proto-chemistn.
/ˌprəʊtəʊˈkɛmɪst/, U.S. /ˌproʊdoʊˈkɛməst/ An early chemist; a person engaged in protochemistry.With quot. 1650 cf. proto-chemistry n. 1.
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proto-chemist1650
zymologist1828
physico-chemist1866
molecularist1869
food chemist1885
thermochemist1890
photochemist1894
physical chemist1896
zymotechnologist1896
radiochemist1917
immunochemist1930
stereochemist1937
polymer chemist1948
radiation chemist1951
kineticist1960
stereologist1963
1650 W. Charleton tr. J. B. van Helmont Ternary of Paradoxes (new ed.) 6 For since Dame Nature (the Proto-Chymist) her self doth every day sublime, calcine, ferment, dissolve, coagulate, fix, &c.
1907 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 34 Anastasius..sent the proto-chemist, Johannes Isthmius, to end his fraudulent career in the Fortress of Petra.
1974 J. Needham Sci. & Civilisation in China V. ii. xxxiii. 25 The memory of Democritus of Abdera seems by this time to have accreted a shell of magian and experimentalist tradition, so that it must have been this..which the Hellenistic proto-chemists took as their ensign.
2001 P. Ball Bright Earth iii. 68 The efforts of the ancient proto-chemists to create new colours established some pivotal ideas in the development of chemical theory.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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