The Skills and Education Required to Become a Physicist

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Across
  1. 1. The ability to express oneself easily and articulately; in a technical sense, to use a system with intuitive ease.
  2. 4. A branch of mathematics, developed by Newton and Leibniz, that deals with finding rates of change and areas, and is fundamental to describing the physical world.
  3. 8. A room or building equipped for scientific experiments, research, or teaching.
  4. 9. Existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence.
  5. 10. Relating to or characterized by large-scale manufacturing, business, or other commercial operations.
  6. 11. A popular, high-level computer programming language widely used by scientists for data analysis, simulation, and modeling.
  7. 12. Concerned with the ideas and principles on which a subject is based, rather than with its practical applications.
  8. 15. The capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness.
  9. 16. An experienced and trusted adviser who guides a younger or less experienced person.
  10. 17. Relating to or using logical reasoning and the separation of a whole into its parts to understand it.
  11. 19. A long essay or treatise on a particular subject, especially one written as a requirement for the Doctor of Philosophy degree.
Down
  1. 2. To work jointly on an activity or project.
  2. 3. The minimum amount of any physical entity or property involved in an interaction; also describes the strange mechanics of the subatomic world.
  3. 5. The action or process of writing computer software.
  4. 6. Relating to or involving the imagination or original ideas, especially in the production of an artistic work or a new scientific theory.
  5. 7. A strong desire to know or learn something.
  6. 12. A shortened, informal name for the branch of physics that deals with heat, work, and temperature, and their relation to energy and radiation.
  7. 13. Relating to a college, university, or other institution of higher education and research.
  8. 14. Based on observation, or experience rather than theory or pure logic; concerned with the practical hands-on aspect of science.
  9. 18. The universe seen as a well-ordered whole.