(n.) One learned in science; a scientific investigator; one devoted to scientific study; a savant.
Example Sentences:
(1) In one of Pruitt’s first official acts, for example, he overruled the recommendation of his own agency’s scientists, based on years of meticulous research, to ban a pesticide shown to cause nerve damage, one that poses a clear risk to children, farmworkers and rural drinking water supplies.
(2) Governmental officials as well as medical scientists in Taiwan have worked hard in recent years to develop and to implement various measures, such as prenatal diagnosis and neonatal screening, to lower the incidence of hereditary diseases and mental retardation in the population.
(3) In cooperation with scientists in India and Nigeria, the potential yield of protein-deficient foods.
(4) Scientists at the University of Trento, Italy, have discovered that the way a dog's tail moves is linked to its mood, and by observing each other's tails, dogs can adjust their behaviour accordingly .
(5) The conference was held from December 3 to 5, 1990 in the Washington, DC area and was sponsored by the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, US Food and Drug Administration, Federation International Pharmaceutique, Health Protection Branch (Canada) and Association of Official Analytical Chemists.
(6) Personalised health tests that screen thousands of genes for versions that influence disease are inaccurate and offer little, if any, benefit to consumers, scientists claimed on Monday.
(7) Guy Jobbins, a Cairo-based British water scientist who heads Canada's International Development Research Centre climate change adaptation programme for Africa, says understanding of the issue has rocketed in the past few years.
(8) But most instances are more mundane: the majority of fraud cases in recent years have emerged from scientists either falsifying images – deliberately mislabelling scans and micrographs – or fabricating or altering their recorded data.
(9) "Thousands of scientists and officials from over 100 countries have collaborated to achieve greater certainty as to the scale of the warming," the panel said.
(10) The influential Belgian scientist Quetelet demonstrated a remarkable scotoma towards the phenomenon.
(11) Now is the time to rally behind him and show a solid front to Iran and the world.” Political scientists call this the “rally round the flag effect”, and there are two schools of thought for why it happens, according to the scholars Marc J Hetherington and Michael Nelson.
(12) Gavin Andresen, formerly the chief scientist at the currency’s guiding body, the Bitcoin Foundation, had been the most important backer of the man who would be Satoshi.
(13) In an interview with the Guardian, James Hansen, the world's pre-eminent climate scientist, said any agreement likely to emerge from the negotiations would be so deeply flawed that it would be better to start again from scratch.
(14) A planet with conditions that could support life orbits a twin neighbour of the sun visible to the naked eye, scientists have revealed.
(15) The information compiled in the computers as databases together with its capability to handle complex statistical analysis also enables dermatologists and computer scientists to develop expert systems to assist the dermatologist in the diagnosis and prognostication of diseases and to predict disease trends.
(16) Much more recently, use of modern CT ("computed tomography") scanning equipment on the London Archaeopteryx's skull has enabled scientists to reconstruct the whole of its bony brain case - and so model the structure of the brain itself.
(17) Collaborations of epidemiologists and experimental scientists.
(18) In the end, the emails from citizen scientists nailed the timing: “looks like it started maybe December 2015”; the severity: “I’ve seen dieback before, but not like this”; and the cause: “guessing it may be the consequence of the four-year drought”.
(19) The impetus for the creation of an epidemiology of mental illness came from the work of late nineteenth century social scientists concerned with understanding individual and social behavior and applying their findings to social problems.
(20) It will pump nothing more than water into the air, but it will allow climate scientists and engineers to gauge the engineering feasibility of the plan.
Sociologist
Definition:
(n.) One who treats of, or devotes himself to, the study of sociology.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dr Fiona Stewart, a public health sociologist and Nitschke’s wife, told Guardian Australia she had replaced Nitschke as Exit International’s director.
(2) Others, including sociologist and historian of ideas Pierre-André Taguieff , claim that the media’s “methodical stigmatisation” of Israel and an increasing anti-Israel bias in France in general has encouraged the emergence of a Muslim Judeophobia.
(3) • Daniel Bell, sociologist, born 10 May 1919; died 25 January 2011
(4) Prof Finch, a sociologist at the University of Manchester, was asked by the government to consult academics and publishers on how the UK could make the scientific research funded by taxpayers available free of charge while maintaining high standards of peer review and without undermining the UK's successful publishing industry.
(5) First, the disintegration of class voting patterns noticed by sociologists from the late 1950s onwards.
(6) The facilitators for the course, a psychologist and sociologist, had teaching experience in running similar courses for GP trainers.
(7) Professor Dipankar Gupta, a sociologist at Shiv Nadar University, Noida, said the response to the attack was partly due to the background of the victim as well as the brutality.
(8) Morrow, a sociologist, aruges that Jones is morally and legally obligated to intervene to protect patients and the integrity of the medical profession.
(9) In summary, an effort to increase the specificity and replicability of assessments of disability has been made by a subcommittee on permanent psychiatric disability, consisting of four forensic psychiatrists, three clinical and forensic psychologists, a medical sociologist, a workers' compensation judge and a vocational rehabilitation expert.
(10) Browning used his experience as a former NPR science correspondent to explore this topic under a close lens: from meeting with Shanghai’s “sexy sociologist”, Yuxin Pei, as she spreads the good word of female masturbation to talking with Norwegian preschool teachers about their classroom gender experiments, Browning provides scientific substance to discussions about how people shift from traditional definitions of gender, or are gender fluid, today.
(11) It is crucial for the movement to last and gain increasing visibility and support, not just among the wider public, but among the mainstream political parties.” Another researcher, Cristina Flesher Fominaya, a sociologist at the University of Aberdeen, and author of Social Movements and Globalisation: How Protests, Occupations and Uprisings are Changing the World , said what happens after a march is often more important than the march itself.
(12) Research methodologies utilized by sociologists are briefly presented, and research issues of concern in the sociology of medicine are outlined.
(13) We find that the most significant factor affecting both degree and nature of interest in the history of sociology is the speciality of the sociologist himself.
(14) The man credited with creating what were to become known as hedge funds was a sociologist, Alfred Winslow Jones, in 1949.
(15) Stacey, a participant in a General Medical Council education conference, examines the role that medical ethics plays in medical practice from a sociologist's perspective.
(16) These actions targeted two demographics … most associated with ‘polluting’ Cairo’s city centre: street vendors and revolutionary activists.” Whether the wall’s lack of heritage status is a deliberate government strategy, AUC sociologist Mona Abaza, who has written extensively about the graffiti, says it certainly serves their political interests.
(17) Fukuyama distinguished his own position from that of the sociologist Daniel Bell , who published a collection of essays in 1960 titled The End of Ideology .
(18) There’s a lot of isolation and feeling like they’re not engaged in real life,” says Angela Angel, a corporate consultant and sociologist who wrote master thesis on mental well-being of male mobile workers in the resource sector.
(19) It charts the successful career of the manipulative and promiscuous radical sociologist, Howard Kirk, at the new University of Watermouth (which bears more than a passing resemblance to East Anglia), and satirises savagely his substitution of "trends for morals and commitments".
(20) In 2009, a University of Washington sociologist, Pepper Schwartz, reported that in nine out of 10 households that identify themselves as "feminist", the man did most of the driving when both partners were in the car.