research scientists
Professional knowledge seekers
Research scientists are professionals who conduct systematic investigation to expand knowledge in a field.
They design experiments, gather data, analyze results, and publish findings.
The term spans disciplines from biology to physics to social sciences: The research scientists discovered a new compound.
Distinguished from applied scientists, research scientists typically focus on fundamental questions rather than immediate practical applications.
- tenure trackProbationary academic employment path
- grant proposalDocument requesting financial support
- biologyStudy of organisms
- experimentationSystematic testing of ideas
- microscopeInstrument for viewing minute objects
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- industry workerstechnicians, engineers, managers, analysts, operators
- Tech InnovatorsThomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Alan Turing
- oncology figuresoncologists
research scientiststechnicians
Skilled equipment handlers
practitioners · clinicians · tradespeople · craftsmen · field workers
research scientistsfaith healers
Those claiming supernatural cures
mystics · pseudoscientists · charlatans · astrologers · snake oil salesmen
research scientistslaypeople
Those outside a profession
non-experts · amateurs · dilettantes · ignoramuses · know-nothings
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