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physicist
vr.tr.physicist · thing-q169470
Let an agent handle physicists by field, notable work, careers, education and recognition, with sourced biographies.
Thing Registry Society, people and institutions SOC.PER
Bundle → Layer → Finding → QuestionsClassifiersWhat it isWhy it existsDistinguishing featuresWhat robots and AI may and may not doMoral aspectsOwnersLinks to other meta-modelsIdentity and identifiersDirect propertiesRecognitionCapabilities and actionsHazards and failure modesStandards and interfacesContext of useSources
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Person Which physicist.
Biography
Life and work.
Biography
Biography.
- What are the main facts of this physicist life and work, according to reliable sources? provenance
- Which discoveries are they known for? provenance
Credit
Attribution.
Credit
Attribution.
- Was the discovery made by a collaboration, and how is credit shared? provenance
- Were contributors overlooked historically? boundary
Fields Areas.
Area
Field.
Area
Field.
- Which field of physics did they work in? definition
- How can it be explained simply? action
Applications
Uses.
Applications
Applications.
- How is their work applied in technology or medicine? provenance
- Which examples are documented? provenance
Career Becoming a physicist.
Education
Study.
Education
Education.
- What education leads to a career in physics? provenance
- Which programmes support students? provenance
Jobs
Careers.
Jobs
Careers.
- Which sectors employ physicists? provenance
- Which professional societies support them? provenance
Recognition Prizes.
Prizes
Awards.
Prizes
Awards.
- Who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in a given year, according to the Nobel Foundation? provenance
- For what work? provenance
Diversity
Representation.
Diversity
Representation.
- What do professional bodies report about diversity in physics? provenance
- Which initiatives exist? provenance
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Society, people and institutions
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- SOC
- Domain
- SOC.PER
- Other names and narrower kinds
- applied physicist, geophysicist, acoustician, atomic physicist, accelerator physicist, thermophysicist, Principal Physicist, fluid mechanist, econophysicist, radiophysicist, photonics scientist, health physicist
What it is Filled
A scientist who studies physics, the fundamental properties of matter, energy, space and time, working in research, teaching, industry or government in fields such as particle, atomic, condensed matter, applied, geo- and astrophysics.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent handle physicists by field, notable work, careers, education and recognition, with sourced biographies.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Works with physical theory or experiment
- Many subfields
- Uses mathematics heavily
- Often in large collaborations
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Attribute work or quotes to a physicist without a source.
- Present a person as a physicist or expert when they are not, to lend authority.
- Publish personal information about physicists beyond their public role.
- Assist in applying physics to build weapons that target people.
Only with a human decision
- Correcting public records about a person's credentials or work.
May
- Report a physicist's work and affiliations from publications and official sources.
- Credit discoveries to the people who made them.
Moral aspects Filled
- Credit in physics has often been denied to women and junior researchers.
- Physicists' work can serve both public good and weapons, raising questions of conscience.
Who is affected
- Physicists
- Students
- The public that relies on science
Owners Filled
Steward
Nobody owns the profession; universities, employers and professional societies record credentials.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q124637774 - registry parent class
- Q901 - registry parent class
related
- scientist - category
- physics - field
- Nobel Prize in Physics - award
- mathematician - related profession
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.physicist
- Wikidata: Q169470 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q169470)
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane SOC: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Research papers and experiments
- Academic, industrial and government roles
- Engineers apply physics with a design focus
- A person; work is visible in papers, experiments, instruments and lectures.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- find biographies of physicists
- explain fields of physics
- describe education and career routes
- find major prizes and their winners
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Unsourced biographical claims
- Misattributing discoveries in collaborations
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Professional registration for medical physicists in some countries
- Radiation safety roles
Context of use required Filled
- Doing, applying and teaching physics.
- theoretical physicists
- experimental physicists
- applied physicists
- geophysicists and acousticians
- medical and accelerator physicists
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q169470: physicist - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Physicist - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should each physicist be a separate entry?
- How should collaboration credit be recorded?
- How should fields be linked?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
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