MAN OF SCIENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does man of science mean? 

• MAN OF SCIENCE (noun)
  The noun MAN OF SCIENCE has 1 sense:

1. a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences

  Familiarity information: MAN OF SCIENCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAN OF SCIENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

man of science; scientist

Hypernyms ("man of science" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

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

cosmographer; cosmographist (a scientist knowledgeable about cosmography)

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)

PI; principal investigator (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)

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

mineralogist (a scientist trained in mineralogy)

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

medical scientist (a scientist who studies disease processes)

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 scientist who studies 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)

Instance hyponyms:

Bacon; Roger 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))