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a person who stares at the universe until it confesses its math.
means A scientist who studies matter, energy, and the fundamental laws governing how they behave.
from From Greek 'physis,' meaning 'nature' — the same root that gives us 'physics' and even 'physician' (originally just 'one who knows nature'). The word 'physicist' itself is a relatively late English coinage, an early-19th-century invention reportedly proposed to give natural philosophers a name as tidy as their equations.
- Feynman's locks
- He cracked safes at the atomic bomb lab for fun
- Newton's hobby
- Spent more time on alchemy than gravity
- Curie's notebooks
- Still radioactive, stored in lead-lined boxes
- Einstein's brain
- Stolen at autopsy, kept in jars for decades
albert einstein — developed theory of relativity and mass-energy equivalence (e=mc²), 1905
isaac newton — formulated laws of motion and universal gravitation, 1687
marie curie — discovered polonium and radium, won two nobel prizes, 1903-1911
richard feynman — contributed to quantum electrodynamics, nobel prize 1965