In addition to "scientist," did Whewell coin the term "physicist"?
Yes
No
He proposed but it was turned down
It's not clear
Answer
Yes, William Whewell coined the term "physicist" in the 1840s. He also coined the terms "scientist" and "geologist". The word "physicist" was originally used to describe someone who studied natural philosophy, but it has since come to mean someone who studies physics, the branch of science that deals with the properties and interactions of matter and energy.
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