biophysicistn.
/ˌbʌɪə(ʊ)ˈfɪzᵻsɪst/, U.S. /ˌbaɪoʊˈfɪzᵻsᵻst/ An expert in or student of biophysics.
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micrographer1668
micrologist1855
biophysicist1860
microbiologist1885
phenologist1888
biometrician1901
biometricist1902
bug chaser1911
psychobiologist1914
biotechnologist1920
sociobiologist1920
bioengineer1931
biotechnician1940
developmental biologist1940
neurobiologist1942
radiobiologist1946
virologist1946
photobiologist1958
prebiologist1963
mycoplasmologist1966
chronobiologist1976
genomicist1995
1860 J. Simon in T. Holmes Syst. Surg. I. 42 In the judgement of perhaps the first biophysicists of Europe, Helmholtz and Ludwig, the experiments of Becquerel and Breschet are of little value.
1913 L. J. Henderson Fitness Environm. 310 While biophysicists..follow Spencer in assuming a gradual evolution of the organic from the inorganic, biochemists are more than ever unable to perceive how such a process is possible.
1982 J. Hooper in O. Davies Omni Bk. Paranormal & Mind v. xxvi. 292 A University of Chicago biophysicist who has just completed a study of the neurocircuitry of visual hallucination.
2006 Science 28 Apr. 535/2 With the arrival of the Hv family, I can almost hear the patch-pipettes pulling and PCR tubes popping as biophysicists rush to attack new questions.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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