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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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).

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a classic French speaker mistake because physicist is "physicien" and physician is "médecin", very different.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

(And Russian)