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scientist|ˈsaɪəntɪst|
[f. scient- (in L. scientia science, and in scientific) + -ist.]
1. A person with expert knowledge of a science; a person using scientific methods.
1834Q. Rev. LI. 59 Science..loses all traces of unity. A curious illustration of this result may be observed in the want of any name by which we can designate the students of the knowledge of the material world collectively. We are informed that this difficulty was felt very oppressively by the members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, at their meetings..in the last three summers... Philosophers was felt to be too wide and too lofty a term,..; savans was rather assuming,..; some ingenious gentleman proposed that, by analogy with artist, they might form scientist, and added that there could be no scruple in making free with this termination when we have such words as sciolist, economist, and atheist—but this was not generally palatable. 1840Whewell Philos. Induct. Sci. I. Introd. 113 We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I should incline to call him a Scientist. 1840Blackw. Mag. XLVIII. 273 Leonardo was mentally a seeker after truth—a scientist; Coreggio was an assertor of truth—an artist. 1853F. Hall in Leslie's Misc. II. 169 Atrabilious scientists. 1878T. Sinclair Mount 13 They know that the sun is better where it is than under the scalpel or other instruments of the intense scientists.
2. (Usu. with capital initial.) A Christian Scientist.
1875M. B. Eddy Science & Health viii. 428 The Scientist sees more clearly the cause of disease in mind, than the anatomist can in body; the latter examines the body to learn how matter is committing suicide, and the former reads the mind to find what beliefs are destroying the body. 1902‘Mark Twain’ in N. Amer. Rev. CLXXV. 763 Where can you purchase it, at any outlay of any sort, in any Church or out of it, except the Scientist's? 1903― in Ibid. CLXXVI. 509 The Scientist hastened to Concord and told Mrs. Eddy what a disastrous mistake had been made. 1938M. Muggeridge In Valley of this Restless Mind ii. 8 ‘There's a Congregational Chapel..and a Church of England third on the right.’.. ‘Do many people go to them?’ ‘Not many, I think... We're Scientists.’ 1980Country Life 17 July 243/1 There is the dowager, American..a Scientist (of the Christian kind).
3. Appositively in Comb., as scientist-administrator, scientist-astronaut, scientist-dietician, scientist-philosopher.
1964M. Gowing Britain & Atomic Energy 1939–1945 iii. 106 The two most influential American scientist-administrators..were positively anxious to have a joint Anglo-American project.
1965M. Stone Man in Space (rev. ed.) 15 A second large group of astronauts..are a different breed. These newcomers are scientists... Some of these scientist-astronauts will go along on trips to the moon with the pilot-astronauts. 1971New Scientist 18 Mar. 596/1 Dr Philip Chapman, the scientist-astronaut who served as mission scientist for Apollo 14.
1961Ann. Reg. 1960 14 A ‘scientist-dietician’ and fanatical vegetarian, she believed that if we could discover the right diet we should live for ever.
1943Blunden Return to Husbandry 32 Whitehead, A.N... The most eloquent of modern scientist-philosophers. 1977Dædalus Fall p. v, The contributors were humanists, natural scientists, and social scientists who had met to present their papers in homage to the work of two distinguished colleagues, the scientist-philosophers P. W. Bridgman and Philipp Frank. |