physicist.
A person whose occupation specializes in the science of physics, especially at a professional level.
Meaning & usage
A person whose occupation specializes in the science of physics, especially at a professional level.
A believer in the theory that the fundamental phenomena of life are to be explained upon purely chemical and physical principles (opposed to vitalist).
Where this word comes from
From physics + -ist. Coined by the English polymath William Whewell (1794–1866) in his book The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences (1840): see the quotation.
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