physicist

scientist who does research in physics
Intangible profession Q169470
physicist
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Summary

physicist is a profession[1]. physicist ranks in the top 5% of profession entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,689 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: physical scientist[3], scientist[4]
  • Part of: physicists and astronomers[5]
  • Commons category: Physicists[6]
  • Field of this occupation: physics[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Physicists[8]
  • ISCO-88 occupation class: 2111[9]
  • Stack Exchange tag: https://hsm.stackexchange.com/tags/physicists[10]
  • NCI Thesaurus ID: C53446[11]
  • Different from: physician[12], Fizyk[13]
  • Uses: physics terminology[14], mathematical terminology[15]
  • Female form of label: فيزيائية[16], فيزيائى[17], física[18], Physikarin[19], fyzička[20], Physikerin[21], fizikistino[22], physicienne[23], Füüsikeri[24], פיזיקאית[25], fyzikarka[26], fisica[27], fiziciană[28], учёная-физик[29]
  • Male form of label: فيزيائيه[30], Physika[31], Physiker[32], fizikistulo[33], físico[34], fizikanmez'[35], hifüsüdan[36], physicien[37], פיזיקאי[38], fisico[39], fizyk[40], fizikas[41], fizik[42], фізик[43]

Why It Matters

physicist has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[44] physicist is known by 67 alternative names across languages and contexts.[45]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [44] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [45] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 5w ago · Franzekafka · 2026-09-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Female form of label → فيزيائية, فيزيائى, física +27
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Female form of label: фізикиня"
  2. 12w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → physicists
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: physicists, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289950090|physicists (#289950090)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #m"
  3. 18w ago · Hannolans · 2026-06-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → physicists and astronomers
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Part of: physicists and astronomers"
  4. 19w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0002774-fyzici, 0273198-fyzicky
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0002774-fyzici, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259547|batch #259547]]"
  5. 22w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Nci thesaurus id → C53446
    Local thumb → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ Yso id: 18632, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
  6. 24w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-05-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    Bncf thesaurus id → 28902
    Gnd id → 4045968-8
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Gnd id: 4337175-9, Moving to Q139680045"
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