physicist

Definitions

1. A person whose occupation specializes in the science of physics, especially at a professional level.
2. A person whose occupation specializes in the science of physics, especially at a professional level
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).
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4. A believer in the theory that the fundamental phenomena of life are to be explained upon purely chemical and physical principles (opposed to vitalist)

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Examples

“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⟳.”

“Physicists find⟳ themselves called in to deal⟳ with such varied problems as the reduction of noise in diesel railcars, investigation of the Hertzian stresses set⟳ up by wheel-rail contact⟳ and improvement of the insulation of fish⟳ and banana vans.”

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