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LIFE SCIENTIST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(biology) a scientist who studies living organisms
Synonyms:
biologist; life scientist
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("life scientist" is a kind of...):
scientist (a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences)
Domain category:
biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "life scientist"):
animal scientist; zoologist (a specialist in the branch of biology dealing with animals)
vivisectionist (a biologist who cuts open live animals for research)
systematist; taxonomer; taxonomist (a biologist who specializes in the classification of organisms into groups on the basis of their structure and origin and behavior)
sociobiologist (a biologist who studies the biological determinants of social behavior)
radiobiologist (a biologist who studies the effects of radiation on living organisms)
physiologist (a biologist specializing in physiology)
neurobiologist (a specialist in neurobiology)
natural scientist; naturalist (a biologist knowledgeable about natural history (especially botany and zoology))
molecular biologist (a biologist who studies the structure and activity of macromolecules essential to life)
microbiologist (a specialist in microbiology)
geneticist (a biologist who specializes in genetics)
ecologist (a biologist who studies the relation between organisms and their environment)
cytologist (a biologist who studies the structure and function of cells)
botanist; phytologist; plant scientist (a biologist specializing in the study of plants)
bacteriologist (a biologist who studies bacteria)
Instance hyponyms:
Louis Pasteur; Pasteur (French chemist and biologist whose discovery that fermentation is caused by microorganisms resulted in the process of pasteurization (1822-1895))
Morgan; Thomas Hunt Morgan (United States biologist who formulated the chromosome theory of heredity (1866-1945))
Kendrew; Sir John Cowdery Kendrew (English biologist noted for studies of the molecular structure of blood components (born in 1917))
Huxley; Thomas Henry Huxley; Thomas Huxley (English biologist and a leading exponent of Darwin's theory of evolution (1825-1895))
Ernst Heinrich Haeckel; Haeckel (German biologist and philosopher; advocated Darwinism and formulated the theory of recapitulation; was an exponent of materialistic monism (1834-1919))
Delbruck; Max Delbruck (United States biologist (born in Germany) who studied how viruses infect living cells (1906-1981))
Carson; Rachel Carson; Rachel Louise Carson (United States biologist remembered for her opposition to the use of pesticides that were hazardous to wildlife (1907-1964))
Alexis Carrel; Carrel (French surgeon and biologist who developed a way to suture and graft blood vessels (1873-1944))
Beadle; George Beadle; George Wells Beadle (United States biologist who discovered how hereditary characteristics are transmitted by genes (1903-1989))
Derivation:
life science (any of the branches of natural science dealing with the structure and behavior of living organisms)
