• Hobo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I think the word you’re looking for is physicist. A physician is a medical doctor (as in a person that treats sick people). A physicist is a person that studies physics (as in a person that knows how to solve word problems involving pool tables).

    • oce 🐆@jlai.lu
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      It’s a classic French speaker mistake because physicist is “physicien” and physician is “médecin”, very different.