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a professional doubter paid to be wrong faster than everyone else.
means a person who studies the natural or physical world through systematic observation and experiment, especially as a profession.
from Surprisingly recent: the word was coined in 1833 by the polymath William Whewell, who proposed it by analogy with 'artist' — built from the Latin 'scientia' (knowledge, from 'scire,' to know). Before that, such people were called 'natural philosophers,' and many disliked 'scientist' at first, finding it crude. The label stuck anyway.
- young word
- Coined in 1833; before that, natural philosophers
- radium pioneer
- Marie Curie's notebooks are still dangerously radioactive
- failure rate
- Most published findings later fail to replicate
- odd habits
- Newton stared at the sun, nearly blinding himself
- Nobel snub
- Mendeleev predicted elements but never won one
albert einstein — physicist who developed theory of relativity, won nobel prize 1921
marie curie — chemist discovered polonium and radium, first woman to win nobel prize 1903
charles darwin — naturalist proposed theory of evolution on hms beagle voyage 1831-1836
isaac newton — mathematician and physicist formulated laws of motion and universal gravitation 1687