astrophysicist
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7.2
- noun
- /ˌæstroʊˈfɪzɪsɪst/
- Specialized
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astrofísico
- As an astrophysicist, she studies the physical properties of stars and galaxies.
- astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson
- astrophysicist Fang Lizhi
- astrophysicist Fang
So what have astrophysicists done to solve this problem?
- So what have astrophysicists done to solve this problem?
- The one the only, your own personal astrophysicist, Doctor Neil deGrasse Tyson.
- Well, Fermi was an astrophysicist or astronomer, I think.
- This is a maxim attributed to the late astrophysicist Carl Sagan.
- So we talk all about this, why Avi believes it, why other astrophysicists do not.
- Tonight's speaker, Michael Johnson, is an astrophysicist and member of the Event Horizon Telescope team.
- I always get asked, you're a scientist, you're an astrophysicist, what do you actually do all day?
- And Kip Thorne is a cosmologist, astrophysicist, and he was very clear with Chris Nolan.
- They are written for other experts, other astrophysicists.
- She was a mathematician and astrophysicist.
- So the first humans that will hear hear the signal sent by aliens will be Chinese astrophysicists.
- It still boggles my mind that almost all astrophysicists actually believe that this WIMP miracle meant something.
Examples
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MARIO LIVIO is a senior astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland.
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He is, as you know, a senior astrophysicist at the Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute.
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This figure shows how astrophysicists think this works.
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So what have astrophysicists done to solve this problem?
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When talking about such photons, astrophysicists generally speak in terms of energy instead of wavelength.
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The brilliant English astrophysicist Sir Arthur Eddington immediately recognized the importance of Aston's measurements.
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Without further ado, the author of the new book Letters from an Astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson.
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I think that movie had a great influence," says Yoji Kondo, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
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Understanding phenomena at Io is therefore essential for evaluating theoretical models that astrophysicists apply elsewhere in the universe.
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John Bahcall (www.sns.ias.edu/jnb) is an astrophysicist at the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
Academic text (2001)
Synonyms
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2.1
A person who studies science and does experiments to find new facts
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4.5
A person who studies matter, energy, and how nature works
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3.4
A person who studies stars, planets, and other things in space
A scientist who studies the stars and space
How Experienced
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5.5
- Specialized
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7.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
astrophysicist = astrophysics (transparent) = astro + physic + ist
The word is formed regularly from astrophysics plus the agentive suffix -ist, so its meaning as a specialist in that field is straightforward.
Etymology
The word astrophysicist comes from two parts: astro- meaning 'star', seen in astronomy and astronaut, and physicist from physics, meaning 'the study of nature and its laws'. So an astrophysicist is a scientist who studies the physical laws of stars and other things in space.