Definition of "biophysicist" [biophysicist]

• A biologist or physicist whose speciality is biophysics (noun)

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• "By the time of my Abitur - the examination providing access to university - it was clear to me that I should become a 'biophysicist'."
• "Dr. Ernest McCulloch, who with biophysicist James E. Till was the first to isolate and identify a stem cell, opening the door immediately to bone marrow transplants and eventually to what researchers expect will be a host of treatments for a broad spectrum of ailments including spinal cord injuries and Alzheimer's disease, died Jan. 20 in Toronto."
• ""Energy and water mix hand in hand," says environmental biophysicist Susan Riha of Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. With hydraulic fracturing, she says, potential risks range from the chance of chemicals such as benzene leaking into local drinking water to landscape damage to questions about who benefits from a new energy boom."