Category:Scientist

Sci"en*tist, n.

Defn: one learned in science; a scientific investigator; one devoted To scientific study; a savant. [recent]

Note: twenty years ago i ventured to propose one [a name for the Class of men who give their lives to scientific study] which has been Slowly finding its way to general adoption; and the word scientist, Though scarcely euphonious, has gradually assumed its place in our Vocabulary. B. A. Gould (address, 1869).