physicist
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
physics/ˈfɪzɪks/
▶plural noun [treated as sing.] the branch of science concerned with the nature and properties of matter and energy.
■ the physical properties and phenomena of something.
– derivatives
physicist noun.
physicist noun.
– origin C15 (denoting natural science in general): pl. of obs. physic ‘physical (thing)’, suggested by L. physica (see physic).
'physicist' also found in these Oxford entries:
ampere
- angstrom
- Avogadro's constant
- becquerel
- bohrium
- Boltzmann's constant
- boson
- Charles's law
- Cherenkov radiation
- Cooper pair
- debye
- degauss
- dewar
- Doppler effect
- Einstein
- Fahrenheit
- faraday
- Feldenkrais method
- fermion
- Feynman diagram
- FitzGerald contraction
- fresnel lens
- Galilean
- Geiger counter
- Heaviside layer
- henry
- hertz
- Higgs boson
- Josephson junction
- joule
- kelvin
- lambert
- lawrencium
- Lorentz force
- Mach
- maxwell
- Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution
- meitnerium
- Nicol prism
- oersted
- ohm
- Pauli exclusion principle
- physics
- pitot
- Planck's constant
- Poisson distribution
- quark
- Raman effect
- Rayleigh scattering
- Reynolds number
