human, individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"

cosmographer, cosmographist - a scientist knowledgeable about cosmography

bibliotist - someone who engages in bibliotics

biologist, life scientist - (biology) a scientist who studies living organisms

chemist - a scientist who specializes in chemistry

cognitive scientist - a student of cognitive processes

computer scientist - a scientist who specializes in the theory of computation and the design of computers

geologist - a specialist in geology

linguist, linguistic scientist - a specialist in linguistics

mathematician - a person skilled in mathematics

medical scientist - a scientist who studies disease processes

microscopist - a scientist who specializes in research with the use of microscopes

mineralogist - a scientist trained in mineralogy

oceanographer - a scientist who studies physical and biological aspects of the seas

fossilist, palaeontologist, paleontologist - a specialist in paleontology

physicist - a scientist trained in physics

principal investigator, PI - the scientist in charge of an experiment or research project

psychologist - a scientist trained in psychology

radiologic technologist - a scientist trained in radiological technology

investigator, research worker, researcher - a scientist who devotes himself to doing research

seismologist - a scientist who studies earthquakes

social scientist - someone expert in the study of human society and its personal relationships

Roger Bacon, Bacon - English scientist and Franciscan monk who stressed the importance of experimentation; first showed that air is required for combustion and first used lenses to correct vision (1220-1292)

Benjamin Franklin, Franklin - printer whose success as an author led him to take up politics; he helped draw up the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution; he played a major role in the American Revolution and negotiated French support for the colonists; as a scientist he is remembered particularly for his research in electricity (1706-1790)

Francis Galton, Galton, Sir Francis Galton - English scientist (cousin of Charles Darwin) who explored many fields: heredity, meteorology, statistics, psychology, anthropology; founder of eugenics and first to use fingerprints for identification (1822-1911)

Harvey, William Harvey - English physician and scientist who described the circulation of the blood; he later proposed that all animals originate from an ovum produced by the female of the species (1578-1657)

Hooke, Robert Hooke - English scientist who formulated the law of elasticity and proposed a wave theory of light and formulated a theory of planetary motion and proposed the inverse square law of gravitational attraction and discovered the cellular structure of cork and introduced the term `cell' into biology and invented a balance spring for watches (1635-1703)