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Definition: Physicist |
PhysicistNoun1. A scientist trained in physics. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "physicist" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1826. (references) |
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Occupations | Conducts research into phases of physical phenomena, develops theories and laws on basis of observation and experiments, and devises methods to apply laws and theories of physics to industry, medicine, and other fields: Performs experiments with masers, lasers, cyclotrons, betatrons, telescopes, mass spectrometers, electron microscopes, and other equipment to observe structure and properties of matter, transformation and propagation of energy, relationships between matter and energy, and other physical phenomena. Describes and expresses observations and conclusions in mathematical terms. Devises procedures for physical testing of materials. Conducts instrumental analyses to determine physical properties of materials. May specialize in one or more branches of physics and be designated Physicist, Acoustics (profess. & kin.); Physicist, Astrophysics (profess. & kin.); Physicist, Atomic, Electronic And Molecular (profess. & kin.); Physicist, Cryogenics (profess. & kin.); Physicist, Electricity And Magnetism (profess. & kin.); Physicist, Fluids (profess. & kin.). May be designated: Physicist, Light And Optics (profess. & kin.); Physicist, Nuclear (profess. & kin.); Physicist, Plasma (profess. & kin.); Physicist, Solid Earth (profess. & kin.); Physicist, Solid State (profess. & kin.); Physicist, Thermodynamics (profess. & kin.). (references) |
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Many famous physicists of the 20th and 21st century are found on the list of recipients of the Nobel Prize in physics.
Famous early physicists:
Famous physicists of the 18th century:
- Democritus - Abdera (circa 460 BC - 360 BC)
- Archimedes - Syracuse (circa 287 BC - 212 BC)
- Lucretius - Rome (98?-55 BC)
- William Gilbert - England (1544-1603)
- Galileo Galilei - Italy (1564-1642)
- Willebrord Snell - Netherlands (1580-1626)
- René Descartes - France (1596-1650)
- Evangelista Torricelli - Italy (1608-1647)
- Blaise Pascal - France (1623-1662)
- Robert Boyle - England (1627-1691)
- Christian Huygens, (1629-1695)
- Robert Hooke - England (1635-1703)
- Isaac Newton - England (1642-1727)
Famous physicists of the 19th century:
- Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Poland, Germany, Netherlands(1686-1736)
- Daniel Bernoulli - Switzerland (1700-1782)
- Benjamin Franklin, USA (1706-1790)
- Leonard Euler, (1707-1783)
- Rudjer Josip Boscovich - Dubrovnik (1711-1787)
- Jean Le Rond d'Alembert - France (1717-1783)
- Henry Cavendish - Britain (1731-1810)
- Charles Augustin de Coulomb, (1736-1806)
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange, (1736-1813)
- James Watt Scotland (1736-1819)
Famous physicists of the 20th century:
- Alessandro Volta - Italy (1745-1827)
- Ernst Chladni - Germany (1756-1827)
- John Dalton - England (1766-1844)
- Joseph Fourier, (1768-1830)
- Thomas Young - England (1773-1829)
- Jean-Baptist Biot, (1774-1862)
- Andre Marie Ampere, (1775-1836)
- Amedeo Avogadro - Italy (1776-1856)
- Carl Friedrich Gauss - Germany (1777-1855)
- Hans Christian Ørsted - Denmark (1777-1851)
- Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac - France (1778-1850)
- David Brewster - Scotland (1781-1868)
- William Prout - England (1785-1850)
- Joseph von Fraunhofer Germany (1787-1826)
- Augustin-Jean Fresnel - France (1788-1827)
- Georg Ohm - Germany (1789-1854)
- Michael Faraday - Britain (1791-1867)
- Felix Savart - France (1791-1841)
- Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot - France (1796-1832)
- Joseph Henry - USA (1797-1878)
- Christian Doppler - Austria (1803-1853)
- Wilhelm Weber, (1804-1891)
- William Hamilton - Ireland (1805-1865)
- Anders Jonas Ångström, - Sweden(1814-1874)
- James Prescott Joule - Britain (1818-1889)
- Hippolyte Fizeau - France (1819-1896)
- Léon Focault - France (1819-1868)
- George Gabriel Stokes - Britain (1819-1903)
- Hermann von Helmholtz - Germany (1821-1894)
- Rudolf Clausius - Germany (1822-1888)
- Gustav Robert Kirchhoff, (1824 - 1887)
- Johann Jakob Balmer - Switzerland (1825-1898)
- William Thomson - (Lord Kelvin) England (1824-1907)
- Joseph Wilson Swan, (1828-1914)
- James Clerk Maxwell - Britain (1831-1879)
- Jožef Stefan - Austria-Hungary, Slovenia (1835-1893)
- Ernst Mach - Austria (1838-1916)
- Josiah Gibbs, (1839-1903)
- Ernst Abbe - Germany (1840-1905)
- Marie Alfred Cornu, (1841-1902)
- James Dewar - Britain (1842-1923)
- Osborne Reynolds - Britain (1842-1912)
- Ludwig Boltzmann - Austria (1844-1906)
- Roland Eötvös - Hungary (1848-1919)
- Oliver Heaviside - Britain (1850-1925)
- George Francis FitzGerald - Ireland (1851-1901)
- John Henry Poynting - Britain (1852-1914)
- Henri Poincaré, (1854-1912)
- Janne Rydberg, Sweden (1854-1919)
- Edwin Hall - USA (1855-1938)
- Joseph John Thomson, England (1856-1940)
- Heinrich Rudolf Hertz - Germany (1857-1894)
- Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov - Imperial Russia (1857-1918)
- Hannes Alfven - Sweden (1908-1995)
- Henri Becquerel - France (1852-1908)
- John Stewart Bell - Britain (1928-1990)
- Felix Bloch - Switzerland (1905-1983)
- Niels Bohr - Denmark (1885-1962)
- Max Born - Germany, Britain (1882-1970)
- Satyendra Nath Bose - India (1894-1974)
- Louis-Victor de Broglie - France (1892-1987)
- Thomas Townsend Brown - American (1905 - 1985)
- Marie Curie - Poland (1867-1934)
- Fritjof Capra - Austria, USA (1939- )
- Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov - Imperial Russia, Soviet union (1904-1990)
- Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac - Britain (1902-1984)
- Freeman Dyson - Britain, USA (1923- )
- Paul Ehrenfest - Austria (1880-1933)
- Albert Einstein - Germany, USA (1879-1955)
- Enrico Fermi - Italy (1901-1954)
- Richard Feynman - USA (1918-1988)
- Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock - Imperial Russia, Soviet union (1898-1974)
- Murray Gell-Mann - USA (1929- )
- Werner Karl Heisenberg - Germany (1901-1976)
- Stephen Hawking - England (1942- )
- Edwin Jaynes - USA (1922-1998)
- Lev Davidovich Landau - Imperial Russia, Soviet union (1908-1968)
- Irving Langmuir - USA (1851-1957)
- Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam - Imperial Russia, Soviet union (1879-1944)
- John von Neumann - Austria-Hungary, USA (1903-1957)
- Robert Oppenheimer - USA (1904-1967)
- Wolfgang Ernst Pauli - Austria (1900-1958)
- Max Planck - Germany (1858-1947)
- John Polkinghorne - Britain (1930- )
- Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen - Germany (1845-1923)
- Ernest Rutherford - New Zealand, England (1871-1937)
- Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov - Soviet Union (1929-1989)
- Erwin Schrödinger, (1887-1961)
- Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm - Imperial Russia, Soviet union (1895-1971)
- Nikola Tesla - Austria-Hungary, USA (1856-1943)
- Steven Weinberg - USA (1933- )
- Arthur Wightman - USA
- Eugene Wigner - Austria-Hungary, USA (1902-1993)
- Victor Frederick Weisskopf - Austria, USA (1908-2002)
External link
- Pictures of famous physicists are collected in the Emilio Segre Visual Archives: http://www.aip.org/history/esva/
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "List of physicists."
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A physicist is a scientist trained in physics. Physicists are employed by universities as professors, lecturers, researchers, and by laboratories in industry. Employment as a professional physicist generally requires a doctoral degree. However, many people who have trained as physicsts use their skills in other parts of the economy, in particular in computing and finance.
See also:
Note: Physicians are medical doctors and should not be confused with physicists, despite the common root of the word.
- Nobel Prize in physics
- Famous Physicists
- Institute of Physics
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Physicist."
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Physics (from Greek from φυσικός (phusikos): natural, from φύσις (fysis): Nature) is the science of Nature in the broadest sense. Physicists study the behaviour and interactions of matter and radiation. Theories of physics are generally expressed as mathematical relations. Well-established theories are often referred to as physical laws or laws of physics; however, like all scientific theories, they are ultimately provisional.Physics is very closely related to the other natural sciences, particularly chemistry, the science of molecules and the chemical compounds that they form in bulk. Chemistry draws on many fields of physics, particularly quantum mechanics, thermodynamics and electromagnetism. However, chemical phenomena are sufficiently varied and complex that chemistry is usually regarded as a separate discipline.
Below is an overview of the major subfields and concepts in physics, followed by a brief outline of the history of physics and its subfields. A more comprehensive list of physics topics is also available.
Overview of physics
Theories
Main article: Theories of Physics
Central theories
Classical mechanics -- Thermodynamics -- Statistical mechanics -- Electromagnetism -- Special relativity -- General relativity -- Quantum mechanics -- Quantum field theory -- Standard Model -- Fluid mechanics
Concepts
Matter -- Antimatter -- Elementary particle -- Boson -- Fermion
Symmetry -- Motion -- Conservation law -- Mass -- Energy -- Momentum -- Angular momentum -- Spin
Time -- Space -- Dimension -- Spacetime -- Length -- Velocity -- Force -- Torque
Wave -- Wavefunction -- Quantum entanglement -- Harmonic oscillator -- Magnetism -- Electricity -- Electromagnetic radiation -- Temperature -- Entropy -- Physical information
Phase transitions -- Critical phenomena -- Spontaneous symmetry breaking -- Superconductivity -- Superfluidity -- Quantum phase transitions
Fundamental forces
Gravitational -- Electromagnetic -- Weak -- Strong
Particles
Main article: ParticlessAtom -- Proton -- Neutron -- Electron -- Quark -- Photon -- Gluon -- W boson -- Z boson -- Graviton -- Neutrino -- Particle radiation--Phonon--Roton
Subfields of physics
Astrophysics -- Atomic, Molecular, and Optical physics -- Computational physics -- Condensed matter physics -- Cosmology -- Cryogenics -- Fluid dynamics -- Polymer physics -- Optics -- Materials physics -- Nuclear physics -- Plasma physics -- Particle physics (or High Energy Physics) -- Vehicle dynamics
Methods
Scientific method -- Physical quantity -- Measurement -- Measuring instruments -- Dimensional analysis -- Statistics
Tables
List of physical laws -- Physical constants -- SI base units -- SI derived units -- SI prefixes -- Unit conversions
History
History of Physics -- Famous Physicists -- Nobel Prize in physics
A brief history of physics
Note: The following is a cursory overview of the development of physics. For a more detailed history, please refer to the main article on this subject, History of physics.
Since antiquity, people have tried to understand the behavior of matter: why unsupported objects drop to the ground, why different materials have different properties, and so forth. Also a mystery was the character of the universe, such as the form of the Earth and the behavior of celestial objects such as the Sun and the Moon. Several theories were proposed, most of them were wrong. These theories were largely couched in philosophical terms, and never verified by systematic experimental testing. There were exceptions and there are anachronisms: for example, the Greek thinker Archimedes derived many correct quantitative descriptions of mechanics and hydrostatics.
During the late 16th century, Galileo pioneered the use of experiment to validate physical theories, which is the key idea in the scientific method. Galileo formulated and successfully tested several results in dynamics, in particular the Law of Inertia. In 1687, Newton published the Principia Mathematica, detailing two comprehensive and successful physical theories: Newton's laws of motion, from which arise classical mechanics; and Newton's Law of Gravitation, which describes the fundamental force of gravity. Both theories agreed well with experiment. Classical mechanics would be exhaustively extended by Lagrange, Hamilton, and others, who produced new formulations, principles, and results. The Law of Gravitation initiated the field of astrophysics, which describes astronomical phenomena using physical theories.
From the 18th century onwards, thermodynamics was developed by Boyle, Young, and many others. In 1733, Bernoulli used statistical arguments with classical mechanics to derive thermodynamic results, initiating the field of statistical mechanics. In 1798, Thompson demonstrated the conversion of mechanical work into heat, and in 1847 Joule stated the law of conservation of energy, in the form of heat as well as mechanical energy.
The behavior of electricity and magnetism was studied by Faraday, Ohm, and others. In 1855, Maxwell unified the two phenomena into a single theory of electromagnetism, described by Maxwell's equations. A prediction of this theory was that light is an electromagnetic wave.
In 1895, Roentgen discovered X-rays, which turned out to be high-frequency electromagnetic radiation. Radioactivity was discovered in 1896 by Henri Becquerel, and further studied by Pierre Curie and Marie Curie and others. This initiated the field of nuclear physics.
In 1897, Thomson discovered the electron, the elementary particle which carries electrical current in circuits. In 1904, he proposed the first model of the atom, known as the plum pudding model. (The existence of the atom had been proposed in 1808 by Dalton.)
In 1905, Einstein formulated the theory of special relativity, unifying space and time into a single entity, spacetime. Relativity prescribes a different transformation between reference frames than classical mechanics; this necessitated the development of relativistic mechanics as a replacement for classical mechanics. In the regime of low (relative) velocities, the two theories agree. In 1915, Einstein extended special relativity to explain gravity with the general theory of relativity, which replaces Newton's law of gravitation. In the regime of low masses and energies, the two theories agree.
In 1911, Rutherford deduced from scattering experiments the existence of a compact atomic nucleus, with positively charged constituents dubbed protons. Neutrons, the neutral nuclear constituents, were discovered in 1932 by Chadwick.
Beginning in 1900, Planck, Einstein, Bohr, and others developed quantum theories to explain various anomalous experimental results by introducing discrete energy levels. In 1925, Heisenberg and 1926, Schrödinger and Dirac formulated quantum mechanics, which explained the preceding quantum theories. In quantum mechanics, the outcomes of physical measurements are inherently probabilistic; the theory describes the calculation of these probabilities. It successfully describes the behavior of matter at small distance scales.
Quantum mechanics also provided the theoretical tools for condensed matter physics, which studies the physical behavior of solids and liquids, including phenomena such as crystal structures, semiconductivity, and superconductivity. The pioneers of condensed matter physics include Bloch, who created a quantum mechanical description of the behavior of electrons in crystal structures in 1928.
During World War II, research was conducted by each side into nuclear physics, for the purpose of creating a nuclear bomb. The German effort, led by Heisenberg, did not succeed, but the Allied Manhattan Project reached its goal. In America, a team led by Fermi achieved the first man-made nuclear chain reaction in 1942, and in 1945 the world's first nuclear explosive was detonated at Trinity site, near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
Quantum field theory was formulated in order to extend quantum mechanics to be consistent with special relativity. It achieved its modern form in the late 1940s with work by Feynman, Schwinger, Tomonaga, and Dyson. They formulated the theory of quantum electrodynamics, which describes the electromagnetic interaction.
Quantum field theory provided the framework for modern particle physics, which studies fundamental forces and elementary particles. In 1954, Yang and Mills developed a class of gauge theories, which provided the framework for the Standard Model. The Standard Model, which was completed in the 1970s, successfully describes almost all elementary particles observed to date.
Future directions
As of 2003, research is progressing on a large number of fields of physics.
In condensed matter physics, the biggest unsolved theoretical problem is the explanation for high-temperature superconductivity. Strong efforts, largely experimental, are being put into making workable spintronics and quantum computers.
In particle physics, the first pieces of experimental evidence for physics beyond the Standard Model have begun to appear. Foremost amongst this are indications that neutrinos have non-zero mass. These experimental results appear to have solved the long-standing solar neutrino problem in solar physics. The physics of massive neutrinos is currently an area of active theoretical and experimental research. In the next several years, particle accelerators will begin probing energy scales in the TeV range, in which experimentalists are hoping to find evidence for the higgs boson and supersymmetric particles.
Theoretical attempts to unify quantum mechanics and general relativity into a single theory of quantum gravity, a program ongoing for over half a century, has yet to bear fruit. The current leading candidates are M-theory and loop quantum gravity.
Many astronomical phenomena have yet to be explained, including the existence of ultra-high energy cosmic rays and the anomalous rotation rates of galaxies. Theories that have been proposed to resolve these problems include doubly-special relativity, modified Newtonian dynamics, and the existence of dark matter. In addition, the cosmological predictions of the last several decades have been contradicted by recent evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating.
See unsolved problems in physics for a fuller treatment of this subject.
Suggested reading and external links
- Physics book and study guide on Wikibooks site.
- Feynman, The Character of Physical Law, Random House (Modern Library), 1994, hardcover, 192 pages, ISBN 0679601279
- Feynman, Leighton, Sands, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Addison-Wesley 1970, 3 volumes, paperback, ISBN 0201021153, hardcover Commemorative edition, 1989, ISBN 0201500647
- Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory, 464 pages, paperback, Vintage Books, 2000, ISBN 0375708111, hardcover, W.W. Norton & Company, 2003, ISBN 0393058581
- Eric Weisstein, Weisstein and Wolfram Research, Inc., and et al, World of Physics. Online Physics encyclopedic dictionary.
- Carl R. Nave, HyperPhysics, . Online crosslinked physics concept maps.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Physics."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
MATERIALITY | Physics; somatology, somatics; natural philosophy, experimental philosophy; physicism; physical science, philosophie positive, materialism; materialist; physicist; somatism, somatist. |
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Crosswords: Physicist |
| English words defined with "physicist": nuclear physicist. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "physicist": Alfven waves, Artsimovich, Lev ♦ Bernstein Mode, Birkeland, Kristian Olaf, Bohm diffusion ♦ Fraunhofer Gesellschaft ♦ Huygens principle, Huygens, Christiaan ♦ Joule cycle ♦ Landau, Lev D., Lenard effect ♦ Mersenne ♦ Ostwald colour system ♦ radiation physicist, RADIATION-THERAPY TECHNOLOGIST, radiological physicist, Raman Scattering, Rayleigh wave, Riecke's principle ♦ Teller, Edward, Thomson, William 1824-1907 ♦ Van Allen, James A.. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "physicist": Oersted. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | NACA Physicist Studying Alpha Rays. Credit: NASA. |  | Herbert Grove Dorsey - chief physicist of the Coast and Geodetic Survey With Dorsey Fathometer - Dorsey came to work with C&GS in 1926. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | In 1680, physicist Giovanni Borelli attempts to recycle his own breathing air. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |  | Figure 46. Regnault pycnometers, instruments first mentioned by the physicist Henri-Victor Regnault, a professor at the College of France, in 1843. These instruments were used to measure the density of liquids which he was studying to obtain their specific heat. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Figure 48. Knudsen pycnometer, described by the Danish physicist and hydrographer Martin Knudsen in 1902. This instrument was designed to make precise laboratory measurements of the density of sea water. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Figure 28. Model of a machine for generating electricity based on differences of temperature between the sea surface and great depth. This "thermal machine" was devised by the physicist Georges Claude and the engineer Paul Boucherot in 1926. It was an application of Carnot's theorem and was a forerunner of the modern ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) project. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Philip Bosco as physicist Niels Bohr in "Copenhagen" and Claudia Shear as Mae West in "Dirty Blonde" / Hirschfeld 5. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Human Rights | Russia | In February the FSB arrested Valentin Danilov, a Krasnoyarsk physicist, accused him of selling sensitive information to China, and charged him with espionage and fraud. (references) |
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| "Physicist" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.26% of the time. "Physicist" is used about 269 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.26% | 267 | 18,030 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.74% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 269 | N/A |
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Expressions using "physicist": atomic physicist ♦ nuclear physicist ♦ radiation physicist ♦ radiological physicist. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "physicist": physicist-poet. | |
Ending with "physicist": bio-physicist, non-physicist. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "physicist"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | fizikan. (various references) | |
Arabic | فيزيائي (physical), عالم الطبيعيات. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | физик (man of science, scientist). (various references) | |
Chinese | 物理学家. (various references) | |
Czech | přírodovìdec (naturalist, scientist), fyzik. (various references) | |
Danish | fysiker. (various references) | |
Dutch | natuurkundige. (various references) | |
Esperanto | fizikisto. (various references) | |
Farsi | فیزیک دان . (various references) | |
Finnish | fyysikko. (various references) | |
French | physicien (natural philosopher). (various references) | |
German | Physiker (physicists, physics student). (various references) | |
Greek | φυσικόσ καθηγητήσ, φυσικόσ (natural, normal, physical, scenic, unstudied), φυσικός (physical). (various references) | |
Hebrew | פיסיקאי. (various references) | |
Hungarian | fizikus. (various references) | |
Italian | fisico (bodily, body, corporeal, natural, physical). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 物理学者 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぶつりがくしゃ. (various references) | |
Korean | 물리학자. (various references) | |
Manx | fishigagh (physical). (various references) | |
Papiamen | físiko (physical). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ysicistphay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | físico (bodily, physical, physique). (various references) | |
Romanian | fizician. (various references) | |
Russian | физик (natural philosopher). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | fizičar. (various references) | |
Spanish | físico (material, physical, physique). (various references) | |
Swedish | fysiker. (various references) | |
Turkish | fizikçi, fízíkçí. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | фізик (naturalist). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nh vật lý học nh duy vật. (various references) | |
Welsh | ffisegwr, anianydd (naturalist, philosopher). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | naturalem, naturali, naturalibus, naturalis, physicus. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "physicist": physicists. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "physicist": astrophysicist, biophysicist, geophysicist, psychophysicist. (additional references) | |
Words containing "physicist": astrophysicists, biophysicists, geophysicists, psychophysicists. (additional references) | |
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"Physicist" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: phisicist, phistiki, physacist, physalis, physicis, physicst, physisist, psysicist, Pyxidis. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "physicist" (pronounced fi"zusi'st) |
| 8 | f i" z u s i' s t | astrophysicist. |
| 5 | -u s i' s t | publicist. |
| 4 | -s i' s t | bassist, nicest, sexist. |
| 3 | -i' s t | absurdist, backlist, baptist, blacklist, careerist, centrist, chartist, checklist, cheesiest, chemist, clearest, climatologist, collectivist, conformist, constructionist, consumerist, corporatist, costliest, counterterrorist, cubist, cutest, czarist, defeatist, dramatist, dualist, egotist, essayist, evangelist, expansionist, experimentalist, fatalist, flavorist, flutist, futurist, gradualist, harpist, horticulturist, humanist, jurist, lyrist, minimalist, monarchist, monetarist, moralist, nativist, nudist, optimist, optometrist, parodist, percussionist, perfectionist, pharmacologist, pinkest, podiatrist, practiced, pragmatist, purist, realist, recidivist, reformist, religionist, revisionist, revivalist, royalist, satanist, saxophonist, sensationalist, soloist, statist, stylist, suffragist, terrorist, trombonist, typist, vaguest. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-h-i-i-p-s-s-t-y" | |
-2 letters: physics. | |
-3 letters: physic, physis, pitchy, psychs, schist, scyphi, stichs. | |
-4 letters: chips, chits, cissy, cists, cysts, hissy, hists, itchy, pitch, piths, pithy, psych, ships, shist, spics, spicy, spits, stich, syphs, tipis, tipsy, typic. | |
-5 letters: chip, chis, chit, cist, city, cyst, hips, hiss, hist, hits, hyps, ichs, itch, phis, pics, pish, piss, pith, pits, pity, psis. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-h-i-i-p-s-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: physicists. | |
+2 letters: physicalist, syphilitics. | |
+3 letters: biophysicist, dysphemistic, geophysicist, physicalists, psychiatries, psychiatrist. | |
+4 letters: biophysicists, geophysicists, physicalistic, physicalities, psychiatrists, sophistically. | |
+5 letters: antipsychotics, astrophysicist, hyperviscosity, metaphysicians, psycholinguist. | |
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