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physicist:
(plural: ‘physicists‘; pronunciation: the letters ‘phy’ are said with an ‘fi’ sound as in “fill”)
a physicist experimenting in her lab
a person who studies physics;
(‘physics’ = a branch of science that deals with all the material things in the world, the natural laws, and the physical phenomena — mass, energy, light, gravity, electricity, moving of things, etc.)
a scientist who is an expert in physics,
e.g.
The most common physicists are: Galileo Galilee, Sir Issac Newton, Madam Curie, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawkins, etc.
We know the laws of Nature from the findings of the physicists.
a medical physicist with her sophisticated equipment
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