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What's a Physicist?
Physicists develop theories about matter and energy, the ‘stuff of everything’. They discover why things work and try to understand the basic laws of the physical world. Often this takes physicists off Planet Earth and into outer space as they try and piece together when and how life on earth began. In the U.S., physicists earn between $52,000 and $81,000 a year.