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1990 edition of the Los Alamos Accelerator Code Group's compendium provides summaries of more than 200 codes. Certain codes are still in use today, although
Accelerator_physics_codes
Physics related to the study, design, building and operation of particle accelerators
Accelerator physics is a branch of applied physics, concerned with designing, building and operating particle accelerators. As such, it can be described
Accelerator_physics
a tracking code. See article on Accelerator physics codes. A. Chao, Physics of Collective Beam Instabilities in High Energy Accelerators, Wiley Publishers
Collective effects (accelerator physics)
Collective_effects_(accelerator_physics)
Scientific software for particle physics
semiconductor devices are modeled. Nuclear physics CLHEP and FreeHEP, libraries for high energy physics. Accelerator physics codes for the modeling of charged particles
Geant4
European particle physics research centre
main function is to provide the particle accelerators and other infrastructure needed for high-energy physics research – consequently, numerous experiments
CERN
Topics referred to by the same term
processing unit or graphics accelerator, a dedicated graphics-rendering device Accelerator (library), a library that allows the coding of programs for a graphics
Accelerator
Concept for a linear particle accelerator
in 2016. Additional detailed studies of the physics case for CLIC, an advanced design of the accelerator complex and the detector, as well as numerous
Compact_Linear_Collider
Numerical simulations of physical problems via computers
essential component of modern research in different areas of physics, namely: accelerator physics, astrophysics, general theory of relativity (through numerical
Computational_physics
Trajectory of a beam of accelerated particles
In accelerator physics, a beamline refers to the trajectory of the beam of particles, including the overall construction of the path segment (guide tubes
Beamline
stability region of phase space in a circular accelerator. In the case of protons or heavy ion accelerators, (or synchrotrons, or storage rings), there
Dynamic aperture (accelerator physics)
Dynamic_aperture_(accelerator_physics)
example of a system with tune shift with amplitude is a pendulum. In accelerator physics, both the transverse and the longitudinal dynamics show tune shift
Tune_shift_with_amplitude
United States Department of Energy national laboratory
Nanomaterials Energy research Nonproliferation Structural biology Accelerator physics Brookhaven National Lab was originally owned by the Atomic Energy
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Brookhaven_National_Laboratory
German-American physicist and engineer (1925-2000)
1985). "Application of permanent magnets in accelerators and electron storage rings". Journal of Applied Physics. 57: 3605–3608. doi:10.1063/1.335021. K.
Klaus_Halbach
Specialized computer hardware
Hardware acceleration is the use of computer hardware, known as a hardware accelerator, to perform specific functions faster than can be done by software running
Hardware_acceleration
International science award since 2012
in Fundamental Physics is one of the Breakthrough Prizes, awarded by the Breakthrough Prize Board. Initially named Fundamental Physics Prize, it was launched
Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
Breakthrough_Prize_in_Fundamental_Physics
Software package for simulating nuclear processes
radiography, medical physics, nuclear criticality safety, detector design and analysis, nuclear oil well logging, accelerator target design, fission
Monte Carlo N-Particle Transport Code
Monte_Carlo_N-Particle_Transport_Code
Waveguides Using CST Particle Studio" (PDF). Proceedings of 2011 Particle Accelerator Conference: 2. Simulations of electron multipactor discharge in the coaxial
Multipactor_effect
Type of particle accelerator
A storage ring is a type of circular particle accelerator in which a continuous or pulsed particle beam may be kept circulating, typically for many hours
Storage_ring
Austrian physicist
Accuracy of Stopping Power Codes and Ion Ranges Used for Hadron Therapy, in: Dzevad Belkic (Ed.): Theory of Heavy Ion Collision Physics in Hadron Therapy, Adv
Helmut_Paul
American accelerator physicist
Collider-Accelerator Department (C-AD) at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Ben-Zvi is most known for his work on accelerator physics, experimental physics, and
Ilan_Ben-Zvi
Computer code system
applications that utilize the radiation transport physics to calculate specific quantities. These codes have been developed by numerous authors over the
EGS_(program)
Rings". arXiv:physics/9903034. "Belgroune et. al., Refined Tracking Procedure For The Soleil Energy Acceptance Calculation" (PDF). "Elegant code, Touschek
Touschek_effect
cosmic ray generator". Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. 626–627:
FLUKA
Fourteenth letter in the Greek alphabet
momentum loss of a beam particle after a two-body interaction in accelerator physics. Dimensionless distance variable used in the Lane–Emden equation
Xi_(letter)
AEGIS (particle physics) AIDA (computing) AILU AIP Conference Proceedings AKLT Model ALBA (synchrotron) ALEPH experiment ALICE (accelerator) ALPHA Collaboration
Index_of_physics_articles_(A)
currently 17 disciplines, from Accelerators & Beams, through Biological Physics and Networks, to Statistical Physics. Five facets include Research Areas
PhySH
1994). "AAPM code of practice for radiotherapy accelerators: Report of AAPM Radiation Therapy Task Group No. 45" (PDF). Medical Physics. 21 (7): 1093–1121
Monitor_unit
simulated high-energy particle physics events. They randomly generate events as those produced in particle accelerators, collider experiments or the early
Event_generator
solar cell Dye laser Dynameter Dynamic aperture Dynamic aperture (accelerator physics) Dynamic equilibrium Dynamic light scattering Dynamic modulus Dynamic
Index_of_physics_articles_(D)
Nuclear research facility in Mumbai, India
multi-layers, accelerator/reactor based fusion-fission studies, nuclear-astrophysics, nuclear data management, reactor based neutrino physics, very high-energy
Bhabha_Atomic_Research_Centre
Computer-aided engineering company
areas of research where CST Studio Suite has been applied include accelerator physics, biological electromagnetics, nanotechnology, and metamaterials.
Simulia_(company)
Specialized electronic circuit that accelerates graphics
basis of the Texas Instruments Graphics Architecture ("TIGA") Windows accelerator cards. Following in 1987, the IBM 8514 graphics system was released.
Graphics_processing_unit
Linux distribution
for Linux distributions that are created and used at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab). These releases have gone through different names:
Fermi_Linux
1988 book by Sharon Traweek
on her observations at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California, US, and KEK High Energy Accelerator Research Organization in Japan. Various
Beamtimes_and_Lifetimes
American physicist
David Bowman Nicodemus (1 July 1916 – 19 June 1999) was a physicist, Physics Professor and Administrator at Oregon State University, and part of the Manhattan
David_B._Nicodemus
CERN LHC experiment
particle detector experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a particle accelerator at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Switzerland
ATLAS_experiment
org/tools/abstract/list http://www.ne.anl.gov/codes/ http://www.irsn.fr/EN/Research/Scientific-tools/Computer-codes/Pages/Computer-codes-2624.aspx https://www.oecd-nea
List of software for nuclear engineering
List_of_software_for_nuclear_engineering
Federal research center in California, US
physics, medical physics and biophysics, and nuclear, particle and accelerator physics. In the area of energy and environmental science, Livermore's emphasis
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Lawrence_Livermore_National_Laboratory
American computer scientist and physicist
S. Department of Energy’s Office of High Energy Physics. Boehnlein joined SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in 2011, where she led the Scientific
Amber_S._Boehnlein
Bulgarian-American physicist (born 1959)
ion beams into heavy elements using GSI's UNILAC (a type of particle accelerator) and analyzing the debris. Though an investigation later determined that
Victor_Ninov
Theory of subatomic structure
In physics, string theory is a theoretical framework in which the point-like particles of particle physics are replaced by one-dimensional objects called
String_theory
American science and engineering research laboratory in Illinois
In 1978, the Argonne Tandem Linac Accelerator System (ATLAS) opened as the world's first superconducting accelerator for projectiles heavier than the electron
Argonne_National_Laboratory
Topics referred to by the same term
linear algebra Short-path distillation Spin Physics Detector, a component of the planned NICA particle accelerator near Moscow, Russia Security Policy Database
SPD_(disambiguation)
Berlin-Mitte, its research activities are in basic research in the fields of physics and engineering and the areas of materials science and electronics/optoelectronics
Paul_Drude_Institute
Topics referred to by the same term
management Active Denial System, US non-lethal weapon ADS amphibious rifle Accelerator-driven system, a type of subcritical reactor Adaptive Damping System
Ads
Synchrotron light source facility in Saskatoon, Canada
List of synchrotron radiation facilities Plasma Physics Laboratory (Saskatchewan) Saskatchewan Accelerator Laboratory Canadian Synchrotron Radiation Facility
Canadian_Light_Source
made an important contribution to the field of physics. Five women have won the Nobel Prize in Physics, awarded annually since 1901 by the Royal Swedish
Women_in_physics
Parallel computing platform and programming model
of the OneAPI initiative, with the goal to create a new open standard accelerator software ecosystem, related open standards and specification projects
CUDA
GPU microarchitecture designed by Nvidia
architectures, 64. The Hopper architecture provides a Tensor Memory Accelerator (TMA), which supports bidirectional asynchronous memory transfer between
Hopper_(microarchitecture)
Type of computer processor
integrated with the 8086/8088 and responded to floating-point machine code operation codes inserted in the 8088 instruction stream. An 8088 processor without
Coprocessor
Italian-American physicist (1901–1954)
things bear Fermi's name. These include the Fermilab particle accelerator and physics lab in Batavia, Illinois, which was renamed in his honour in 1974
Enrico_Fermi
Elementary particle with negative charge
particle accelerators. Interactions involving electrons with other subatomic particles are of interest in fields such as chemistry and nuclear physics. Atoms
Electron
Mathematical technique used to solve a certain class of partial differential equations
In plasma physics, the particle-in-cell (PIC) method refers to a technique used to solve a certain class of partial differential equations. In this method
Particle-in-cell
Town in Moscow Oblast, Russia
known for the 70 GeV proton accelerator which was the largest in the world at the time it was launched in 1967, and other physics research. Town status was
Protvino
Security-related instruction code processor extension
Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) is a set of instruction codes implementing trusted execution environment that are built into some Intel central
Software_Guard_Extensions
Research laboratory in Germany
HZDR is located at the site of the former Central Institute for Nuclear Physics (later: Central Institute for Nuclear Research) in Dresden-Rossendorf,
Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
Helmholtz-Zentrum_Dresden-Rossendorf
Branch of particle physics concerning interactions between two photons
intergalactic to cosmological distances. Two-photon physics can be studied with high-energy particle accelerators, where the accelerated particles are not the
Two-photon_physics
American mathematician and physicist (1922–2018)
Prize in Physics in 1988, along with Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger, for research on neutrinos. He also received the Wolf Prize in Physics in 1982
Leon_M._Lederman
Academic fields of study or professions
Applied physics (outline) Accelerator physics Communication physics Astrophysics Atmospheric physics Atomic, molecular, and optical physics Atomic physics Biophysics
Outline of academic disciplines
Outline_of_academic_disciplines
Technological university in France
invention of the turbo code and the iterative decoding concept. In 1991, researcher Claude Berrou filled his first patent for the Turbo Codes, which are now essential
IMT_Atlantique
Pakistani physicist and a computer programmer
helped write the computer codes for the nuclear devices— he was part of the computer programming team that design the codes for the nuclear devices, codenamed:
Anwar_Ali_(physicist)
1998 action-adventure video game
All weapons must be discarded at the end of each level. Hints and keypad codes appear in unexpected places on walls, often in a level or two before they
Trespasser_(video_game)
Italian particle physicist and Nobel Prize winner (born 1934)
Italian particle physicist and inventor who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984 with Simon van der Meer for work leading to the discovery of the
Carlo_Rubbia
Hacker group
vulnerabilities they had discovered and disclosed to Fermilab, a particle physics and accelerator laboratory. The group was able to gain access to a project ticketing
Sakura_Samurai_(group)
Lise Meitner Lissajous orbit List of accelerator mass spectrometry facilities List of accelerators in particle physics List of alpha-emitting nuclides List
Index_of_physics_articles_(L)
Symmetry between bosons and fermions
conventional particle accelerators and offer a practical alternative to detecting physics beyond the Standard Model as accelerator experiments become increasingly
Supersymmetry
American physicist
Stéphane Willocq is an American physicist. He is a professor of physics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and is involved in the upgrade of the
Stephane_Willocq
Italian-American nuclear physicist and radiochemist (1905–1989)
Laboratory, he was sent a molybdenum strip from the laboratory's cyclotron accelerator in 1937, which was emitting anomalous forms of radioactivity. Using careful
Emilio_Segrè
German particle physicist
Oliver Buchmueller is a scientist and professor of physics at the Faculty of Natural Science, Imperial College London. Buchmueller is presently serving
Oliver_Buchmueller
1998 video game
allowing the player to explore the tracks at will during races. Cheat codes, which can simply be typed in during a race, can be discovered by reaching
Powerslide_(video_game)
Electrical component for processing data
unit (NPU), also known as an AI accelerator or deep learning processor, is a class of specialized hardware accelerator or computer system designed to accelerate
Processor_(computing)
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Index_of_physics_articles_(C)
American sculptor (born 1945)
Center for Energy Studies. Terrestrial Physics, 2009, which includes a full-scale working particle accelerator. It premiered in June 2010 as part of Biennial
Jim_Sanborn
GPU microarchitecture by Nvidia
cache coherency and therefore improve GPGPU performance. Comparison of accelerators used in DGX: List of eponyms of Nvidia GPU microarchitectures List of
Volta_(microarchitecture)
conditions for Sandia Z accelerator". Sandia.gov. Retrieved 2014-08-24. "High-Output Sandia Accelerator Able to Predict Nuclear Blast Physics". Sandia.gov. December
History_of_nuclear_fusion
Topics referred to by the same term
Harvard University and MIT, Cambridge, MA, 1962–1974 (List of accelerators in particle physics) Cea Sunrise Person (born 1969), Canadian writer and former
Cea
Type of computer benchmarking tool
in which vendors are no longer allowed to optimize the compilation of the code without reporting it. This suite is currently retired. The benchmark programs
SPECfp
Quantum computing company
€12.5 million in funding from the European_Innovation_Council (EIC) Accelerator program. This was followed by a €25 million funding round in 2024, valuing
Multiverse_Computing
Chinese nuclear physicist (1907–1998)
fathers of Chinese nuclear physics, cosmic rays and particle physics. Wang was also a leader in the fields of detonation physics experiments, anti-electromagnetic
Wang_Ganchang
American particle physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics
electron accelerator. He developed a close working relationship with Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky at Stanford. Kendall joined the faculty of the MIT Physics Department
Henry_Way_Kendall
Displacement of the solid Earth's surface caused by the gravity of the Moon and Sun
some particle physics experiments. For instance, at the CERN or the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, the very large particle accelerators were designed
Earth_tide
Video game series
be competitive. Development was further complicated when the first 3D accelerators were released, prompting Croteam to develop for hardware rendering over
Serious_Sam
High-speed internal memory for storage
An Efficient and Effective Code Management for Software Managed Multicores" Archived 2014-02-02 at the Wayback Machine, CODES+ISSS, 2013 Patterson, David
Scratchpad_memory
American electrical engineer and plasma physicist
Circuit Solution for 1D Bounded Plasma Particle Simulation Codes". Journal of Computational Physics. 104 (2): 321–328. Bibcode:1993JCoPh.104..321V. doi:10
John_Paul_Verboncoeur
Networks connecting quantum processors
must be introduced such as the Shor code or one of a number of more general and efficient codes. All of these codes work by distributing the quantum information
Quantum_network
Range 300-3000 GHz of the electromagnetic spectrum
PMID 26439410. Jing, Chunguang (2016). "Dielectric Wakefield Accelerators". Reviews of Accelerator Science and Technology. 09 (6): 127–149. Bibcode:2016RvAST
Terahertz_radiation
Analytical techniques involving ion beams
and detection limits. The basic layout of an ion beam apparatus is an accelerator which produces an ion beam that is feed through an evacuated beam-transport
Ion_beam_analysis
Class of data processing algorithms
or wrapping of the API-calls for accelerators (e.g. via CUDA or OpenCL). Implementations include Cactus, a physics problem solving environment, and waLBerla
Iterative_Stencil_Loops
Process constraining a charged particle's path through a crystal
In condensed-matter physics, channelling (or channeling) is the process that constrains the path of a charged particle in a crystalline solid. Many physical
Channelling_(physics)
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Higher level of microcode
complex instruction as if it were a subroutine, making user code smaller. The "i370" code for the "Capitol" chipset used in some ES/9370 models was similar
Millicode
Computer hardware technology that uses quantum mechanics
played a major role in wartime cryptography, and quantum physics was essential for nuclear physics used in the Manhattan Project. As physicists applied quantum
Quantum_computing
Use of a GPU for computations typically assigned to CPUs
information. AI accelerator Audio processing unit Close to Metal Deep learning processor (DLP) Fastra II Larrabee (microarchitecture) Physics engine Advanced
General-purpose computing on graphics processing units
General-purpose_computing_on_graphics_processing_units
Open standard for parallelizing
OpenMP and MPI codes Allinea Distributed Debugging Tool (DDT) – debugger for OpenMP and MPI codes Allinea MAP – profiler for OpenMP and MPI codes TotalView
OpenMP
American plasma physicist
for Theoretical Physics Medal for Excellence in Nonlinear Plasma Physics by a Young Researcher. He also won the 2016 Advanced Accelerator Concepts Prize
Warren_B._Mori
American game programmer
and GPU simulation at Nvidia. She has also designed accelerator experiments for nuclear physics research. In 2023 on World Intellectual Property (IP)
Corrinne_Yu
Bacon–Shor code is a Subsystem error correcting code. In a Subsystem code, information is encoded in a subsystem of a Hilbert space. Subsystem codes lend to
Glossary_of_quantum_computing
American businessperson (born 1958)
American Institute of Physics. May 2021. "Proceedings of Summer Institute on Particle Physics" (PDF). SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Porat, Dan
Ruth_Porat
Radioactive waste repository in Sweden
spectra measurements". Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. 833:
Clab
Magnetic confinement device used to produce thermonuclear fusion power
(100 keV). Accelerator-based fusion is not practical because the reactor cross section is tiny; most of the particles in the accelerator will scatter
Tokamak
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ACCELERATOR PHYSICS-CODES
Female
English
English variant spelling of Greek Phyllis, PHYLISS means "foliage."
Girl/Female
Biblical
Pure gold, gold of Phasis or Pison.
Girl/Female
Biblical
Relaxation, physic, comfort.
Surname or Lastname
English (mainly Norfolk)
English (mainly Norfolk) : from Middle English staf ‘rod’, ‘staff’; a nickname for a tall, thin person, or a metonymic occupational name for anyone who carried a staff of office, a reminder of his right to inflict physical discipline.
Biblical
the physic or medicine of God
Girl/Female
American, Australian, Chinese, French, Greek
Foliage; Green Branch; Leaf; Greenery
Girl/Female
Greek American
Green bough.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname from Middle English sparewe ‘sparrow’, perhaps for a small, chirpy person, or else for someone bearing some fancied physical resemblance to a sparrow.
Boy/Male
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Jain, Telugu
Natural; Physical; Radiant; Pearl; Another Name for Shiva
Biblical
Raphu, relaxation; physic; comfort
Male
Greek
(ἈÏιστείδης) Greek name composed of the elements aristos "best, excellent" and eidos "physique," hence "best physique." [Note: the word eidos is usually said to mean "kind; sort," but it has many other ARISTEIDES meanss as well. Most important is its literal meaning, "something that is seen," usually referring to the human body. For example, in medicine the term refers to the physical health of the body, especially the outward appearance which "can be seen."]Â
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Telugu
Physical Bonding
Girl/Female
Biblical
Relaxation, physic, comfort.
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Malayalam
Outer; Body; Physical; Ambition; Power; Progress; Career; Success
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname for a strong, aggressive, bull-like man, from Middle English bul(l)e, bol(l)e. Occasionally, the name may denote a keeper of a bull. Compare Bulman.German (mainly northern) : from a byname for a cattle breeder, keeper, or dealer. Compare South German Ochs.South German : nickname for a short fat man, a variant of Bolle, or a nickname for a man with the physical characteristics of a bull.
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim
A Blessed Girl; A Pious Girl; Celestial; Girl who is Free from Physical or Moral Defects
Biblical
pure gold; gold of Phasis or Pison
Boy/Male
Biblical
The physic or medicine of God.
Boy/Male
Tamil
Physical bonding
Girl/Female
American, Australian, Christian, Greek
Foliage; Green Branch; Form of Phyllis; A Leaf; Greenery
ACCELERATOR PHYSICS-CODES
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Girl/Female
Muslim/Islamic
Past
Girl/Female
Tamil
Divya Shree | திவà¯à®¯ à®·à¯à®°à¯€, திவà¯à®¯ à®·à¯à®°à¯€Â
Divine, Pure light, Source of wisdom
Boy/Male
American, Australian, British, English
Town Near the Field; From the Field Estate
Girl/Female
Australian, Hebrew
Fortunate
Female
Russian
(БориÑлава) Feminine form of Slavic Borislav, BORISLAVA means "battle glory." In use by the Bulgarians and Russians.
Boy/Male
Assamese, Indian
Human
Boy/Male
Muslim/Islamic
Leather
Boy/Male
Tamil
Chidhatma | சிதாதà¯à®®à®¾
Supreme spirit, Big soul
Boy/Male
Australian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Polish, Swedish, Swiss, Teutonic
German Form of William; Will-helmet; Will Desire; Helmet Protection
Girl/Female
Afghan, African, Arabic, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Muslim, Swahili
Resembling Full Moon; Moor-like; Cloud
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imp. & p. p.
of Accelerate
a.
Perceptible through a bodily or material organization; cognizable by the senses; external; as, the physical, opposed to chemical, characters of a mineral.
a.
Of or pertaining to physic, or the art of medicine; medicinal; curative; healing; also, cathartic; purgative.
n.
Theology or divinity illustrated or enforced by physics or natural philosophy.
n.
One who, or that which, accelerates. Also as an adj.; as, accelerator nerves.
a.
Above or beyond physics; not explainable by physical laws.
v. t.
To hasten, as the occurence of an event; as, to accelerate our departure.
n.
The tendency of the mind toward, or its preoccupation with, physical phenomena; materialism in philosophy and religion.
adv.
In a physical manner; according to the laws of nature or physics; by physical force; not morally.
a.
Of or pertaining to physics, or natural philosophy; treating of, or relating to, the causes and connections of natural phenomena; as, physical science; physical laws.
v. t.
To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of; as, to accelerate the growth of a plant, the increase of wealth, etc.
n.
Physics.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Accelerate
imp. & p. p.
of Physic
n.
One versed in physics.
n.
The act of accelerating, or the state of being accelerated; increase of motion or action; as, a falling body moves toward the earth with an acceleration of velocity; -- opposed to retardation.
n.
The science of nature, or of natural objects; that branch of science which treats of the laws and properties of matter, and the forces acting upon it; especially, that department of natural science which treats of the causes (as gravitation, heat, light, magnetism, electricity, etc.) that modify the general properties of bodies; natural philosophy.
v. t.
To treat with physic or medicine; to administer medicine to, esp. a cathartic; to operate on as a cathartic; to purge.
n.
A believer in the theory that the fundamental phenomena of life are to be explained upon purely chemical and physical principles; -- opposed to vitalist.