| scientist | | |
| n. (person) | 1. scientist | a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences. |
| ~ individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul | a human being.; "there was too much for one person to do" |
| ~ cosmographer, cosmographist | a scientist knowledgeable about cosmography. |
| ~ bibliotist | someone who engages in bibliotics. |
| ~ 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. |
| ~ 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. |
| ~ fossilist, palaeontologist, paleontologist | a specialist in paleontology. |
| ~ physicist | a scientist trained in physics. |
| ~ principal investigator, pi | the scientist in charge of an experiment or research project. |
| ~ psychologist | a scientist trained in psychology. |
| ~ radiologic technologist | a scientist trained in radiological technology. |
| ~ investigator, research worker, researcher | a scientist who devotes himself to doing research. |
| ~ social scientist | someone expert in the study of human society and its personal relationships. |
| ~ roger bacon, bacon | English scientist and Franciscan monk who stressed the importance of experimentation; first showed that air is required for combustion and first used lenses to correct vision (1220-1292). |
| ~ benjamin franklin, franklin | printer whose success as an author led him to take up politics; he helped draw up the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution; he played a major role in the American Revolution and negotiated French support for the colonists; as a scientist he is remembered particularly for his research in electricity (1706-1790). |
| ~ francis galton, galton, sir francis galton | English scientist (cousin of Charles Darwin) who explored many fields including heredity, meteorology, statistics, psychology, and anthropology; founder of eugenics and first to use fingerprints for identification (1822-1911). |
| ~ harvey, william harvey | English physician and scientist who described the circulation of the blood; he later proposed that all animals originate from an ovum produced by the female of the species (1578-1657). |
| ~ 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). |
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