geophysicist
geophysicist noun: a physicist who specializes in geophysics.
Noun
geophysicist (plural geophysicists)
- A physicist who specializes in geophysics.
- Yevgeny K. Fedorov, one of the Soviet Union's leading geophysicists, died Wednesday, Tass, the official press agency, reported today. He was 71 years old.1982 January 3, Reuters, “YEVGENY FEDOROV, AGED 71; A MAJOR SOVIET GEOPHYSICIST”, in The New York Times
- “The lack of an agreement to phase out fossil fuels was devastating,” said Prof Michael Mann, a climatologist and geophysicist at the University of Pennsylvania in the US.2023 December 14, Damian Carrington, quoting Michael E. Mann, “Failure of Cop28 on fossil fuel phase-out is ‘devastating’, say scientists”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
Forms of geophysicist
| plural | geophysicists |
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Origin of geophysicist
From geo- + physicist.
Words formed from geophysicist
Questions about geophysicist
- What does geophysicist mean?
- Geophysicist means a physicist who specializes in geophysics.
- What part of speech is geophysicist?
- Geophysicist is a noun.
- What is the plural of geophysicist?
- The plural of geophysicist is geophysicists.
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