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Physicist

//ˈfɪzɪsɪst// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A person whose occupation specializes in the science of physics, especially at a professional level.

    "Thus we may say, that while the Naturalist employs principally the ideas of resemblance and life, the Physicist proceeds upon the ideas of force, matter, and the properties of matter."

  2. 2
    a scientist trained in physics wordnet
  3. 3
    A believer in the theory that the fundamental phenomena of life are to be explained upon purely chemical and physical principles (opposed to vitalist). archaic

Etymology

From physics + -ist. Coined by the English polymath William Whewell (1794–1866) in his book The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences (1840): see the quotation.

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