Physicist

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A physicist is a scientist who focuses their studies on the subject of physics. Physicists endeavor to increase human understanding of the way in which the world works through empirical study of the universe. Physicists can be broadly characterized as experimental physicists, who conduct experiments, and theoretical physicists, who endeavor to create mathematical models that match observed data or predict as-yet-undiscovered phenomena.

Some well-known physicists include:

• Isaac Newton, founder of classical mechanics
• Michael Faraday, discoverer of many ingredients of electromagnetism
• James Clerk Maxwell, who formalized electromagnetic theory
• Marie Curie, who led some of the first research in radioactivity
• Max Planck, early contributor to quantum mechanics
• Albert Einstein, creator of special and general theories of relativity
• Neils Bohr, major contributor to quantum mechanics
• Erwin Schrödinger, major contributor to quantum mechanics
• Werner Heisenberg, discoverer of the uncertainty principle in quantum mechanics
• Paul Dirac, theoretical physicist, major contributor to quantum mechanics
• Enrico Fermi, who constructed the first artificial nuclear reactor
• Richard Feynman, a boisterous personality and a prolific researcher