astrophysicist

Noun
  1. An astronomer who studies the physical properties of celestial bodies (synset 109838696)
    is a type of: astronomer, stargazer, uranologist - a physicist who studies astronomy
    specific instances:
    • fred hoyle, hoyle, sir fred hoyle - an English astrophysicist and advocate of the steady state theory of cosmology; described processes of nucleosynthesis inside stars (1915-2001)
    • edwin hubble, edwin powell hubble, hubble - United States astronomer who discovered that (as the universe expands) the speed with which nebulae recede increases with their distance from the observer (1889-1953)

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