physicist

noun
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  • Lee and his schoolmate Zhu Guangya were the two physicists in the group.
    — Yangyang Cheng, NPR, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Geng isn’t the only physicist to make the list, either.
    — Alex Knapp, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • The three physicists shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for this achievement in 1956.
    — Jennifer Kite-Powell, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024
  • Sakharov, of course, was one of the outstanding physicists of his age.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Science emerges as a version of the pastoral, with the physicist as swain.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
  • The physicist Akira Hasegawa came up with the concept in the 1980s, based on his study of plasma around Jupiter.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN, 29 Nov. 2024
  • The Edge of Space-Time is not only for physicists or science nerds.
    — Colleen Hamilton, Them, 25 July 2024
  • The other is just for the physicists, or perhaps for players of the video game Portal.
    — Jennifer Ouellette and Sean M. Carroll, Ars Technica, 24 Nov. 2023
  • Last year, superheroes lost out at the box office to a doll, a plumber, and even a physicist.
    — Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 25 July 2024
  • But physicists offer two ways of thinking about why the trick works.
    — Quanta Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024
  • One bit of physics that produces this is called the Casimir effect, named for the Dutch physicist Hendrik Casimir.
    — Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 18 May 2022
  • Us physicists like it when all of our theories line up and agree on the nature of the Universe.
    — Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 23 May 2024
  • But monism was declared a heresy, first by the medieval Church and second, in Päs’s telling, by physicist Niels Bohr.
    — Amy Brady, Scientific American, 12 Dec. 2022
  • The day was founded in 1988 by physicist Larry Shaw as a time to celebrate all things Pi.
    — Leada Gore | [email protected], al, 14 Mar. 2023
  • For many of these physicists, the study of engines and computers has become blurred.
    — Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2024
  • In 1999, a Danish physicist named Lene Hau did the unthinkable.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 16 Aug. 2022
  • The physicist Craig Kletzing’s life took him far from his childhood home.
    — Graham Womack, Sacramento Bee, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The retired physicist tackles the trail twice a week, even in the snow and ice, driving 180 miles round-trip from his home in Fairfax County.
    — Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2022
  • To test the strong nuclear force, physicists turned to the helium-4 nucleus, which has two protons and two neutrons.
    — Katie McCormick, Quanta Magazine, 12 June 2023
  • The first chairman of the group was Andrei Sakharov, the great physicist who became a great human-rights champion.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Stevens, a physicist, was a prolific inventor with more than 30 patents to his name.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Dec. 2023
  • But in the 1960s, quantum theory failed physicists once again.
    — Quanta Magazine, 23 May 2024
  • The physicist, reclining in an oxblood Eames lounge chair, offered that the hippies had saved physics, to murmurs of assent.
    — Joseph Bernstein, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek explores the secrets of the cosmos.
    — Frank Wilczek, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2023
  • To that point, Taranto pulls a useful metaphor out of Helen’s status as a quantum physicist.
    — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Prof Morawska is a physicist who has been working on air quality for more than twenty years.
    — Laurie Winkless, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Her mother was the daughter of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Max Born.
    — Jim Farber, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2022
  • But even as the first protons shot across it, physicists were itching to build something even more powerful.
    — Samia Bouzid, Scientific American, 8 Aug. 2024
  • That sentence has physicists wondering when NSF will go forward with two major projects that must be built at the pole.
    — Byadrian Cho, science.org, 22 June 2023
  • While physicist Mikhail Kovalchuk, who is said to be part of Putin's inner circle, suggested conducting nuclear weapons tests in a bid to scare the West.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 16 Dec. 2024

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