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físico

Definitions of físico
  1. noun
    alternative names for the body of a human being
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    types:
    persona
    a human body (usually including the clothing)
    cuerpo adulto
    the body of an adult human being
    cuerpo masculino
    the body of a male human being
    cuerpo femenino
    the body of a female human being
    cuerpo de niño
    the body of a human child
    cuerpo adulto femenino, cuerpo de mujer
    the body of an adult woman
    cuerpo adulto masculino, cuerpo de hombre
    the body of an adult man
    type of:
    cuerpo
    the entire structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being)
  2. noun
    a scientist trained in physics
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    examples:
    John Dalton
    English chemist and physicist who formulated atomic theory and the law of partial pressures; gave the first description of red-green color blindness (1766-1844)
    Albert Einstein
    physicist born in Germany who formulated the special theory of relativity and the general theory of relativity; Einstein also proposed that light consists of discrete quantized bundles of energy (later called photons) (1879-1955)
    Michael Faraday
    the English physicist and chemist who discovered electromagnetic induction (1791-1867)
    Hans Geiger
    German physicist who developed the Geiger counter (1882-1945)
    Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz
    German physiologist and physicist (1821-1894)
    Heinrich Rudolph Hertz
    German physicist who was the first to produce electromagnetic waves artificially (1857-1894)
    Isaac Newton
    English mathematician and physicist; remembered for developing the calculus and for his law of gravitation and his three laws of motion (1642-1727)
    George Simon Ohm
    German physicist who formulated Ohm's law (1787-1854)
    Arthur Stanley Eddington
    English astronomer remembered for his popular elucidation of relativity theory (1882-1944)
    Robert Oppenheimer
    United States physicist who directed the project at Los Alamos that developed the first atomic bomb (1904-1967)
    Ptolomeo
    Alexandrian astronomer (of the 2nd century) who proposed a geocentric system of astronomy that was undisputed until the late Renaissance
    types:
    astrónomo
    a physicist who studies astronomy
    astrofísico
    an astronomer who studies the physical properties of celestial bodies
    cosmólogo
    an astronomer who studies the evolution and space-time relations of the universe
    type of:
    científico
    a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences
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