physicist

Noun

Meaning

One versed in physics.

A believer in the theory that the fundamental phenomena of life are to be explained upon purely chemical and physical principles; -- opposed to vitalist.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

nuclear physicist astrophysicist natural philosopher einstein newtonian archimedes physical scientist researcher faraday examiner academic physics expert scholar
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Antonyms

centigrade pure mental spiritual abstract dummy
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Hypernyms

scientist

Hyponyms

astronomer stargazer acoustician nuclear physicist biophysicist Charles Townes

Phrases with the word

health physicist radiation physicist general physicist atomic physicist computational physicist particle physicist

Examples

Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess of chemistry when they invade it. Frederick Soddy

The mathematical forms of order which the mind of a physicist manipulates coincides "miraculously" with experimental measurements. Marie-Louise von Franz

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself. Niels Bohr

The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist. George Stigler

The physicists say that I am a mathematician, and the mathematicians say that I am a physicist. I am a completely isolated man and though everybody knows me, there are very few people who really know me. Albert Einstein

The most important tool of the theoretical physicist is his wastebasket. Albert Einstein

Close letter words and terms

physicianly physicianship physicism physicist's unit physick physickal