physicist
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1. a scientist trained in physics (noun.person)
| hypernym | : | scientist, |
| definition | : | a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | acoustician, |
| definition | : | a physicist who specializes in acoustics (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | biophysicist, |
| definition | : | a physicist who applies the methods of physics to biology (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | nuclear physicist, |
| definition | : | a physicist who specializes in nuclear physics (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | archimedes, |
| definition | : | Greek mathematician and physicist noted for his work in hydrostatics and mechanics and geometry (287-212 BC) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | arrhenius, svante august arrhenius, |
| definition | : | Swedish chemist and physicist noted for his theory of chemical dissociation (1859-1927) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | amedeo avogadro, avogadro, |
| definition | : | Italian physicist noted for his work on gases; proposed what has come to be called Avogadro's law (1776-1856) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | bardeen, john bardeen, |
| definition | : | United States physicist who won the Nobel prize for physics twice (1908-1991) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | bernoulli, daniel bernoulli, |
| definition | : | Swiss physicist who contributed to hydrodynamics and mathematical physics (1700-1782) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | boltzmann, ludwig boltzmann, |
| definition | : | Austrian physicist who contributed to the kinetic theory of gases (1844-1906) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | bertram brockhouse, brockhouse, |
| definition | : | Canadian physicist who bounced neutron beams off of atomic nuclei to study the structure of matter (1918-2003) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | cavendish, henry cavendish, |
| definition | : | British chemist and physicist who established that water is a compound of hydrogen and oxygen and who calculated the density of the earth (1731-1810) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | charles augustin de coulomb, coulomb, |
| definition | : | French physicist famous for his discoveries in the field of electricity and magnetism; formulated Coulomb's Law (1736-1806) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | curie, pierre curie, |
| definition | : | French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | dalton, john dalton, |
| definition | : | English chemist and physicist who formulated atomic theory and the law of partial pressures; gave the first description of red-green color blindness (1766-1844) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | dewar, sir james dewar, |
| definition | : | Scottish chemist and physicist noted for his work in cryogenics and his invention of the Dewar flask (1842-1923) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | albert einstein, einstein, |
| definition | : | physicist born in Germany who formulated the special theory of relativity and the general theory of relativity; Einstein also proposed that light consists of discrete quantized bundles of energy (later called photons) (1879-1955) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | esaki, leo esaki, |
| definition | : | physicist honored for advances in solid state electronics (born in Japan in 1925) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | fahrenheit, gabriel daniel fahrenheit, |
| definition | : | German physicist who invented the mercury thermometer and developed the scale of temperature that bears his name (1686-1736) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | faraday, michael faraday, |
| definition | : | the English physicist and chemist who discovered electromagnetic induction (1791-1867) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | fechner, gustav theodor fechner, |
| definition | : | German physicist who founded psychophysics; derived Fechner's law on the basis of early work by E. H. Weber (1801-1887) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | foucault, jean bernard leon foucault, |
| definition | : | French physicist who determined the speed of light and showed that it travels slower in water than in air; invented the Foucault pendulum and the gyroscope (1819-1868) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | franck, james franck, |
| definition | : | United States physicist (born in Germany) who with Gustav Hertz performed an electron scattering experiment that proved the existence of the stationary energy states postulated by Niels Bohr (1882-1964) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | augustin jean fresnel, fresnel, |
| definition | : | French physicist who invented polarized light and invented the Fresnel lens (1788-1827) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | emil klaus julius fuchs, fuchs, klaus fuchs, |
| definition | : | British physicist who was born in Germany and fled Nazi persecution; in the 1940s he passed secret information to the USSR about the development of the atom bomb in the United States (1911-1988) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | dennis gabor, gabor, |
| definition | : | British physicist (born in Hungary) noted for his work on holography (1900-1979) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | gamow, george gamow, |
| definition | : | United States physicist (born in Russia) who was a proponent of the big-bang theory and who did research in radioactivity and suggested the triplet code for DNA (1904-1968) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | gay-lussac, joseph louis gay-lussac, |
| definition | : | French chemist and physicist who first isolated boron and who formulated the law describing the behavior of gases under constant pressure (1778-1850) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | geiger, hans geiger, |
| definition | : | German physicist who developed the Geiger counter (1882-1945) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | gilbert, william gilbert, |
| definition | : | English court physician noted for his studies of terrestrial magnetism (1540-1603) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | goddard, robert hutchings goddard, |
| definition | : | United States physicist who developed the first successful liquid-fueled rocket (1882-1945) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | heaviside, oliver heaviside, |
| definition | : | English physicist and electrical engineer who helped develop telegraphic and telephonic communications; in 1902 (independent of A. E. Kennelly) he suggested the existence of an atmospheric layer that reflects radio waves back to earth (1850-1925) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | henry, joseph henry, |
| definition | : | United States physicist who studied electromagnetic phenomena (1791-1878) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | hess, victor franz hess, victor hess, |
| definition | : | United States physicist (born in Austria) who was a discoverer of cosmic radiation (1883-1964) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | jean-frederic joliot, jean-frederic joliot-curie, joliot, joliot-curie, |
| definition | : | French nuclear physicist who was Marie Curie's assistant and who worked with Marie Curie's daughter who he married (taking the name Joliot-Curie); he and his wife discovered how to synthesize new radioactive elements (1900-1958) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | irene joliot-curie, joliot-curie, |
| definition | : | French physicist who (with her husband) synthesized new chemical elements (1897-1956) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | james prescott joule, joule, |
| definition | : | English physicist who established the mechanical theory of heat and discovered the first law of thermodynamics (1818-1889) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | landau, lev davidovich landau, |
| definition | : | Soviet physicist who worked on low temperature physics (1908-1968) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | lenard, philipp lenard, |
| definition | : | German physicist who studied cathode rays (1862-1947) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | gabriel lippmann, lippmann, |
| definition | : | French physicist who developed the first color photographic process (1845-1921) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | ernst mach, mach, |
| definition | : | Austrian physicist and philosopher who introduced the Mach number and who founded logical positivism (1838-1916) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | j. c. maxwell, james clerk maxwell, maxwell, |
| definition | : | Scottish physicist whose equations unified electricity and magnetism and who recognized the electromagnetic nature of light (1831-1879) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | millikan, robert andrews millikan, |
| definition | : | United States physicist who isolated the electron and measured its charge (1868-1953) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | louis eugene felix neel, neel, |
| definition | : | French physicist noted for research on magnetism (born in 1904) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | nernst, walther hermann nernst, |
| definition | : | German physicist and chemist who formulated the third law of thermodynamics (1864-1941) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | isaac newton, newton, sir isaac newton, |
| definition | : | English mathematician and physicist; remembered for developing the calculus and for his law of gravitation and his three laws of motion (1642-1727) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | georg simon ohm, ohm, |
| definition | : | German physicist who formulated Ohm's law (1787-1854) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | henri pitot, pitot, |
| definition | : | French physicist for whom the Pitot tube was named (1695-1771) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | max karl ernst ludwig planck, max planck, planck, |
| definition | : | German physicist whose explanation of blackbody radiation in the context of quantized energy emissions initiated quantum theory (1858-1947) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | cecil frank powell, powell, |
| definition | : | English physicist who discovered the pion (the first known meson) which is a subatomic particle involved in holding the nucleus together (1903-1969) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | benjamin thompson, count rumford, thompson, |
| definition | : | English physicist (born in America) who studied heat and friction; experiments convinced him that heat is caused by moving particles (1753-1814) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | joseph john thomson, sir joseph john thomson, thomson, |
| definition | : | English physicist who experimented with the conduction of electricity through gases and who discovered the electron and determined its charge and mass (1856-1940) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | john tyndall, tyndall, |
| definition | : | British physicist (born in Ireland) remembered for his experiments on the transparency of gases and the absorption of radiant heat by gases and the transmission of sound through the atmosphere; he was the first person to explain why the daylight sky is blue (1820-1893) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | james alfred van allen, van allen, |
| definition | : | United States physicist who discovered two belts of charged particles from the solar wind trapped by the Earth's magnetic field (born in 1914) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | weber, wilhelm eduard weber, |
| definition | : | German physicist and brother of E. H. Weber; noted for his studies of terrestrial magnetism (1804-1891) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | steven weinberg, weinberg, |
| definition | : | United States theoretical physicist (born in 1933) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | robert woodrow wilson, wilson, |
| definition | : | United States physicist honored for his work on cosmic microwave radiation (born in 1918) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | william hyde wollaston, wollaston, |
| definition | : | English chemist and physicist who discovered palladium and rhodium and demonstrated that static and current electricity are the same (1766-1828) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | chen n. yang, yang chen ning, |
| definition | : | United States physicist (born in China) who collaborated with Tsung Dao Lee in disproving the principle of conservation of parity (born in 1922) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | thomas young, young, |
| definition | : | British physicist and Egyptologist; he revived the wave theory of light and proposed a three-component theory of color vision; he also played an important role in deciphering the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta Stone (1773-1829) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | pieter zeeman, zeeman, |
| definition | : | Dutch physicist honored for his research on the influence of magnetism on radiation which showed that light is radiated by the motion of charged particles in an atom (1865-1943) (noun.person) |
| domain category | : | natural philosophy, physics, |
| definition | : | the science of matter and energy and their interactions (noun.cognition) |
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