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[Shapiro, Fred]

physicist (OED, 2., 1837)

1837 William Whewell History of the Inductive Sciences 3: 67 (Google Books)  If Galvani had been as good a physicist as he was an anatomist, he would probably have seen the the movements so occasioned, proved only that the muscles or nerves, or the two together, formed a very sensitive indicator of electrical action.

Fred Shapiro

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