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Originally Posted by janoskiss
... Angela Merkel was a physical chemist (aka chemical physicist) with a PhD.
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My sister has a PhD in Chemical Physics; she gets HIGHLY offended when someone "accuses" her of being a Physical Chemist!
(Although I still have trouble working out where the boundaries are - and I can't even understand the half-page abstract from her PhD Thesis.)
Chemical physics is a subdiscipline of chemistry and physics that investigates physicochemical phenomena using techniques from atomic and molecular physics and condensed matter physics; it is the branch of physics that studies chemical processes from the point of view of physics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_physics
Physical chemistry is the study of macroscopic, atomic, subatomic, and particulate phenomena in chemical systems in terms of laws and concepts of physics.
Physical chemistry, in contrast to chemical physics, is predominantly (but not always) a macroscopic or supra-molecular science, as the majority of the principles on which physical chemistry was founded are concepts related to the bulk rather than on molecular/atomic structure alone (for example, chemical equilibrium and colloids).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_chemistry