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Physicist is done working (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

edison

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'physicist' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps they are linked in a way I don't understand?

'is done working' is the wordplay.
'working' indicates an anagram.
'is'+'done'='isdone'
'isdone' with letters rearranged gives 'EDISON'.

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(Other definitions for edison that I've seen before include "US inventor of phonograph, electric light etc." , "Incandescent light inventor" , "No side to this american inventor" , "Inventor's" , "The inventor is strangely onside" .)

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