micrographern.
/mʌɪˈkrɒɡrəfə/, U.S. /ˌmaɪˈkrɑɡrəfər/ Now historical.
A person who describes microscopic objects or produces micrographs; a microscopist.
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micrographer1668
micrologist1855
biophysicist1860
microbiologist1885
phenologist1888
biometrician1901
biometricist1902
bug chaser1911
psychobiologist1914
biotechnologist1920
sociobiologist1920
bioengineer1931
biotechnician1940
developmental biologist1940
neurobiologist1942
radiobiologist1946
virologist1946
photobiologist1958
prebiologist1963
mycoplasmologist1966
chronobiologist1976
genomicist1995
1668 J. Glanvill Plus Ultra x. 74 The History of Animals hath been much inlarged by Gesner, Rondeletius, Aldrovandus, and more accurately inquir'd into by the Micrographers.
1705 Acct. Origin & Formation Fossil-shells 54 The second [Proposition] is demonstrated by Euclid, and generally asserted by all Micrographers and Geometricians.
1839–47 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. III. 527/2 The accounts given of it by some of the earlier micrographers.
1849 R. Owen Parthenogenesis 32 The masterly Micrographer [sc. Ehrenberg].
1869 Sci. Amer. 19 June 394/3 The aniline blues and violets are at present of great benefit to the micrographer and anatomist for the dyeing of tissues.
1993 Independent on Sunday 14 Nov. (Review Suppl.) 21/3 Meanwhile, in England, the pioneering micrographer Robert Hooke had realised that moulds and mildews were ‘nothing else but several kinds of small and variously figured Mushrooms’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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