different between scientist vs meteoriticist

English

Etymology

Coined by English polymath William Whewell in March 1834 in an anonymous review of Mary Somerville's book On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences in the Quarterly Review as a suggested replacement for, and later seriously introduced by him in 1840 as a more precise substitute for, the terms natural philosopher and man of science. Modeled after artist, from the Latin stem scientia (“knowledge”) with the suffix -ist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sa?.?n.t?st/

Noun

scientist (plural scientists)

1. One whose activities make use of the scientific method to answer questions regarding the measurable universe. A scientist may be involved in original research, or make use of the results of the research of others.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• citizen scientist
• citizen-scientist

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Portuguese: cientista

Translations

See also

• peer review

References

Further reading

• scientist on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Romanian

Etymology

From French scientiste

Noun

scientist m (plural scienti?ti)

1. scientist (advocate of scientism)

Declension

English

Etymology

meteoritic +? -ist.

Noun

meteoriticist (plural meteoriticists)

1. (astronomy, mineralogy, geochemistry, cosmochemistry) A scientist involved in meteoritics.
   • 1967, Robert Shirley Richardson, Getting Acquainted with Comets, McGraw-Hill, page 133,

     The following is a not-too-imaginary conversation between a meteoriticist and an important on-the-spot witness to a fireball that went soaring over his alfalfa patch.

   • 1986, Robert T. Dodd, Thunderstones and Shooting Stars: The Meaning of Meteorites, Harvard University Press, page 90,

     In spite of this reservation, most meteoriticists now accept extinct aluminum-26 as the most likely source of heat for the meteorite parent bodies: it was abundant when the solar system formed, and it decayed fast enough to account for the intense but brief thermal histories of most meteorites.

   • 1997, The Planetary Report, Volumes 17-18, The Planetary Society, page 20,

     Most of the meteoriticists who "discover" new meteorites depend on someone from the general public to bring in a strange rock they have encountered.

Translations

Further reading

• Meteoritics on Wikipedia.Wikipedia