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physicist|ˈfɪzɪsɪst|
[f. physic n. + -ist.]
†1. One versed in medical science. Obs. rare.
1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. III. Diss. Physick 12 Anatomists, Naturalists, Physicists, Medicinists.
2. A student of physics (physics 2).
1840Whewell Philos. Induct. Sci. 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. 1843Blackw. Mag. LIV. 524 The word physicists, where four sibilant consonants fizz like a squib. 1869T. L. Phipson tr. Guillemin's Sun (1870) 146 The method known to physicists as ‘spectral analysis’.
b. A student of nature or natural science in general (cf. physics 1).
1858Kingsley 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. 1859R. F. Burton Centr. Afr. in Jrnl. Geog. Soc. XXIX. 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.
1871Morley Crit. Misc. Ser. i. 229 The excessive pretensions and unwarranted certitudes of the physicist. 1872Nicholson Introd. Study Biol. i. 16 No physicist has hitherto succeeded in explaining any fundamental vital phenomenon upon purely physical and chemical principles. |