physicist(n.)
"物理学的学生",1836年,来自 physics + -ist。这个词是由英国博学家威廉·休厄尔牧师创造的,用来表示“物理学家”而不是 physician。
As we cannot use physician for a cultivator of physics, I have called him a physicist. We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I should incline to call him a Scientist. Thus we might say, that as an Artist is a Musician, Painter, or Poet, a Scientist is a Mathematician, Physicist, or Naturalist. [William Whewell, "The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences," London, 1840]
由于我们不能用“医生”来表示“物理学家”,我称他为 physicist。我们非常需要一个名称来描述一位通才科学家。我倾向于称他为 Scientist。因此,我们可以说,就像艺术家是音乐家、画家或诗人一样,科学家是数学家、物理学家或自然学家。[威廉·休厄尔,《归纳科学哲学》,伦敦,1840年]
它早期的意义是“精通医学科学的人”(1716年),但这很少见,到19世纪已经过时了。
该词起源时间:1836年