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: a person learned in science and especially natural science : a scientific investigator
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Essentially, baseball has become a game full of data scientists.
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Made up of many of the smartest scientists in the country, Bell Labs is known for creating the transistor, the building block of modern electronics.
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Moser and his team of scientists performed this technique in adult Mongolian gerbils instead of mice or rats, which were used in previous studies.
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As of 2017, the company employed more than 3,500 full- and part-time stylists and dozens of data scientists, and had five warehouses across the United States.
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Earlier this year an international team of scientists gathered environmental DNA from Loch Ness for analysis.
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Unpacking the mystery involved some cunning detective work from a coalition of scientists at Boston University and the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases.
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While no one has surpassed Jeanne’s age to date, a team of scientists studied long-living Italians and concluded that humans have not reached our longest possible lifespan yet.
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By the spring of 1720, Newton was one of the most famous scientists in the world—and a very wealthy man.
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Origin and Etymology of scientist
Latin scientia
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First Known Use: 1834
in the meaning defined at sense 1
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SCIENTIST Defined for English Language Learners
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: a person who is trained in a science and whose job involves doing scientific research or solving scientific problems
SCIENTIST Defined for Kids
: a person who studies, specializes in, or investigates a field of science and does scientific work
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: a person learned in science and especially natural science : a scientific investigator
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