biophysicist vs physicist

biophysicist and physicist both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
biophysicist	Yes	No	No	No
physicist	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, physicist is a hypernym of biophysicist; that is, physicist is a word with a broader meaning than biophysicist:

biophysicist (noun)	physicist (noun)
a physicist who applies the methods of physics to biology	a scientist trained in physics