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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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great
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Richard Feynman, said to be the greatest theoretical physicist of modern times, stated that no-one understands quantum mechanics.
nuclear
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Oliphant, a nuclear physicist , was new to radio technology - as were most of those he later recruited.
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Very few writers are nuclear physicists , firefighters, etc.
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Ninety-two elements exist in nature and another dozen or so have been made by nuclear physicists .
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What the little company did have was the vision and fierce determination of its leader, nuclear physicist John Robert Beyster.
theoretical
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These will be the outstanding problems for theoretical physicists in the next twenty years or so.
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Undoubtedly, the human interest story of how I have managed to be a theoretical physicist despite my disability has helped.
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So maybe the end is in sight for theoretical physicists , if not for theoretical physics.
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Not, alas, from one ex-Colorado theoretical physicist .
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The theoretical physicist gets more credit than the experimental because the behavior of the latter clearly depends on laboratory practice and observation.
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Scientists, especially theoretical physicists , are all awaiting the next revolutionary breakthrough that overthrows the paradigms of theory and practice.
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That is certainly how those years are enshrined in the folk memory of theoretical physicists .
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Richard Feynman, said to be the greatest theoretical physicist of modern times, stated that no-one understands quantum mechanics.
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particle
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Rather than see this as a problem, the particle physicists see it as an opportunity.
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If basic math stumps you, there might not be a future for you as a particle physicist .
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It is this state that fascinates particle physicists .
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This dark matter is of special interest to the particle physicists .
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Not being a particle physicist , I shall leave the complete renaming process to people who are better qualified.
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If basic math stumps you, there might not be a future for you as a particle physicist .
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Most physicists would claim that the fundamental laws operative at the scale of a human brain are indeed all perfectly well known.
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Shevek is a brilliant physicist working on a Theory of Simultaneity.
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The 33-year-old physicist lashed his camera to an ice-pick and took the photo by setting the timer.
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Undoubtedly, the human interest story of how I have managed to be a theoretical physicist despite my disability has helped.
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When Kurt had finished his training as a physicist , there had been sixteen other graduates on his course.
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You and your fellow physicists should look out from your ivory towers from time to time.