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scientist Definition

sci·en·tist (sī′ən tist)

noun

  1. a specialist in science; esp., a person whose profession is investigating in one of the natural sciences, as biology, chemistry, physics, etc.
  2. ☆ Christian Scientist

scientist Synonyms

scientist

n.

expert, specialist, investigator, laboratory technologist, laboratory technician, savant, natural philosopher, student of natural history, student of natural phenomena, explorer, research worker, research assistant, learned person, serious student, seeker after knowledge, Doctor of Science, Ph.D., scientific thinker, pure scientist, applied scientist, a Pasteur, an Einstein, a regular Einstein*. see also dentist, doctor, professor.

Scientists include: anatomist, astrologist, cosmologist, astronomer, botanist, zoologist, biologist, chemist, biochemist, geneticist, embryologist, meteorologist, geologist, geographer, mathematician, physicist, psychiatrist, psychologist, astrophysicist, spectroscopist, spectral analyst, ecologist, biophysicist, bacteriologist, marine biologist, oceanographer, geopolitician, systematic botanist, industrial chemist, manufacturing chemist, chemurgist, pharmacist, chemical engineer, nuclear engineer, nuclear physicist, sanitary engineer, agronomist, entomologist, ornithologist, endocrinologist, radiologist, audiologist, histologist, immunologist, oncologist, toxicologist, pathologist, graphologist, geophysicist, cartographer, neurologist, neurophysicist, paleontologist, paleobotanist, seismologist, volcanologist, structural geologist, oil geologist, mineralogist, metallurgist, anthropologist, ethnologist, comparative anatomist, Egyptologist, archaeologist, ethnobiologist, sociologist, linguist, dialectologist, folklorist;

scientist Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • enable: This enabled scientists to study seasonal effects which dominate events in the North Sea.
  • practice: NSF administrators are drawn from the ranks of practicing scientists and return to those ranks from time-to-time for refreshing sabbaticals.
  • involve: But she has still to find any of the scientists involved who would speak to her.
  • engage: It is suitable for the scientists engaged in cross-disciplinary work and chemists studying multidisciplinary problems.
  • lead: These similarities lead many scientists to conclude that birds are living theropod dinosaurs.

Adjective modifier

  • forensic: I have known cases where officers have asked forensic scientists to destroy evidence.
  • eminent: The Bauer brothers ' lives were to change following offers from two eminent English scientists.
  • biomedical: A biomedical scientist from Donegal with whom I spoke in Tyrone County Hospital talked in a similar vein.
  • mad: There is also the disgraceful manipulation of our food by mad scientists who are introducing Genetically Altered food into our diet.
  • distinguished: A series of 18th-century busts below the tapestries represent distinguished early scientists and philosophers.
  • postdoctoral: Nowadays there are lots of schemes available for young postdoctoral scientists to gain funding.

Modifies a noun

  • daphne: Right now our strategic flexibility and scientist daphne koller opportunity its scholarship.
  • koller: Right now our strategic flexibility and scientist daphne koller opportunity its scholarship.
  • deweyclass: Author: ENC Subjects: canada, scientists DeweyClass: 509 Greek Mythology Biographical information on figures in Greek mythology.

Noun used with modifier

  • computer: Among the many users of machine learning systems are a new wave of computer scientists calling themselves " data miners " .
  • climate: However, setting up a regional model currently requires a great deal of effort from an experienced climate model scientist.
  • IFR: And the IFR scientists responsible for the Collection are currently plowing through the huge task of DNA fingerprinting all the strains already stored.
  • maverick: He is an excellent writer and maverick scientist too.
  • healthcare: To provide accurate information on workforce and workforce numbers to assist in planning for recruitment of healthcare scientists.
  • earth: Find out what earth scientists are doing to deal with these terrifying natural forces.
scientist Quotes

No one ever complains if a great artist says that he was driven to create a masterpiece by a hunger for recognition and money.But a scientist? Well, he ismeant to be disinterested, pure, his ambition merely to descry the cement of the universe. He isn't meant to use it to start laying his own patio.

—Self,Will

Dissent isthenativeactivityofthescientist, and it hasgot himintoa good deal oftrouble inthelast years.But ifthat is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.

—Bronowski,Jacob

Uberhaupt ist es fu«  r den Forscher ein guter Morgensport, t a« glich vor dem Fru«  hstu«  ck eine Lieblingshypothese einzustampfenödas erh a« lt jung. It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

—Lorenz, Konrad

   I cannot give any scientist of anyage better advice than this: the intensityof a conviction that a hypothesisistrue has no bearing over whether it is true or not.

—Medawar, Sir Peter Brian

Iguess I'mjust anoldmad scientist at bottom.Givemean underground laboratory, half a dozen atomsmashers, and a beautiful girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation's laws.

—Perelman, S(ydney) J(oseph)

   Nothing leadsthescientist soastrayas a prematuretruth.

—Rostand,Jean

The scientist doesnot study nature because it isuseful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful.

—Poincare¤  , (Jules) Henri

Dessa civiliza c° a‹  o so¤   pode sair quem tem como fun c° a‹  o especial a de sair: a um cientista e¤   dada a licen c° a, a um padre e¤   dada a permissa‹  o. Mas na‹  o a uma mulher que nem sequer tem as garantias de um t|¤tulo. Only he whose special function is departure can depart from that civilization: a scientist isgiven license, a priest isgiven permission. But these are not given to a woman who does not even have the guarantee of a title.

—Lispector, Clarice

I believe that the scientist is trying to expand absolute truth and the artist absolute beauty, so that I find in art and science, and in an attempt to live a good life, all the religion I want.

—Haldane,J(ohn) B(urdon) S(anderson)

In a world where it is so easy to neglect, deny, pervert and suppress the truth, the scientist may find his discipline severe. For him, truth is so seldom the sudden lightthat showsneworderand beauty; more often, truth is the uncharted rock that sinks his ship in the dark.

—Cornforth, SirJohnWarcup

Every scientist should remove the word 'impossible' from their lexicon.

—Reeve, Christopher

   A scientist soondiscoversthat hehas becomea member of the cast of 'them' in the context 'what mischief are they up to now?'

—Medawar, Sir Peter Brian

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible he is almost certainly right.When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

—Clarke, SirArthur C(harles)

The social scientist is in a difficult, if not impossible position.On the one hand there is the temptation to see all of societyas one's autobiography writ large, surely not the path to general truth.On the other hand, there is the attempt to be general and objective by pretending that one knows nothing about the experience of being human, forcing the investigator to pretend that people usually know and tell the truth about important issues, when we all know from our own lives how impossible that is.

—Lewontin, Richard Charles

   Aunt Sadie†so much disliked hearing about health that people often took her for a Christian Scientist, which, indeed, she might have become had she not disliked hearing about religion even more.

—Mitford, Nancy Freeman