So? How does that lead to a contradiction?

If the laws of physics are determinist, and we are subject to said laws, then we are determinist. There’s an unreconcilable contradiction in compatibilist argument that you either are not addressing or do not seem to understand.

But many philosophers think determinism is compatible with free will. This is the position known as "compatibilism." It is named compatibilism because it thinks the two things (determinism and free will) are compatible. As for what scientists think, they typically don't even understand the topic, let alone have helpful things to say about it, so I am not sure we ought to pay much attention to them.

This isn’t convincing. Scientists have legitimate facts, observations, and evidence to back up the claim that the universe is determinist, what evidence do these compatibilist philsophers have? What arguments? I’ve not read a single convincing one? If you have any of the aforementioned arguments, I’d genuinely be interested in hearing how you reconcile the fact that the universe is deterministic with free will, which would logically result in our being somehow not subject to these laws.