scientist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪəntɪst/
ipa: /ˈsaɪəntəst/
Forms: form: scientists
Etymology: Coined by English philosopher and historian of science William Whewell in March 1834 in an anonymous review of Mary Somerville's book On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences in the Quarterly Review as a suggested replacement for, and later seriously introduced by him in 1840 (see the quotation) as a more precise substitute for, the terms natural philosopher and man of science. Modeled after artist, from the Latin stem scientia (“knowledge”) + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: As we cannot use physician for a cultivator of physics, I have called him a physicist. We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I should incline to call him a Scientist. Thus we might say, that as an Artist is a Musician, Painter, or Poet, a Scientist is a Mathematician, Physicist, or Naturalist.
ref: 1840, William Whewell, “Aphorisms Concerning the Language of Science. Aphorism XVI. In the Composition and Inflexion of Technical Terms, Philological Analogies are to be Preserved if Possible, but Modified According to Scientific Convenience.”, in The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Founded upon Their History. […], volume I, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […]; Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: J. and J. J. Deighton, →OCLC, paragraph 4(3), page cxiii:
text: Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.
ref: 2012 January, Stephen Ledoux, “Behaviorism at 100”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, United States: Sigma Xi, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 60:
text: The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation.
ref: 2013 June 21, Karen McVeigh, “US Rules Human Genes Can’t Be Patented”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, →ISSN, page 10:
glosses: One whose activities make use of the scientific method to answer questions regarding the measurable universe. A scientist may be involved in original research, or make use of the results of the research of others.
wikipedia: Mary Somerville
On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences
Quarterly Review
Synonyms: word: scientist
word: beaker
Hypernyms: word: person
Hyponyms: word: biotechnologist
word: citizen scientist
word: computer scientist
word: data scientist
word: food scientist
word: geoscientist
word: natural scientist
word: pseudoscientist
word: rocket scientist
word: social scientist
word: physicist
word: chemist
word: biologist
word: earth scientist
word: psychologist
word: sociologist
word: anthropologist
word: science
word: education
word: scholar
word: researcher
word: theoretician
word: theorist
word: experimentalist
word: academic degree
Derived terms: bench scientist
bioscientist
broscientist
chief scientist
citizen scientist
creation scientist
crime scientist
criminal scientist
cyberscientist
data scientist
environmental scientist
e-scientist
ethnoscientist
food scientist
gentleman scientist
geroscientist
glycoscientist
histoscientist
hydroscientist
mad scientist
metascientist
nanoscientist
neuroscientist
nonscientist
omniscientist
parascientist
political scientist
remote sensing scientist
rocket scientist
scientess
social scientist
soil scientist
Related terms: word: science
word: sciencier
word: scienciest
word: scienciness
word: sciency
word: scientian
word: scientific
word: scientifical
word: scientifically
word: scientificalness
word: scientificness
word: scientism
word: scientistic
word: scientistical
word: scientistically
word: peer review
word: :Category:en:Scientists
word: Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class IV § 463. Experiment
word: Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class IV § 476. Reasoning
word: Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class IV § 492. Scholar