neurotomist

One who is skilled in or practices neurotomy.


thermologist

/θə(ɹ)ˈmɒləd͡ʒɪst/


genealogist

A person who studies or practises genealogy; an expert in genealogy.

نَسَّاب

person who studies or practises genealogy, expert in genealogy


mycologist

‘Iʼm not a mycologist but I believe you only get this formation when the fungus is forming reproductive organs.’

2019, Ben Aaronovitch, The October Man, Gollancz, pages 15–16:

A person who studies, professes or practices mycology.

міко́лаг

a person who studies, professes or practices mycology


biologist

Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.[…]A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that. Developed as a tool to electronically combine the sharpest bits of multiple digital images, focus stacking is a boon to biologists seeking full focus on a micron scale.

2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist:

Wildlife biologist Stanley Temple hypothesised that perhaps the dodo tree was dependent on its seeds passing through the digestive system of dodos in order to properly germinate and that the handful of individuals in the 1970s were the last remaining trees from seeds that passed through a dodo in the 1690s-1700s when they went extinct.

2017 May 3, Mark Carnall, “Finding zombies, ghosts and Elvis in the fossil record”, in The Guardian:

A student of biology; one versed in the science of biology.


genetic engineer

en-noun

genetic engineer (plural genetic engineers)

Coined by Poul Anderson in his 1954 novella "Big Rain", after the term genetic engineering.

Meanwhile giant pulverizers were reducing barren stone and sand to fine particles which would be mixed with fertilizers to yield soil; and the genetic engineers were evolving still other strains of life which could provide a balanced ecology; and the water units were under construction.

1954 October, Poul Anderson, “Big Rain”, in Astounding Science Fiction, volume 54, number 2, page 22:

The culture of embryos in the laboratory, destined to develop into adults whose physical and, possibly, intellectual characteristics had been chosen in advance by the genetic engineers.

A scientist or engineer whose specialty is genetic engineering.


cytologist

A scientist who studies the physical characteristics of chromosomes.


paleontologist

paleontologists (plural)
palaeontologist (alternative)
palæontologist (alternative)

An alternative approach is to break down cultures into ab-
 stract elements and to establish, between elements of the same
 type in different cultures, rather than between cultures themselves,
 the same kind of relationships of historical descent and progressive
 differentiation which the paleontologist sees in the evolution of
 species.

1963, Claude Lévy-Strauss, Structural Anthropology, New York: Basic Books, page 4:

In the late nineteenth century, paleontologists began to catalog the many curious correspondences exhibited by fossils gathered on different continents.

2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, →ISBN, page 197:


neurologist

When a neurologist ruled out medical causes like Lyme disease, Ms. Abaspour recalled, her husband said, “I think we should just give her a placebo — it’s all in her head.”

2006 October 22, Pam Belluck, “Living With Love, Chaos and Haley”, in The New York Times, retrieved 2016-12-09:

And most neurologists are in the habit of prescribing antispasticity drugs like tizanidine and baclofen, which are oral and inexpensive, but which cause drowsiness and weaken every muscle in the body, not just the target ones.

2009 March 17, Donald G. Mcneil Jr., “After a Stroke, Freeing Muscles With Botox”, in The New York Times:

A doctor or scientist who practices or specializes in neurology.


molecular biologist

molecular biologist (plural molecular biologists)

(biochemistry, genetics) a scientist who specializes in molecular biology


oncologist

/ɒŋˈkɒləd͡ʒɪst/

From oncology + -ist or onco- + -logist.

There's been a lot of screening, and people still die," says Ian Thompson, a urologic oncologist at the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio.

2009 February 13, Jennifer Couzin, “BIOMARKERS: Metabolite in Urine May Point To High-Risk Prostate Cancer”, in Science, volume 323, number 5916, →DOI:

When considered in combination with the use of antiangiogenic therapy, this diagnostic tool is easy to apply and has broad utility among medical oncologists to avoid the risk of hemosputum in the great vessels [ 5 ].

2015 July 30, Hidetaka Uramoto et al., “Easy Diagnosis of Aortic Invasion in Patients with Lung Cancer Using Cine Magnetic Resonance Imaging”, in Case Reports in Oncology, volume 8, →DOI:

(oncology) A doctor or scientist who specializes in oncology.


geneticist

From genetic (“related to genes”) + -ist (“person following a profession or interest”).

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The geneticist said Ryan had a rare genetic disorder called mucopolysaccharidosis I, or MPS I, with a wide-range of symptoms affecting multiple systems in the body.

2017 May 13, Ashley Strickland, “Warned he would die by age 10, he just graduated college”, in CNN:

A physician who diagnoses, treats, and counsels patients with genetic disorders or syndromes.


cladist

The pheneticist and evolutionist classify species and genera in this manner. Not so the cladist, who deals with the unknown quantities produced by phylo-genetic splits.

1997, Ernst Mayr, Evolution and the Diversity of Life: Selected Essays, page 448:

(systematics) A biologist who studies clades, an evolutionary biologist who studies the pattern of species interrelationships according to the principles of cladistics.


anatomist

But we can no longer regard the mere fact of these diffuse condensations of the lung becoming yellow and caseous as an evidence of their tuberculous nature, especially since the pathological anatomists, and among them Virchow, have shown that formations of the most different kind, having not the slightest connection with tubercule— as, for example, old cancerous masses, lymphatic glands swollen by a hyperplasia of cells, hæmorrhagical infarctions, abscesses, &c.— undergo exactly the same caseous transformation.

1868, Felix von Niemeyer, J. L Parke, Clinical Lectures on Pulmonary Phthisis, Moorhead, Simpson & Bond, page 3:

A plant anatomist receiving such samples can remove pickled wood and bark for anatomical study, then dry the remaining portions for inclusion in a xylarium.

1996, Tod F. Stuessy, S. H. Sohmer, Sampling the Green World: Innovative Concepts of Collection, Preservation, and Storage of Plant Diversity:

Gall's science of “bump reading” would ultimately be abandoned as much for its fixation on social categories as for an inability within the scientific community to replicate its findings. These scientific failings would be exposed by anatomists like Paul Broca (1861) and Carl Wernicke (1874) who pioneered the alternative neuroscientific method of lesion–symptom mapping.

2018 September 25, O. Parker Jones, F. Alfaro-Almagro, S. Jbabdi, “An empirical, 21st century evaluation of phrenology”, in Cortex, volume 106, pages 26–35:

One who studies, teaches, writes on, or does research on anatomy and anatomical structures.

مُشَرِّح

one involved in the science of anatomical structures


epidemiologist

In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.”

2013 January 25, Katie L. Burke, “Ecological Dependency”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, United States: Sigma Xi, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-02-09, page 64:

(epidemiology) A scientist (often a medical doctor) who specializes in epidemiology.

համաճարակաբան

scientist who specializes in epidemiology


taxonomist

Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.

1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii:

Ant taxonomists have decided that anything that's worth separating should be separated at the species level, and have no truck with subspecies at all. Butterfly taxonomists, however, like the triple-barrelled name approach and dote on subspecies. As a result, the numbers of ant species and butterfly species are not directly comparable.

2007 March 14, Emma Marris, “The Species and the Specious”, in Nature, number 446:

“People have biases towards species that are glamorous,” said Dr. Ernie Small, author of the study and taxonomist for Agriculture Canada.

2012 May 6, Eoghan Macguire, “Beauty trumps beast in conservation efforts”, in CNN:

Dr. Michela Mitchell, a taxonomist at the Queensland Museum Network, said in a statement released by Ocean Census it could be a type of deep-sea coral called octocoral.

2024 March 11, Katie Hunt, “Scientists discover 100 potential new deep-sea species, including mystery creature”, in CNN:

(taxonomy) Someone whose profession is taxonomy, or who performs taxonomy at a professional level.


virologist

(virology) A scientist or doctor who studies or specializes in viruses.

վիրուսաբան

scientist or doctor specializing in virology


allergist

As it warms up, expect everything to bloom at once, creating what allergists call a pollen vortex.

2018 April 22, “Local allergist says pollen vortex is on the way due to weather”, in WSBT-TV, archived from the original on 2024-04-25:

Despite a rough beginning, this season might not continue to be so brutal, and the pollen vortex could soon become a distant memory. For now, pollen counts remain high, and people who want help with their symptoms should go see an allergist.

2021 March 26, Jeffrey Kopman, “What Is a Pollen Vortex?”, in The Weather Channel, archived from the original on 2024-04-25:

A doctor who specializes in the treatment of allergies.


bacteriologist

/bækˌtɪəɹiˈɒlədʒɪst/

'This again,' said the Bacteriologist, slipping a glass slide under the microscope, 'is a preparation of the celebrated Bacillus of cholera – the cholera germ.'

A microbiologist whose speciality is bacteriology.


microbiologist

On a tour of the cavernous and gleaming BrewDog plant in Ellon, just north of Aberdeen, Dickie happily batted around terminology – IBU, ABV, pH, haze, present gravity, headspace oxygen – with PhD-level microbiologists working in the lab.

2016 March 24, Jon Henley, “The aggressive, outrageous, infuriating (and ingenious) rise of BrewDog”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

No, because we obsessively clean it (or use paper coverings at work), said microbiologist Charles Gerba, a professor of public health, environmental science and immunology at the University of Arizona.

2019 October 7, Sandee LaMotte, “The germiest place in your home and the best way to combat those microbes”, in CNN:

A scientist whose speciality is microbiology.


biochemist

A chemist whose speciality is biochemistry


biophysicist

A biologist or physicist whose speciality is biophysics.

բիոֆիզիկոս

a biologist or physicist whose speciality is biophysics


teratologist

(teratology) A scientist specializing in teratology.


haematologist

haematologists (plural)
hematologist (alternative)

A scientist, usually a medical doctor, who specializes in haematology.

hematòleg

scientist who specializes in haematology


palynologist

One who studies palynology (pollen, spores, and other particulate organic matter).


cryobiologist

a biologist who specializes in cryobiology


immunologist

A person who studies or practices medicine in the area of immunology.


evolutionary biologist

en-noun

evolutionary biologist (plural evolutionary biologists)

evolutionary biology
evolutionary biology

A scientist working in the field of evolutionary biology.


bioengineer

(biotechnology) A biologist or engineer whose speciality is bioengineering.


bioengineer

en-verb

bioengineer (third-person singular simple present bioengineers, present participle bioengineering, simple past and past participle bioengineered)

bioengineers (present singular third-person)
bioengineering (participle present)
bioengineered (participle past)
bioengineered (past)

(transitive, biotechnology) To produce or alter (something) by bioengineering.


allergologist

(rare) An allergist (a physician specializing in the treatment of allergies).


agrobiologist

One who studies bacteria and other organisms in soil for the purpose of growing crops or feeding animals.


biogeochemist

A scholar in the field of biogeochemistry.


systematist

A follower of systematism; one who reduces things to a system.


astrobiologist

A biologist whose speciality is astrobiology


geobiologist

A biologist whose speciality is geobiology.


exobiologist

A biologist whose speciality is exobiology.


biostatistician

Richard J. Chappell, a University of Wisconsin biostatistician and a committee member, voted against the drug’s efficacy.

2007 March 30, Andrew Pollack, “Panel Endorses New Anti-Tumor Treatment”, in New York Times:

Andrew Vickers is a biostatistician at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.

2008 January 22, Andrew Vickers, “Cancer Data? Sorry, Can’t Have It”, in New York Times:

Dr. Kennedy is survived by his wife, the former Kathryn Davis, a biostatistician who contributed to his reviews of coronary therapies.

2008 June 20, Jeremy Pearce, “J. Ward Kennedy Is Dead at 74; Studied Heart Pumping”, in New York Times:

Person making or doing research on biostatistics.


marine biologist

en-noun

marine biologist (plural marine biologists)

海洋生物学者

かいようせいぶつがくしゃ


archaeogeneticist

(archaeology, genetics) A geneticist whose speciality is archaeogenetics

archeogenetikus

a geneticist whose speciality is archaeogenetics


neuroanatomist

Chet Sherwood, a neuroanatomist who studied with Dr. Holloway and is now based at George Washington University, said Dr. Holloway's penchant for getting into scientific arguments had not diminished.

2007 November 27, Michael Balter, “In Study of Brain Evolution, Zeal and Bitter Debate”, in New York Times:


aerobiologist

A biologist specializing in aerobiology.


lipidologist

Her father is an endocrinologist and lipidologist in St. Louis and an associate professor of clinical medicine at Washington University in St. Louis.

2008 January 20, “Margo Crespin, Joshua Rosenbaum”, in New York Times:

A scientist involved in lipidology, the study of fats.


cytotechnologist

Her mother retired as a clinical instructor and cytotechnologist at the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington, Conn.

2009 September 6, “Catherine Rychert, Nicholas Harmon”, in New York Times:

A scientist working in the field of cytotechnology.


nosologist

Disagreeing with Iowa’s nosologist, Ms. Petersen says the lethal consequences of overprescribed or misprescribed drugs are too readily accepted as “natural” death.

2008 March 17, Janet Maslin, “The Case for Another Drug War, Against Pharmaceutical Marketers’ Dirty Tactics”, in New York Times:


algologist

/ælˈɡɒlədʒɪst/


micropaleontologist

micropaleontologists (plural)
micropalaeontologist (alternative)
micropalæontologist (alternative)


fungologist

(archaic) One who studies fungi; a mycologist.


bioscientist

A scientist who specializes in any of the biosciences


biological psychologist

biological psychologist (plural biological psychologists)

A type of psychologist who explores the application of the principles of biology to the study of mental processes and behaviors.


protozoologist

A zoologist whose speciality is protozoology.


dendroclimatologist

From dendro- + climatologist or dendroclimatology + -ist.


pathoanatomist

One who works in the field of pathoanatomy.


cancerologist

Someone who studies or specializes in cancerology.


leprologist

From leprology + -ist, equivalent to leprosy + -ologist.

A student of leprology, a doctor or researcher specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of leprosy.


radiobiologist

One who studies or carries out radiobiology.


bioarcheologist

The desire to maintain specimens intact is shared by bioarcheologists too.

2015 August 6, Otto Appenzeller et al., “Bioarcheology: Medicine, Biology, and Forensic Sciences”, in BioMed Research International, volume 2015, →DOI:


bioclimatologist

From bio- + climatologist or bioclimatology + -ist.

Park Williams, a bioclimatologist at Columbia University, said the study added to evidence that rising temperatures had exacerbated the lack of snow in California.

2015 September 14, Nicholas St. Fleur, “Study Finds Snowpack in California’s Sierra Nevada to Be Lowest in 500 Years”, in New York Times:


bioacoustician

From either bio- + acoustician or bioacoustic(s) + -ian.


histoscientist

A scientist whose speciality is histopathology.


biogeoscientist

We are seeking a Biogeoscientist to teach introductory, intermediate, and advanced biology and environmental studies courses.

2003, Black Issues in Higher Education, Volume 20, Issues 8-14:

A scholar or researcher in biogeoscience.


developmental biologist

developmental biologist (plural developmental biologists)

developmental biology
developmental biology


population biologist

population biologist (plural population biologists)


evolutionary taxonomist

evolutionary taxonomist (plural evolutionary taxonomists)

A taxonomist who erects taxa based on evolutionary similarities, without requiring that each taxon be a clade.


phyleticist

A taxonomist who uses both cladistics and phenetic data to construct a phylogeny.


numerical taxonomist

numerical taxonomist (plural numerical taxonomists)

A scientist who uses or promotes numerical taxonomy.


tocologist

One who studies tocology; an obstetrician.


mycobacteriologist

A bacteriologist whose speciality is mycobacteria


histotechnologist

A scientist working in the field of histotechnology.


histoanatomist

An anatomist whose speciality is histoanatomy.


cyanobacteriologist

A bacteriologist whose speciality is cyanobacteria


neurographer

A radiographer whose speciality is neurography


microevolutionist

Someone who believes in microevolution, especially as opposed to macroevolution.


picornavirologist

Picornavirologists should be proud that several most important discoveries in the molecular biology of RNA replication have been made by using their viruses.

1999, “Paradoxes of the replication of picornaviral genomes”, in Virus Research, volume 62, page 129:

I deeply appreciate their help, not only now but also at different stages of my my activity as a picornavirologist.

2015, Esteban Domingo, Virus as Populations: Composition, Complexity, Dynamics, and Biological Implications:


ciliatologist

From ciliatology + -ist or ciliate + -ologist.

A scientist who specializes in ciliatology.


micrococcologist

A bacteriologist whose speciality is micrococci


epidermologist

A scientist whose speciality is epidermology.

A cosmetologist whose speciality is epidermology.

épidermologue

cosmetologist specializing in epidermology


phytobacteriologist

A bacteriologist whose speciality is the phytobacteria


cytotech

Coordinate term: histotech

(medicine) Clipping of cytotechnologist or cytotechnician.


histotech

Coordinate term: cytotech

(medicine) Clipping of histotechnologist or histotechnician.