The phrase "academic physics" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the study or field of physics as it pertains to academic institutions or scholarly pursuits.
Example: "The university offers a comprehensive program in academic physics, focusing on both theoretical and experimental aspects."
Alternatives: "scholarly physics" or "educational physics".
Lisi didn't think that he would ever return to academic physics.
He may have an impressive CV, but Weinstein is in no way part of the academic physics community.
A recent extensive, nation-wide evaluation of all academic physics groups in the Netherlands allowed us to investigate this problem empirically.
He was convinced that academic physics had a bias against pursuing foundational questions at a young age, both because of the need to publish in order to get tenure and because such questions were seen as pretentious.
Both are worried that academic physics has become dangerously like what the social constructivists have long charged it with being: a community that is no more rational or objective than any other group of humans.
So that was interesting because now I'm a professor of physics, and I'm one of the few people in my class that have actually gone into academic physics.
Last night's debate did little to settle the argument, but a packed house of academics, physics geeks, and just-curious laypeople seemed to enjoy themselves nonetheless.
* During the 1999-2000 academic year, physics departments recruited for over 500 tenure and tenure-track openings.
The academic journal Physics of Wave Phenomena presents reviews, research papers, letters, and brief communications elucidating recent theoretical and experimental achievements in modern physics of oscillations and waves.
Both academics studied physics as undergraduates in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s.
Academic background: A.B., physics, Princeton University (2004); Ph.D., physics, Harvard University (2010).
