A brief history of the ‘physicist’

Iwan Rhys Morus

doi:10.1038/s42254-025-00806-8

A brief history of the ‘physicist’

Iwan Rhys Morus^*

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Although the practice of doing physics has a long history, the term ‘physicist’ is less than 200 years old. Historian Iwan Rhys Morus traces the roots of the word and discusses its slow acceptance by the community it came to describe.

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Statws	Derbyniwyd/Yn y wasg - 28 Tach 2024

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