nuclear physicist
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1. a physicist who specializes in nuclear physics (noun.person)
hypernym | : | physicist, |
definition | : | a scientist trained in physics (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | anderson, carl anderson, carl david anderson, |
definition | : | United States physicist who discovered antimatter in the form of an antielectron that is called the positron (1905-1991) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | bethe, hans albrecht bethe, hans bethe, |
definition | : | United States physicist (born in Germany) noted for research in astrophysics and nuclear physics (1906-2005) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | bohr, niels bohr, niels henrik david bohr, |
definition | : | Danish physicist who studied atomic structure and radiations; the Bohr theory of the atom accounted for the spectrum of hydrogen (1885-1962) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | born, max born, |
definition | : | British nuclear physicist (born in Germany) honored for his contributions to quantum mechanics (1882-1970) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | bose, satyendra n. bose, satyendra nath bose, |
definition | : | Indian physicist who with Albert Einstein proposed statistical laws based on the indistinguishability of particles; led to the description of fundamental particles that later came to be known as bosons (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | broglie, de broglie, louis victor de broglie, |
definition | : | French nuclear physicist who generalized the wave-particle duality by proposing that particles of matter exhibit wavelike properties (1892-1987) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | arthur compton, arthur holly compton, compton, |
definition | : | United States physicist noted for research on x-rays and gamma rays and nuclear energy; his observation that X-rays behave like miniature bowling balls in their interactions with electrons provided evidence for the quantal nature of light (1892-1962) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | dirac, paul adrien maurice dirac, |
definition | : | English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | enrico fermi, fermi, |
definition | : | Italian nuclear physicist (in the United States after 1939) who worked on artificial radioactivity caused by neutron bombardment and who headed the group that in 1942 produced the first controlled nuclear reaction (1901-1954) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | frisch, otto frisch, otto robert frisch, |
definition | : | British physicist (born in Austria) who with Lise Meitner recognized that Otto Hahn had produced a new kind of nuclear reaction which they named nuclear fission; Frisch described the explosive potential of a chain nuclear reaction (1904-1979) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | gell-mann, murray gell-mann, |
definition | : | United States physicist noted for his studies of subatomic particles (born in 1929) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | heisenberg, werner karl heisenberg, |
definition | : | German mathematical physicist noted for stating the uncertainty principle (1901-1976) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | gustav hertz, gustav ludwig hertz, hertz, |
definition | : | German physicist who with James Franck proved the existence of the stationary energy states postulated by Bohr (1887-1975) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | gerhard herzberg, herzberg, |
definition | : | Canadian physicist (born in Germany) noted for contributions to understanding the structure of molecules (born in 1904) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | lee, tsung dao lee, |
definition | : | United States physicist (born in China) who collaborated with Yang Chen Ning in disproving the principle of conservation of parity (born in 1926) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | marie goeppert mayer, mayer, |
definition | : | United States physicist (born in Germany) noted for her research on the structure of the atom (1906-1972) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | lise meitner, meitner, |
definition | : | Swedish physicist (born in Austria) who worked in the field of radiochemistry with Otto Hahn and formulated the concept of nuclear fission with Otto Frisch (1878-1968) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | karl alex muller, muller, |
definition | : | Swiss physicist who studied superconductivity (born in 1927) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | oppenheimer, robert oppenheimer, |
definition | : | United States physicist who directed the project at Los Alamos that developed the first atomic bomb (1904-1967) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | pauli, wolfgang pauli, |
definition | : | United States physicist (born in Austria) who proposed the exclusion principle (thus providing a theoretical basis for the periodic table) (1900-1958) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | leo szilard, szilard, |
definition | : | United States physicist and molecular biologist who helped develop the first atom bomb and later opposed the use of all nuclear weapons (1898-1964) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | edward teller, teller, |
definition | : | United States physicist (born in Hungary) who worked on the first atom bomb and the first hydrogen bomb (1908-2003) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | eugene paul wigner, eugene wigner, wigner, |
definition | : | United States physicist (born in Hungary) noted for his work on the structure of the atom and its nucleus (1902-1995) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | hideki yukawa, yukawa, |
definition | : | Japanese mathematical physicist who proposed that nuclear forces are mediated by massive particles called mesons which are analogous to the photon in mediating electromagnetic forces (1907-1981) (noun.person) |
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