Science Researcher
A Science Researcher is a researcher who has performed a scientific research task (using a scientific learning method).
- AKA: Scientist.
- Context:
- They can be a Physicist, Biologist, Neuroscientist, Computer Scientist, Behavioral Scientists, or a Social Scientist.
- They can range from being an Applied Scientist to being a Theoretical Scientist.
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- Example(s):
- Nicolas Copernicus (1473-1543).
- Tycho Brahe (1546–1601).
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642).
- Johannes Kepler (1571-1630.
- Isaac Newton (1642-1727).
- Antoine Lavoisier.
- Maxwell, of Maxwell's Equations.
- Charles Darwin (1809–1882), of Biological Evolution.
- Dmitri Mendeleev (1834–1907)/(Lothar Meyer (1830–1895), Independent Discoverers of Period Table.
- Marie Curie (1867-1934).
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955).
- Richard Feynman.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- a Practitioner.
- an Engineer.
- a Philosopher, such as a Aristotle, Hume, Kant, ...
- a Mathematician.
- an Economist.
- See: Expert, Research Paper, Experiment, Empirical Researcher.
References
2013
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientist
- A scientist, in a broad sense, is one engaging in a systematic activity to acquire knowledge. In a more restricted sense, a scientist is an individual who uses the scientific method.[1] The person may be an expert in one or more areas of science.[2] This article focuses on the more restricted use of the word. Scientists perform research toward a more comprehensive understanding of nature, including physical, mathematical and social realms.
Philosophy can be seen as a distinct activity, which is aimed towards a more comprehensive understanding of intangible aspects of reality and experience that cannot be physically measured.
Scientists are also distinct from engineers, those who design, build and maintain devices for particular situations. When science is done with a goal toward practical utility, it is called applied science. An applied scientist may not be designing something in particular, but rather is conducting research with the aim of developing new technologies and practical methods. When science is done with an inclusion of intangible aspects of reality it is called natural philosophy.
- A scientist, in a broad sense, is one engaging in a systematic activity to acquire knowledge. In a more restricted sense, a scientist is an individual who uses the scientific method.[1] The person may be an expert in one or more areas of science.[2] This article focuses on the more restricted use of the word. Scientists perform research toward a more comprehensive understanding of nature, including physical, mathematical and social realms.
- ↑ Isaac Newton (1687, 1713, 1726). “[4] Rules for the study of natural philosophy", Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, Third edition. The General Scholium containing the 4 rules follows Book 3, The System of the World. Reprinted on pages 794-796 of I. Bernard Cohen and Anne Whitman's 1999 translation, University of California Press ISBN 0-520-08817-4, 974 pages.
- ↑ Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed. 1989
2010
- (Oreskes & Conway, 2010) ⇒ Naomi Oreskes, and Erik M. Conway. (2010). “Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming." Bloomsbury Publishing USA.
- QUOTE: ... Scientists are finely honed specialists trained to create new knowledge, but they have little training in how to communicate to broad audiences, even less in how to defend scientific work against determined and well-finance contrarians. ...