cryogenicistn.
/ˌkrʌɪə(ʊ)ˈdʒɛnᵻsɪst/, U.S. /ˌkraɪoʊˈdʒɛnəsəst/ A specialist in or practitioner of cryogenics.
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1954 Acta Crystallographica 7 520/2 This advice is as applicable to over-enthusiastic ‘crystallographers’ as it would be to spectroscopists, microscopists, calorimetrists, cryogenicists, nuclear technologists, and so on.
1991 Futurist May–June 58/3 Police in California arrested cryogenicists who they suspected had not waited for a woman to die before removing and freezing her head.
2003 C. Glashausser tr. J. Matricon & G. Waysand Cold Wars 236 The refugee cryogenicists had much more influence on the Clarendon Laboratory at Oxford.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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