PHYSICIST

Pronunciation (US):

• PHYSICIST (noun)
  The noun PHYSICIST has 1 sense:

1. a scientist trained in physics

  Familiarity information: PHYSICIST used as a noun is very rare.

• PHYSICIST (noun)

Meaning:

A scientist trained in physics

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("physicist" is a kind of...):

man of science; scientist (a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences)

Domain category:

natural philosophy; physical science; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "physicist"):

acoustician (a physicist who specializes in acoustics)

astronomer; stargazer; uranologist (a physicist who studies astronomy)

biophysicist (a physicist who applies the methods of physics to biology)

nuclear physicist (a physicist who specializes in nuclear physics)

Instance hyponyms:

Millikan; Robert Andrews Millikan (United States physicist who isolated the electron and measured its charge (1868-1953))

Louis Eugene Felix Neel; Neel (French physicist noted for research on magnetism (born in 1904))

Nernst; Walther Hermann Nernst (German physicist and chemist who formulated the third law of thermodynamics (1864-1941))

Isaac Newton; Newton; Sir Isaac Newton (English mathematician and physicist; remembered for developing the calculus and for his law of gravitation and his three laws of motion (1642-1727))

Hans Christian Oersted; Oersted (Danish physicist (1777-1851))

Georg Simon Ohm; Ohm (German physicist who formulated Ohm's law (1787-1854))

Henri Pitot; Pitot (French physicist for whom the Pitot tube was named (1695-1771))

Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck; Max Planck; Planck (German physicist whose explanation of blackbody radiation in the context of quantized energy emissions initiated quantum theory (1858-1947))

Cecil Frank Powell; Powell (English physicist who discovered the pion (the first known meson) which is a subatomic particle involved in holding the nucleus together (1903-1969))

Aleksandr Mikjailovich Prokhorov; Aleksandr Prokhorov; Prokhorov (Russian physicist whose research into ways of moving electrons around atoms led to the development of masers and lasers for producing high-intensity radiation (1916-2002))

A. A. Michelson; Albert Abraham Michelson; Albert Michelson; Michelson (United States physicist (born in Germany) who collaborated with Morley in the Michelson-Morley experiment (1852-1931))

Fritz W. Meissner; Meissner (German physicist (1882-1974))

Alfred Kastler; Kastler (French physicist (1902-1984))

First Baron Kelvin; Kelvin; William Thompson (British physicist who invented the Kelvin scale of temperature and pioneered undersea telegraphy (1824-1907))

G. R. Kirchhoff; Gustav Robert Kirchhoff; Kirchhoff (German physicist who with Bunsen pioneered spectrum analysis and formulated two laws governing electric networks (1824-1887))

Landau; Lev Davidovich Landau (Soviet physicist who worked on low temperature physics (1908-1968))

Lenard; Philipp Lenard (German physicist who studied cathode rays (1862-1947))

Gabriel Lippmann; Lippmann (French physicist who developed the first color photographic process (1845-1921))

Lodge; Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge; Sir Oliver Lodge (English physicist who studied electromagnetic radiation and was a pioneer of radiotelegraphy (1851-1940))

Hendrik Antoon Lorentz; Lorentz (Dutch physicist noted for work on electromagnetic theory (1853-1928))

Ernst Mach; Mach (Austrian physicist and philosopher who introduced the Mach number and who founded logical positivism (1838-1916))

J. C. Maxwell; James Clerk Maxwell; Maxwell (Scottish physicist whose equations unified electricity and magnetism and who recognized the electromagnetic nature of light (1831-1879))

John William Strutt; Lord Rayleigh; Rayleigh; Third Baron Rayleigh (English physicist who studied the density of gases and discovered argon; made important contributions to acoustic theory (1842-1919))

Reaumur; Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur (French physicist who invented the alcohol thermometer (1683-1757))

Conte Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta; Conte Alessandro Volta; Count Alessandro Volta; Volta (Italian physicist after whom the volt is named; studied electric currents and invented the voltaic pile (1745-1827))

Weber; Wilhelm Eduard Weber (German physicist and brother of E. H. Weber; noted for his studies of terrestrial magnetism (1804-1891))

Steven Weinberg; Weinberg (United States theoretical physicist (born in 1933))

Sir Charles Wheatstone; Wheatstone (English physicist and inventor who devised the Wheatstone bridge (1802-1875))

Robert Woodrow Wilson; Wilson (United States physicist honored for his work on cosmic microwave radiation (born in 1918))

William Hyde Wollaston; Wollaston (English chemist and physicist who discovered palladium and rhodium and demonstrated that static and current electricity are the same (1766-1828))

Chen N. Yang; Yang Chen Ning (United States physicist (born in China) who collaborated with Tsung Dao Lee in disproving the principle of conservation of parity (born in 1922))

Thomas Young; Young (British physicist and Egyptologist; he revived the wave theory of light and proposed a three-component theory of color vision; he also played an important role in deciphering the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta Stone (1773-1829))

Pieter Zeeman; Zeeman (Dutch physicist honored for his research on the influence of magnetism on radiation which showed that light is radiated by the motion of charged particles in an atom (1865-1943))

John Hasbrouck Van Vleck; John Van Vleck; Van Vleck (United States physicist (1899-1980))

Johannes Diderik van der Waals; Johannes van der Waals; van der Waals (Dutch physicist (1837-1923))

Robert Jemison Van de Graaff; Robert Van de Graaff; Van de Graaff (United States physicist (1901-1967))

Roentgen; Rontgen; Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen; Wilhelm Konrad Rontgen (German physicist who discovered x-rays and developed roentgenography (1845-1923))

Ernest Rutherford; First Baron Rutherford; First Baron Rutherford of Nelson; Rutherford (British physicist (born in New Zealand) who discovered the atomic nucleus and proposed a nuclear model of the atom (1871-1937))

Shockley; William Bradford Shockley; William Shockley (United States physicist (born in England) who contributed to the development of the electronic transistor (1910-1989))

Benjamin Thompson; Count Rumford; Thompson (English physicist (born in America) who studied heat and friction; experiments convinced him that heat is caused by moving particles (1753-1814))

Joseph John Thomson; Sir Joseph John Thomson; Thomson (English physicist who experimented with the conduction of electricity through gases and who discovered the electron and determined its charge and mass (1856-1940))

George Paget Thomson; Sir George Paget Thomson; Thomson (English physicist (son of Joseph John Thomson) who was a co-discoverer of the diffraction of electrons by crystals (1892-1975))

Evangelista Torricelli; Torricelli (Italian physicist who invented the mercury barometer (1608-1647))

John Tyndall; Tyndall (British physicist (born in Ireland) remembered for his experiments on the transparency of gases and the absorption of radiant heat by gases and the transmission of sound through the atmosphere; he was the first person to explain why the daylight sky is blue (1820-1893))

James Alfred Van Allen; Van Allen (United States physicist who discovered two belts of charged particles from the solar wind trapped by the Earth's magnetic field (born in 1914))

Vladimir Kosma Zworykin; Zworykin (United States physicist who invented the iconoscope (1889-1982))

Al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham; al-Haytham; Alhacen; Alhazen; Ibn al-Haytham (an Egyptian polymath (born in Iraq) whose research in geometry and optics was influential into the 17th century; established experiments as the norm of proof in physics (died in 1040))

Charles; Jacques Alexandre Cesar Charles; Jacques Charles (French physicist and author of Charles's law which anticipated Gay-Lussac's law (1746-1823))

Charles Augustin de Coulomb; Coulomb (French physicist famous for his discoveries in the field of electricity and magnetism; formulated Coulomb's Law (1736-1806))

Crookes; Sir William Crookes; William Crookes (English chemist and physicist; discovered thallium; invented the radiometer and studied cathode rays (1832-1919))

Curie; Pierre Curie (French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906))

Dalton; John Dalton (English chemist and physicist who formulated atomic theory and the law of partial pressures; gave the first description of red-green color blindness (1766-1844))

Dewar; Sir James Dewar (Scottish chemist and physicist noted for his work in cryogenics and his invention of the Dewar flask (1842-1923))

Christian Johann Doppler; Doppler (Austrian physicist famous for his discovery of the Doppler effect (1803-1853))

Albert Einstein; Einstein (physicist born in Germany who formulated the special theory of relativity and the general theory of relativity; Einstein also proposed that light consists of discrete quantized bundles of energy (later called photons) (1879-1955))

Esaki; Leo Esaki (physicist honored for advances in solid state electronics (born in Japan in 1925))

Cavendish; Henry Cavendish (British chemist and physicist who established that water is a compound of hydrogen and oxygen and who calculated the density of the earth (1731-1810))

Carnot; Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot; Sadi Carnot (French physicist who founded thermodynamics (1796-1832))

Bertram Brockhouse; Brockhouse (Canadian physicist who bounced neutron beams off of atomic nuclei to study the structure of matter (1918-2003))

Anderson; Phil Anderson; Philip Anderson; Philip Warren Anderson (United States physicist who studied the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems (1923-))

Appleton; Edward Appleton; Sir Edward Victor Appleton (English physicist remembered for his studies of the ionosphere (1892-1966))

Archimedes (Greek mathematician and physicist noted for his work in hydrostatics and mechanics and geometry (287-212 BC))

Arrhenius; Svante August Arrhenius (Swedish chemist and chemist noted for his theory of chemical dissociation (1859-1927))

Amedeo Avogadro; Avogadro (Italian physicist noted for his work on gases; proposed what has come to be called Avogadro's law (1776-1856))

Bardeen; John Bardeen (United States physicist who won the Nobel prize for physics twice (1908-1991))

Antoine Henri Becquerel; Becquerel; Henri Becquerel (French physicist who discovered that rays emitted by uranium salts affect photographic plates (1852-1908))

Bernoulli; Daniel Bernoulli (Swiss physicist who contributed to hydrodynamics and mathematical physics (1700-1782))

Boltzmann; Ludwig Boltzmann (Austrian physicist who contributed to the kinetic theory of gases (1844-1906))

Fahrenheit; Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit (German physicist who invented the mercury thermometer and developed the scale of temperature that bears his name (1686-1736))

Faraday; Michael Faraday (the English physicist and chemist who discovered electromagnetic induction (1791-1867))

Hawking; Stephen Hawking; Stephen William Hawking (English theoretical physicist (born in 1942))

Heaviside; Oliver Heaviside (English physicist and electrical engineer who helped develop telegraphic and telephonic communications; in 1902 (independent of A. E. Kennelly) he suggested the existence of an atmospheric layer that reflects radio waves back to earth (1850-1925))

Baron Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz; Helmholtz; Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz; Hermann von Helmholtz (German physiologist and physicist (1821-1894))

Henry; Joseph Henry (United States physicist who studied electromagnetic phenomena (1791-1878))

Heinrich Hertz; Heinrich Rudolph Hertz; Hertz (German physicist who was the first to produce electromagnetic waves artificially (1857-1894))

Hess; Victor Franz Hess; Victor Hess (United States physicist (born in Austria) who was a discoverer of cosmic radiation (1883-1964))

Christiaan Huygens; Christian Huygens; Huygens (Dutch physicist who first formulated the wave theory of light (1629-1695))

Jean-Frederic Joliot; Jean-Frederic Joliot-Curie; Joliot; Joliot-Curie (French nuclear physicist who was Marie Curie's assistant and who worked with Marie Curie's daughter who he married (taking the name Joliot-Curie); he and his wife discovered how to synthesize new radioactive elements (1900-1958))

Irene Joliot-Curie; Joliot-Curie (French physicist who (with her husband) synthesized new chemical elements (1897-1956))

Goddard; Robert Hutchings Goddard (United States physicist who developed the first successful liquid-fueled rocket (1882-1945))

Gilbert; William Gilbert (English court physician noted for his studies of terrestrial magnetism (1540-1603))

Geiger; Hans Geiger (German physicist who developed the Geiger counter (1882-1945))

Fechner; Gustav Theodor Fechner (German physicist who founded psychophysics; derived Fechner's law on the basis of early work by E. H. Weber (1801-1887))

Foucault; Jean Bernard Leon Foucault (French physicist who determined the speed of light and showed that it travels slower in water than in air; invented the Foucault pendulum and the gyroscope (1819-1868))

Baron Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier; Fourier; Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (French mathematician who developed Fourier analysis and studied the conduction of heat (1768-1830))

Franck; James Franck (United States physicist (born in Germany) who with Gustav Hertz performed an electron scattering experiment that proved the existence of the stationary energy states postulated by Niels Bohr (1882-1964))

Augustin Jean Fresnel; Fresnel (French physicist who invented polarized light and invented the Fresnel lens (1788-1827))

Emil Klaus Julius Fuchs; Fuchs; Klaus Fuchs (British physicist who was born in Germany and fled Nazi persecution; in the 1940s he passed secret information to the USSR about the development of the atom bomb in the United States (1911-1988))

Dennis Gabor; Gabor (British physicist (born in Hungary) noted for his work on holography (1900-1979))

Gamow; George Gamow (United States physicist (born in Russia) who was a proponent of the big-bang theory and who did research in radioactivity and suggested the triplet code for DNA (1904-1968))

Gay-Lussac; Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (French chemist and physicist who first isolated boron and who formulated the law describing the behavior of gases under constant pressure (1778-1850))

James Prescott Joule; Joule (English physicist who established the mechanical theory of heat and discovered the first law of thermodynamics (1818-1889))