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scientist en · NOUN

Pronunciation

(Southern-England) audio
/ˈsaɪəntɪst/ (Received-Pronunciation)
/ˈsaɪəntəst/ (General-American)

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.

Meanings

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.
- 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. 2013 June 21, Karen McVeigh, “US Rules Human Genes Can’t Be Patented”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, →ISSN, page 10:
- 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. 2012 January, Stephen Ledoux, “Behaviorism at 100”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, United States: Sigma Xi, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 60:
- 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. 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:

Forms

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Translations (196)

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use of the scientific method) · da videnskabskvinde (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · cy gwyddonydd (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · pl naukowczyni (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · cs vědec (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · gu વૈજ્ઞાનિક (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · fr savant (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · et teadlane (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · scn scinziata (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · tr ilim adamı (obsolecent) (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · scn scinziatu (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · izh tiitomees (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · nn vitskapskvinne (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · es científico (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · ta விஞ்ஞானி (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · my ပညာရှင် (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · ps عالم (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · he מַדְעָן (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · hy գիտնական (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · sw mwanasayansi (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · sgs muokslėninks (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · ur دانِش مَنْد (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · da videnskabsmand (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · ru учёная (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · vi khoa học gia (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · te శాస్త్రవేత్త (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · kk ғалым (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · vo nolavan (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · sv vetenskapskvinna (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · tr bilim adamı (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · mi kaimātai (pūtaiao) (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · ky аалым (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · tt галим (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · pl uczony (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · nan-hbl 科學家 /科学家 (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · tr âlim (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · uk уче́на (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · ky илимпоз (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · yue 科學家 /科学家 (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · bn আলেম (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · ps عليم (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · fi tieteilijä (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · ro femeie de știință (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · kaa ilimpaz (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · io ciencisto (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · gd eòlaiche (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · tg олим (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · mi kaipūtaiao (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · lv zinātniece (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · ro savantă (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · ca científic (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · tl dalub-agham (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · tr bilim insanı (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · id ilmuwan (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · ko 과학자 (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · pdt Wissenschoftla (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · hi आलिम (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · bo ཚན་རིག་མཁས་པ (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · uk вче́ний (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · it scienziato (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · uk науко́виця (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · de Wissenschafterin (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · sq shkencëtare (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · ltg zinineica (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · yi וויסנשאַפֿטלער (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · sv forskare (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · ms ahli sains (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · uk науко́вець (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · dsb wědomnostnica (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · uk вче́на (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · ltg zininīks (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · ro om de știință (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · ro savant (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · sh на̀учница (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · kn ವಿಜ್ಞಾನಿ (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · ja 科学者 (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · ur عالِم (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · el επιστημόνισσα (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · lt mokslininkė (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · ca científica (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · gu વિજ્ઞાની (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · sa वैज्ञानिकी (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · el επιστήμονας (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · be вучо́ная (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · cmn 科學家 /科学家 (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · sh на̀учнӣк (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · fa-ira دانِشْمَنْد (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · it ricercatrice (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · bn বিজ্ঞানী (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · is vísindakona (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · za gohyozgyah (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · hi विज्ञानी (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · sgs muokslėninkė (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · it ricercatore (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · sh znànstvenica (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · xh isazinzulu (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · sh nàučnīk (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · uz olim (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · nv naʼałkaahí (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · sq dijetare (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · fi tiedemies (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · ce ӏилманча (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · kmr zanistmend (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · be навуко́вец (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · tl siyentipiko (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · lo ນັກວິທະຍາສາດ (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · sk vedec (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · tk alym (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · cs vědkyně (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · es científica (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · az alim (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · dsb wědomnostnik (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · sq shkencëtar (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · yi וויסנשאַפֿטלערין (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · eo sciencisto (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · tyv эртемден (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · fi tiedenainen (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · fa-ira عالِم (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · mk научник (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · kmr zanistyar (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · mk научничка (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · kmr zanistvan (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · af wetenskaplike (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · ky окумуштуу (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · ar عَالِم (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · it scienziata (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · as বিজ্ঞানী (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · ps دانشمند (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · hu tudós (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · bg у́чена (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · sl znanstvenik (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · mn ᠡᠷᠳᠡᠮᠲᠡᠨ (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · mn эрдэмтэн (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · tr bilim kadını (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · am ሳይንሰኛ (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · he מדענית (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · pt cientista (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · alt билимчи (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · de Wissenschafter (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · lv zinātnieks (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · mt xjentist (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · fo vísindamaður (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · or ବିଜ୍ଞାନୀ (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · tg донишманд (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · izh oppimees (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · mr शास्त्रज्ञ (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · sa वैज्ञानिक (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · sh znànstvenīk (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · nb vitenskapsmann (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · ur سائِنْسْدان (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · pa ਵਿਗਿਆਨੀ (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · is vísindamaður (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · fr scientifique (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · sk vedkyňa (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · sh зна̀нственица (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · be навуко́ўка (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · ka მეცნიერი (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · de Wissenschaftler (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · sl znanstvenica (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · sh nàučnica (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · sh зна̀нственӣк (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · sq dijetar (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · sv vetenskapsman (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · fo vísindakvinna (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · ru учёный (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · nn forskar (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · vi nhà khoa học (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · mr वैज्ञानिक (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · nb forsker (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · fr savante (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · ba ғалим (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · mi mātanga pūtaiao (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · nl wetenschapper (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · nb vitenskapskvinne (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · de Wissenschaftlerin (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · pl uczona (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · nn vitskapsmann (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · bg у́чен (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · ug ئالىم (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · ar عَالِمَة (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · gl científico (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · uk уче́ний (one whose activities make use of the scientific method) · nl wetenschapster (one whose activities make use of the scientific method)

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scientist en · NOUN

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