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SCIENTIST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("scientist" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "scientist"):
social scientist (someone expert in the study of human society and its personal relationships)
investigator; research worker; researcher (a scientist who devotes himself to doing research)
radiologic technologist (a scientist trained in radiological technology)
psychologist (a scientist trained in psychology)
PI; principal investigator (the scientist in charge of an experiment or research project)
physicist (a scientist trained in physics)
fossilist; palaeontologist; paleontologist (a specialist in paleontology)
oceanographer (a scientist who studies physical and biological aspects of the seas)
mineralogist (a scientist trained in mineralogy)
microscopist (a scientist who specializes in research with the use of microscopes)
medical scientist (a scientist who studies disease processes)
mathematician (a person skilled in mathematics)
linguist; linguistic scientist (a specialist in linguistics)
geologist (a specialist in geology)
computer scientist (a scientist who specializes in the theory of computation and the design of computers)
cognitive scientist (a scientist who studies cognitive processes)
chemist (a scientist who specializes in chemistry)
biologist; life scientist ((biology) a scientist who studies living organisms)
bibliotist (someone who engages in bibliotics)
cosmographer; cosmographist (a scientist knowledgeable about cosmography)
Instance hyponyms:
Bacon; Roger 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))
Derivation:
science (a particular branch of scientific knowledge)
Context examples:
He will let two scientists see his case, if he will not let two friends.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
A physician, scientist, or healthcare provider that investigates the mechanisms underlying the effects of drugs and chemicals on biological or living systems.
(Pharmacologist, NCI Thesaurus)
What the scientists do know is that the sea monster is more than 4 meters long.
(Sea Monster Swam Oceans 170 Million Years Ago, Voanews)
Scientists and doctors at these centers do basic laboratory research and clinical trials on childhood cancers, and they study the patterns, causes, and control of cancer in groups of children.
(Comprehensive pediatric cancer center, NCI Dictionary)
Facilitates communication and dissemination of knowledge among scientists and others dedicated to the cancer problem through presentations and discussions of new and improved observations in the field.
(American Association of Cancer Research, NCI Thesaurus)
ABTA has a special funding program for scientists sponsored by NIH, and sponsors a research study focusing on familial brain tumors.
(American Brain Tumor Association, NCI Thesaurus)
A team of scientists of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) set out to develop a simplified treatment with fewer antibodies by generating mAbs from human survivors of Ebola virus disease.
(Experimental Ebola antibody protects monkeys, NIH)
Scientists have for the first time selectively blocked a conditioned fear memory in humans by using a behavioral technique.
(How Our Memory Works, NIH, US)
A scientist or other professional who is an independent, non-participant in the agent development effort.
(Agent Expert, NCI Thesaurus)
The scientists next measured orexin in the cerebrospinal fluid of 53 people showing suicidal behavior.
(The Mechanism of Panic Attacks, NIH, US)
