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kineticist|kaɪˈnɛtɪsɪst|
[f. kinetics + -ist 2.]
1. An expert in or student of kinetics (sense 2) or gas kinetics.
1960S. W. Benson Found. Chem. Kinetics p. ix, I should like to acknowledge my most profound indebtedness to the many kineticists whose work has served as guide and inspiration. 1972J. C. Polanyi Chem. Kinetics p. ix, The earliest concern of the kineticist was the overall rate of chemical reactions. 1972Nature 17 Mar. 99/2 It is also very likely that the stem cells of a tumour..are not estimated by the averaged measurements easily available to the kineticist. 1973Ibid. 16 Feb. p. xv (Advt.), Applicants should be either gas kineticists, with an interest in photochemistry and spectroscopy, or have experience in mass spectroscopy.
2. A kinetic artist. Cf. kinetic a. 6.
1970Guardian 10 Feb. 8/4 Like a lot of the kineticists, she went on record..with some dauntingly pretentious statements..[about] the need to create constellations in her ‘Perspex’ and liquid reflections. 1971Guardian 24 June 10/3 In the late fifties..many kineticists..were enraged by the élitism of the gallery system. 1971J. Willett in A. Bullock 20th Century x. 245/1 The Swiss kineticist Jean Tinguely's prodigally ingenious self⁓destructive machines. |