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A scientist is a person with some kind of knowledge or expertise in any of the sciences, like biology or chemistry. See that guy in the white lab coat wearing pocket protectors and experimenting with chemicals? He’s definitely a scientist.

The word science comes from the Latin, scientia, which means "knowledge." The sciences are branches of knowledge about the world that derive from repeated experiments. A scientist is any person with an interest in the sciences, from amateurs to professionals. A curious high school student interested in seeing what happens when he slips vinegar into his best friend's can of soda could be considered a kind of scientist!

DEFINITIONS OF: scientist

n a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences

Types:: show 81 types...; hide 81 types...; 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; behaviorist, behaviourist
a psychologist who subscribes to behaviorism; experimenter
a research worker who conducts experiments; acoustician
a physicist who specializes in acoustics; algebraist
a mathematician whose specialty is algebra; anthropologist
a social scientist who specializes in anthropology; arithmetician
someone who specializes in arithmetic; astronomer, stargazer, uranologist
a physicist who studies astronomy; bacteriologist
a biologist who studies bacteria; biochemist
someone with special training in biochemistry; biophysicist
a physicist who applies the methods of physics to biology; boffin
(British slang) a scientist or technician engaged in military research; botanist, phytologist, plant scientist
a biologist specializing in the study of plants; cognitive neuroscientist
a cognitive scientist who studies the neurophysiological foundations of mental phenomena; computational linguist
someone trained in computer science and linguistics who uses computers for natural language processing; cytologist
a biologist who studies the structure and function of cells; ecologist
a biologist who studies the relation between organisms and their environment; economic expert, economist
an expert in the science of economics; epidemiologist
a medical scientist who studies the transmission and control of epidemic diseases; fieldworker
a researcher who works in the field; geneticist
a biologist who specializes in genetics; geometer, geometrician
a mathematician specializing in geometry; geophysicist
a geologist who uses physical principles to study the properties of the earth; grammarian, syntactician
a linguist who specializes in the study of grammar and syntax; Hebraist
linguist specializing in the Hebrew language; hydrologist
a geologist skilled in hydrology; hypnotiser, hypnotist, hypnotizer, mesmerist, mesmerizer
a person who induces hypnosis; immunologist
a medical scientist who specializes in immunology; lexicographer, lexicologist
a compiler or writer of a dictionary; a student of the lexical component of language; microbiologist
a specialist in microbiology; molecular biologist
a biologist who studies the structure and activity of macromolecules essential to life; natural scientist, naturalist
a biologist knowledgeable about natural history (especially botany and zoology); neurobiologist
a specialist in neurobiology; neurolinguist
someone trained in neuroscience and linguistics who studies brain processes during language production and reception; nuclear chemist, radiochemist
a chemist who specializes in nuclear chemistry; nuclear physicist
a physicist who specializes in nuclear physics; number theorist
a mathematician specializing in number theory; parapsychologist
someone who studies the evidence for such psychological phenomena as psychokinesis and telepathy and clairvoyance; penologist
a person who studies the theory and practice of prison management; oil geologist, petroleum geologist
a specialist in petroleum geology; phonetician
a specialist in phonetics; phonologist
a specialist in phonology; physiologist
a biologist specializing in physiology; phytochemist
a chemist who specializes in the chemistry of plants; political scientist
a social scientist specializing in the study of government; post doc, postdoc
a scholar or researcher who is involved in academic study beyond the level of a doctoral degree; probability theorist
a mathematician who specializes in probability theory; psycholinguist
a person (usually a psychologist but sometimes a linguist) who studies the psychological basis of human language; psychophysicist
a psychologist trained in psychophysics; radiobiologist
a biologist who studies the effects of radiation on living organisms; semanticist, semiotician
a specialist in the study of meaning; serologist
a medical scientist who specializes in serology; sociobiologist
a biologist who studies the biological determinants of social behavior; sociolinguist
a linguist who studies the social and cultural factors that influence linguistic communication; sociologist
a social scientist who studies the institutions and development of human society; mathematical statistician, statistician
a mathematician who specializes in statistics; systematist, taxonomer, taxonomist
a biologist who specializes in the classification of organisms into groups on the basis of their structure and origin and behavior; toxicologist
one who studies the nature and effects of poisons and their treatment; trigonometrician
a mathematician specializing in trigonometry; vivisectionist
a biologist who cuts open live animals for research; animal scientist, zoologist
a specialist in the branch of biology dealing with animals; Charles Hard Townes, Charles Townes, Townes
United States physicist who developed the laser and maser principles for producing high-intensity radiation (1915-)

Type of:: individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul
a human being

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