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nuclear physicist en · NOUN

Etymology

From nuclear physics + -ist.

Meanings

1. A scientist of nuclear physics.
   • And Theodore Taylor, the nuclear physicist who designed America's smallest and largest atomic bombs, has repeatedly stated that given fissile material, building a bomb is "very easy. Double underline. Very easy." 2004, Graham Allison, Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 93:
   • Certainly it would be better if he were a nuclear physicist. On the other hand, I believe that a team of that sort would give stronger support to industrial work than a team of four nuclear engineers. 1962, United States Atomic Energy Commission, Proceedings of the Conference on Progress in Nuclear Education Held at Gatlinburg, Tennessee, August 20-22, 1962, page 184:
   • Explaining the history is a nuclear physicist who is also an accomplished writer. 1982, Boyd Norton, "The Early Years" in, Nuclear Power, Both Sides: The Best Arguments for and Against the Most Controversial Technology, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 15:

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Translations (11)

pl jądrowiec (scientist of nuclear physics) · sv kärnfysiker (scientist of nuclear physics) · hi नाभिकीय भौतिकशास्त्री (scientist of nuclear physics) · fi ydinfyysikko (scientist of nuclear physics) · da kernefysiker (scientist of nuclear physics) · de Kernphysiker (scientist of nuclear physics) · de Kernphysikerin (scientist of nuclear physics) · cmn 核物理學家 /核物理学家 (scientist of nuclear physics) · es físico nuclear (scientist of nuclear physics) · ja 核物理学者 (scientist of nuclear physics) · nl kernfysicus (scientist of nuclear physics)