BIOCHEMIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does biochemist mean? 

• BIOCHEMIST (noun)
  The noun BIOCHEMIST has 1 sense:

1. someone with special training in biochemistry

  Familiarity information: BIOCHEMIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BIOCHEMIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone with special training in biochemistry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("biochemist" is a kind of...):

chemist (a scientist who specializes in chemistry)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "biochemist"):

enzymologist (a person who is trained in or engaged in enzymology)

Instance hyponyms:

Fritz Albert Lipmann; Lipmann (United States biochemist (born in Germany) noted for his studies of metabolic processes (1899-1986))

Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins; Maurice Wilkins; Wilkins (English biochemist who helped discover the structure of DNA (1916-2004))

Otto Heinrich Warburg; Warburg (German biochemist who pioneered the use of chemical techniques in biological investigations; noted for studies of cellular respiration (1883-1970))

Edward Lawrie Tatum; Tatum (United States biochemist who discovered how genes act by regulating definite chemical events (1909-1975))

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi; Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi; Szent-Gyorgyi (United States biochemist (born in Hungary) who was the first to isolate vitamin C (1893-1986))

Fred Sanger; Frederick Sanger; Sanger (English biochemist who determined the sequence of amino acids in insulin and who invented a technique to determine the genetic sequence of an organism (born in 1918))

Max Ferdinand Perutz; Max Perutz; Perutz (English biochemist (born in Austria); studied the molecular structure of blood (1914-2002))

Ochoa; Severo Ochoa (United States biochemist (born in Spain) who studied the biological synthesis of nucleic acids (1905-1993))

John Howard Northrop; Northrop (United States biochemist (1891-1987))

Jacques Lucien Monod; Jacques Monod; Monod (French biochemist who (with Francois Jacob) explained how genes are activated and suggested the existence of messenger RNA (1910-1976))

Meyerhof; Otto Fritz Meyerhof; Otto Meyerhof (United States biochemist (born in Germany) who studied the metabolism of muscles (1884-1951))

Hans Adolf Krebs; Krebs; Sir Hans Adolf Krebs (English biochemist (born in Germany) who discovered the Krebs cycle (1900-1981))

Edward Calvin Kendall; Edward Kendall; Kendall (United States biochemist who discovered cortisone (1886-1972))

Francois Jacob; Jacob (French biochemist who (with Jacques Monod) studied regulatory processes in cells (born in 1920))

Hopkins; Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins (English biochemist who did pioneering work that led to the discovery of vitamins (1861-1947))

George Herbert Hitchings; Hitchings (United States biochemist noted for developing drugs to treat leukemia and gout (1905-1998))

Haworth; Sir Walter Norman Haworth (English biochemist who was a pioneer in research on carbohydrates; when he synthesized vitamin C he became the first person to synthesize a vitamin artificially (1883-1950))

Casimir Funk; Funk (United States biochemist (born in Poland) who showed that several diseases were caused by dietary deficiencies and who coined the term 'vitamin' for the chemicals involved (1884-1967))

Crick; Francis Crick; Francis Henry Compton Crick (English biochemist who (with Watson in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (1916-2004))

Chain; Ernst Boris Chain; Sir Ernst Boris Chain (British biochemist (born in Germany) who isolated and purified penicillin, which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming (1906-1979))

Derivation:

biochemistry (the organic chemistry of compounds and processes occurring in organisms; the effort to understand biology within the context of chemistry)

 Context examples 

"Two-thirds of all drugs, including those used for chemotherapy, target proteins found on cell membranes," said Mahmoud Moradi, a biochemist at the university.

(Study shows limitations of method for determining protein structure, National Science Foundation)

Biochemists are working to synthetically manufacture vaterite as it has potential for use in drug delivery, but it is not easy to make.

(Rare mineral discovered in plants for first time, University of Cambridge)