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fizzler ‎(plural fizzlers)

(slang) physicist
- 2004, Jacqueline Davies, Where the Ground Meets the Sky (page 132)
  Uncle Nick was this old fizzler on the Hill. The grownups called him Nicholas Baker and the kids all called him Uncle Nick, but the army couldn't fool me. I knew he was Niels Bohr, the world's greatest atomic scientist, all the way from Denmark.