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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 wordCoined in 1833; before that, natural philosophers
radium pioneerMarie Curie's notebooks are still dangerously radioactive
failure rateMost published findings later fail to replicate
odd habitsNewton stared at the sun, nearly blinding himself
Nobel snubMendeleev predicted elements but never won one