The term " Physicist " was coined by English philosopher, priest, and historian of science William Whewell in 1840, to denote a cultivator of physics.

Physicist Robert Park states that parapsychology's reported positive results are problematic because most such findings are invariably at the margin of statistical significance and that might be explained by a number of confounding effects ; Park states that such marginal results are a typical symptom of pathological science as described by Irving Langmuir.

* Melba Phillips ( Physicist and science educator )

* Physicist discovered key to brain science The Sydney Morning Herald, 6 June 2012, reprinted from The New York Times.

Physicist Lawrence M. Krauss suggests that identifying degrees of certainty is under-appreciated in various domains, including policy making and the understanding of science.

Physicist Thomas Brophy, in The Mechanism Demands a Mysticism, embraces hylozoism as the basis of a framework for re-integrating modern physical science with perennial spiritual philosophy.

Physicist Murray Gell-Mann for example acknowledged that " when biological evolution — based on largely random variation in genetic material and on natural selection — operates on the structure of actual organisms, it does so subject to the laws of physical science, which place crucial limitations on how living things can be constructed .".

Physicist David Deutsch showed in 1991 that this model of computation could solve NP problems in polynomial time, and Scott Aaronson later extended this result to show that the model could also be used to solve PSPACE problems in polynomial time.

Physicist Lei Xu and coworkers at the University of Chicago discovered that the splash due to the impact of a small drop of ethanol onto a dry solid surface could be suppressed by reducing the pressure below a specific threshold.

In 1986, following the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster, American Physicist Richard Feynmann, having served on the Rogers Commission estimated that the chance of an unsafe condition for a launch of the Shuttle was very roughly 1 %; more recently the historical per person-flight risk in orbital spaceflight has been calculated to be around 2 % or 4 %.

Physicist Issac Newton is considered to be one of the greatest scientists of all time.

Physicist Julius Edgar Lilienfeld filed a patent for a field-effect transistor ( FET ) in Canada in 1925, which was intended to be a solid-state replacement for the triode.

Physicist Lee Smolin has written that if such cosmic rays which violate the GZK limit can be confirmed, and other possible explanations discounted, it " would be the most momentous discovery of the last hundred years — the first breakdown of the basic theories comprising the twentieth century's scientific revolution.

Physicist Stephen Hawking, at a White House lecture in 1999, remarked that if there is no space colonization, population expansion continued unabated and the people of the Earth continued to use power at the rate they did then, then by the year 2600 people would be standing shoulder to shoulder and the Earth would glow red hot.

Apart from Captain Kirk, the episode introduced two other regular characters to the show: James Doohan, a friend of director James Goldstone, was cast as the Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott ( the name chosen after Doohan had tried various accents, and had decided that an engineer ought to be Scottish ) and George Takei was cast as Ship's Physicist Sulu, who would become the helmsman in the regular series.

Physicist Dr. James E. McDonald, for example, wrote to Hynek in 1970, castigating him for what McDonald saw as his lapses, and suggesting that, when evaluated by later generations, retired Marine Corps Major Donald E. Keyhoe would be regarded as a more objective, honest, and scientific ufologist.

Physicist Lionel Barrett is enlisted by an eccentric millionaire, Mr. Deutsch, to make an investigation into " survival after death " in " the one place where it has yet to be refuted ".

Physicist Conrad Longmire has given numerical values for a typical case of the E1 pulse produced by a second generation nuclear weapon such as those used in high altitude tests of Operation Fishbowl in 1962.

In the case of hospital work the term ' Medical Physicist ' is the title of a specific healthcare profession with a specific mission statement ( see below ).

* Investigation Finds that One Lucent Physicist Engaged in Scientific Misconduct Physics Today, 2002

* " My Son, the Physicist " ( first published in Feb. 1962 issue of Scientific American )

Huxley was Physicist, Radio Research Board, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research 1929 to 1931 ; Lecturer in Physics, University College, Leicester 1932 to 1940 ; Principal Scientific Officer, Ministry of Aircraft Production, UK 1940 to 1946 ; Reader in Electromagnetism, University of Birmingham 1946 to 1949 ; Professor of Physics, University of Adelaide 1949 to 1960 ; Vice-Chancellor, Australian National University 1960 to 1967.

Physicist Lawrence Krauss has written The Physics of Star Trek, a book which postulates what phenomena might make some Star Trek technology feasible, while detailing the blunders the show has made.

Physicist Philip Ball, writing in Nature Materials, discusses this episode and concludes " Do we, like Feynman, always underestimate what our current technologies can achieve?

* 1945 – Physicist Harry K. Daghlian, Jr. is fatally irradiated in a criticality accident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

* 1959 – Physicist Richard Feynman gives a speech entitled " There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom ", which is regarded as the birth of nanotechnology.

* 1946 – Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Since June 2009 its president is the Space Physicist Dr. Michael Danielides.

Physicist Lee Smolin writes in Three Roads to Quantum Gravity that topos theory is " the right form of logic for cosmology " ( page 30 ) and " In its first forms it was called ' intuitionistic logic '" ( page 31 ).

Physicist Albert Einstein is one of the most well known scientists of the 20th century.

Physicist Stephen Hawking, in his book A Brief History of Time, suggests that " alerting " extraterrestrial intelligences of our existence is foolhardy, citing mankind's history of treating his fellow man harshly in meetings of civilizations with a significant technology gap.

Physicist John G. Cramer at the University of Washington is attempting to replicate one of these experiments and demonstrate whether or not it can produce superluminal communication.

Physicist Adrian Melott and paleontologist Richard Bambach have more recently verified the Raup and Sepkoski finding, but argue that it is not consistent with the characteristics expected of a Nemesis-style periodicity.

A different response, advocated by Physicist Max Tegmark in 2007, is that physics is so successfully described by mathematics because the physical world is completely mathematical, isomorphic to a mathematical structure, and that we are simply uncovering this bit by bit.

Physicist Lawrence M. Krauss says this is for a simple reason: " it looks good.

Physicist Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker's theory of ur-alternatives ( archetypal objects ), first publicized in his book The Unity of Nature ( 1980 ), further developed through the 1990s, is a kind of digital physics as it axiomatically constructs quantum physics from the distinction between empirically observable, binary alternatives.

*: Physicist turned historian Spencer R. Weart disagrees with this, saying, " It is not because of their advanced economic development — wealthy countries fight wars about as often as poor ones.

Physicist Paul Davies has asserted that " There is now broad agreement among physicists and cosmologists that the Universe is in several respects ‘ fine-tuned ' for life ".

* Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist is published by Russell McCormmach.

Under such circumstances, it is necessary to take the negative square root for n. Physicist Victor Veselago proved that such substances can transmit light.

Physicist Carlo Rovelli adds that certainty, in real life, is useless or often damaging ( the idea is that " total security from error " is impossible in practice, and a complete " lack of doubt " is undesirable ).