scientist
English Thesaurus
1. a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences (noun.person)
| hyponym | : | bibliotist, |
| definition | : | someone who engages in bibliotics (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | chemist, |
| definition | : | a scientist who specializes in chemistry (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | cognitive scientist, |
| definition | : | a scientist who studies cognitive processes (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | computer scientist, |
| definition | : | a scientist who specializes in the theory of computation and the design of computers (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | geologist, |
| definition | : | a specialist in geology (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | mathematician, |
| definition | : | a person skilled in mathematics (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | medical scientist, |
| definition | : | a scientist who studies disease processes (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | microscopist, |
| definition | : | a scientist who specializes in research with the use of microscopes (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | mineralogist, |
| definition | : | a scientist trained in mineralogy (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | oceanographer, |
| definition | : | a scientist who studies physical and biological aspects of the seas (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | physicist, |
| definition | : | a scientist trained in physics (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | pi, principal investigator, |
| definition | : | the scientist in charge of an experiment or research project (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | psychologist, |
| definition | : | a scientist trained in psychology (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | social scientist, |
| definition | : | someone expert in the study of human society and its personal relationships (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | bacon, roger bacon, |
| definition | : | English scientist and Franciscan monk who stressed the importance of experimentation; first showed that air is required for combustion and first used lenses to correct vision (1220-1292) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | benjamin franklin, franklin, |
| definition | : | printer whose success as an author led him to take up politics; he helped draw up the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution; he played a major role in the American Revolution and negotiated French support for the colonists; as a scientist he is remembered particularly for his research in electricity (1706-1790) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | francis galton, galton, sir francis galton, |
| definition | : | English scientist (cousin of Charles Darwin) who explored many fields including heredity, meteorology, statistics, psychology, and anthropology; founder of eugenics and first to use fingerprints for identification (1822-1911) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | harvey, william harvey, |
| definition | : | English physician and scientist who described the circulation of the blood; he later proposed that all animals originate from an ovum produced by the female of the species (1578-1657) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | hooke, robert hooke, |
| definition | : | English scientist who formulated the law of elasticity and proposed a wave theory of light and formulated a theory of planetary motion and proposed the inverse square law of gravitational attraction and discovered the cellular structure of cork and introduced the term `cell' into biology and invented a balance spring for watches (1635-1703) (noun.person) |
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