nuclear physicist

noun

A scientist of nuclear physics.

Meanings

nounnuclear physicist (plural nuclear physicists)

plural nuclear physicists

  1. A scientist of nuclear physics.

    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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    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

    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

Origin

Translations

Chinese Mandarin 核物理學家 /核物理学家
  • 核物理學家 /核物理学家 (héwùlǐxuéjiā)scientist of nuclear physics
Danish kernefysiker
  • kernefysikerscientist of nuclear physics
Dutch kernfysicus
  • kernfysicusscientist of nuclear physics
Finnish ydinfyysikko
  • ydinfyysikkoscientist of nuclear physics
German Kernphysiker, Kernphysikerin
  • Kernphysikerscientist of nuclear physics
  • Kernphysikerinscientist of nuclear physics
Hindi नाभिकीय भौतिकशास्त्री
  • नाभिकीय भौतिकशास्त्री (nābhikīya bhautikśāstrī)scientist of nuclear physics
Japanese 核物理学者
  • 核物理学者scientist of nuclear physics
Polish jądrowiec
  • jądrowiecscientist of nuclear physics
Spanish físico nuclear
  • físico nuclearscientist of nuclear physics
Swedish kärnfysiker
  • kärnfysikerscientist of nuclear physics
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APA

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Chicago

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