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Physicist

A physicist is a scientist trained in physics. Physicists are employed by universities as professors, by laboratories as researchers[?], and a substantial number can be found in industry.

Employment as a physicist generally requires a doctoral degree.

See also the Nobel Prize in physics, scientists, biography, Famous Physicists

Note: Physicians are doctors and people devoted to medicine.

See also: List of physicists


There are no physicists in the hottest parts of Hell, because the existence of a 'hottest part' implies a temperature difference, and any marginally competent physicist would immediately use this to run a heat engine and make some other part of Hell comfortably cool. This is obviously impossible.
-Richard Davisson[?]



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