Biophysicist

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A biologist or physicist whose speciality is biophysics.
  2. 2
    a physicist who applies the methods of physics to biology wordnet

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biologistbotanistnaturalistzoologist

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"Richard Setlow is a biophysicist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York and co-author of a study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences."

Etymology

From bio- + physicist.

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