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molecular biologist

DEFINITIONS OF: molecular biologist

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n a biologist who studies the structure and activity of macromolecules essential to life

Examples:
Leo Szilard
United States physicist and molecular biologist who helped develop the first atom bomb and later opposed the use of all nuclear weapons (1898-1964)
Tonegawa Susumu
Japanese molecular biologist noted for his studies of how the immune system produces antibodies (born in 1939)
Type of:
biologist, life scientist
(biology) a scientist who studies living organisms
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