Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An astronomer who occupies himself with astrophysics.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun an astronomer who studies the physical properties of celestial bodies.
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- noun One who studies
astrophysics .
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- noun an astronomer who studies the physical properties of celestial bodies
Etymologies
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Examples
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Neil deGrasse Tyson, world renowned astrophysicist, is doing a live taping of his interactive radio show, Star Talk, tomorrow at 8 PM on Chataboutit. com.
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Ravi Sood, an astrophysicist from the University of New South Wales who was overseeing the balloon launch, said quick-changing wind conditions can cause difficulties for launching such large balloons.
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Hint: the name of the astrophysicist is Sean M. Carroll.
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Roddenberry doesn't name the astrophysicist, but she is almost certainly Sallie Baliunas, who indeed has fixed up cars into hot rods and was a friend of Majel Barrett Roddenberry.
On Being Inspired by Women Scientists Peggy 2009
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Prof. Teitsch the astrophysicist was the chief scientist of the project.
Planet Mechanica Scheer, Karl 1977
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But astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson talks about 'end of Earth' scenarios, and others, in his book Death by Black Hole.
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Each of these pieces of ancient cosmic data "represents a little moment of history, and it's sending out information about how much the universe has stretched," said Dr. Perlmutter, who is also an astrophysicist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California.
Nobel Given for Study of Universe Expansion Gautam Naik 2011
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He found his own way as a caregiver by thinking back to a day in 2006, when he and Gabby had lunch with Stephen Hawking , the legendary British astrophysicist who is paralyzed with a form of Lou Gehrig's disease.
Amid Fear and Pain, Lessons in Love Jeffrey Zaslow 2011
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When Thor is exiled to Earth, cosmic bombast gives way to the terrestrial banality of his romance with Natalie Portman's astrophysicist, Jane, who talks earnestly about resolving her particle data and knows about Einstein-Rosen bridges, the fanciful wormholes through which bad guys and good guys alike shuttle between realms like Metro North commuters.
'Thor': A Vehicle of Low Norsepower Joe Morgenstern 2011
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I'm a huge space freak and wanted to be an astrophysicist.
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