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A scientist who has special training in physics — the study of how the world works at a deep level: light, heat, motion, atoms, forces. You will meet physicists in labs, universities, and space programmes; it is a job-word, not a street-word. An English , William Whewell, made this word in 1840 so that physics could have a person-word, the way chemistry has chemist. Though actually, people still mix it up with physician because the two look like sisters: a physicist studies physics; a physician is a medical doctor. They share an old root around “nature”, but the jobs are not the same.
物理學家
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physicistnoun/ˈfɪzɪsɪst/
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A person whose occupation specializes in the science of physics, especially at a professional level.
- 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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archaicA believer in the theory that the fundamental phenomena of life are to be explained upon purely chemical and physical principles (opposed to vitalist).
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。