scientist
Noun
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A person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences (synset 110580065)
subtypes:
- 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
- pi, principal investigator - 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
specific instances:- 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)
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