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单词 physicist
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physicistn.

Brit. /ˈfɪzᵻsɪst/, U.S. /ˈfɪzəsəst/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: physic n., -ist suffix.
Etymology: < physic n. + -ist suffix. In sense 2a after physics n. 1b. With sense 3 compare French physiciste , adjective (dated c1820 in Robert Dict. alphabétique et analogique (1986)). With sense 3 compare earlier physicism n. and physicalist n.In French, senses 1 and 2 are covered by physicien physician n., also in sense ‘expert in physics’ (1680).
1. An expert in medical science. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > life > biology > study > person who studies > [noun]
physicist1716
remedist1716
clinician1875
1716 M. Davies Diss. Physick 12 in Athenæ Britannicæ III Anatomists, Naturalists, Physicists, Medicinists.
2.
a. An expert in or student of physics (physics n. 1b).
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the world > matter > physics > [noun] > physics > scientist involved with
physicist1837
1837 London & Edinb. Philos. Mag. 11 262 The much-wished-for fall of one of these meteors would without doubt furnish the chemist and physicist [Fr. physicien] with the means of explaining certain points quite unknown.
1840 W. Whewell Philos. Inductive Sci. I. Pref. 71 We might perhaps still use physician as the equivalent of the French physicien..but probably it would be better to coin a new word. Thus we may say that..the Physicist proceeds upon the ideas of force, matter, and the properties of matter.
1853 tr. M. V. Regnault in Jrnl. Franklin Inst. 56 31 A great number of physicists have employed themselves during the last century, in the examination of the specific heats of elastic fluids.
1939 E. D. Laborde tr. E. de Martonne Shorter Physical Geogr. (rev. ed.) xv. 217 Though apparently rigid, the mass of ice is really what physicists call a viscous fluid.
1978 H. M. Rosenberg Solid State (ed. 2) i. 1 For an easy life physicists have nearly always limited their work to explanations of the properties of simple regular patterns of atoms.
2004 PC Mag. (Nexis) 13 July m12 One path toward that future is what Tim Berners-Lee—the Oxford-educated physicist who created the basic software protocols behind the World Wide Web—calls the Semantic Web.
b. A person who studies nature or natural science. Cf. physician n. 3, naturalist n. 1a. Obsolete.
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the world > matter > physics > [noun] > physical scientist or natural philosopher
physiciana1425
man of science1482
natural philosopher?1541
naturalist1581
physiologer1598
physicist1858
1858 C. Kingsley Lett. 24 Dec. This Christmas night is the one of all the year which sets a physicist, as I am, on facing the fact of miracle.
1860 R. F. Burton in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 1859 29 23 There remained then for the English physicist the honour of depicting by an admirable generalization the true features of the African interior.
3. One who holds the theory of a purely physical or material origin of vital phenomena; a believer in physicism. Opposed to vitalist. Obsolete.
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the world > matter > physics > [noun] > a doctrine of physical phenomena > one holding
physicist1871
1871 J. Morley Carlyle in Crit. Misc. 229 The excessive pretensions and unwarranted certitudes of the physicist.
1872 H. A. Nicholson Introd. Study Biol. i. 16 No physicist has hitherto succeeded in explaining any fundamental vital phenomenon upon purely physical and chemical principles.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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