English > scientist: 1 sense > noun 1, person | Meaning | A person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences. |
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| Instances | Bacon, Roger Bacon | English scientist and Franciscan monk who stressed the importance of experimentation |
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| Franklin, Benjamin Franklin | printer whose success as an author led him to take up politics |
| Galton, Francis Galton, Sir Francis Galton | English scientist (cousin of Charles Darwin) who explored many fields including heredity, meteorology, statistics, psychology, and anthropology |
| Harvey, William Harvey | English physician and scientist who described the circulation of the blood |
| Hooke, Robert Hooke | English scientist who formulated the law of elasticity and proposed a wave theory of light and formulated a theory of planetary motion and proposed the inverse square law of gravitational attraction and discovered the cellular structure of cork and introduced the term 'cell' into biology and invented a balance spring for watches (1635-1703) |
| Narrower | bibliotist | someone who engages in bibliotics |
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| biologist, life scientist | (biology) a scientist who studies living organisms |
| chemist | A scientist who specializes in chemistry |
| cognitive scientist | A scientist who studies cognitive processes |
| computer scientist | A scientist who specializes in the theory of computation and the design of computers |
| cosmographer, cosmographist | A scientist knowledgeable about cosmography |
| geologist | A specialist in geology |
| linguist, linguistic scientist | A specialist in linguistics |
| mathematician | A person skilled in mathematics |
| medical scientist | A scientist who studies disease processes |
| microscopist | A scientist who specializes in research with the use of microscopes |
| mineralogist | A scientist trained in mineralogy |
| oceanographer | A scientist who studies physical and biological aspects of the seas |
| paleontologist, palaeontologist, fossilist | A specialist in paleontology |
| physicist | A scientist trained in physics |
| principal investigator, PI | The scientist in charge of an experiment / experiment or research project |
| psychologist | A scientist trained in psychology |
| radiologic technologist | A scientist trained in radiological technology |
| research worker, researcher, investigator | A scientist who devotes himself to doing research |
| social scientist | someone expert in the study of human society and its personal relationships |
| Broader | person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul | A human being |
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| Spanish | científica, científico |
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| Catalan | científic |
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| Nouns | science | a particular branch of scientific knowledge |
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