molecularistn.
/məˈlɛkjᵿlərɪst/, U.S. /məˈlɛkjələrəst/ A person who brings molecular events or phenomena into explanations of things or descriptions of phenomena.
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proto-chemist1650
zymologist1828
physico-chemist1866
molecularist1869
food chemist1885
thermochemist1890
photochemist1894
physical chemist1896
zymotechnologist1896
radiochemist1917
immunochemist1930
stereochemist1937
polymer chemist1948
radiation chemist1951
kineticist1960
stereologist1963
1869 J. H. Stirling As regards Protoplasm 61 Neither molecularists nor Darwinians, then, are able to level out the difference between organic and inorganic.
1969 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 30 430 The physical content in British theories was drawn, not from astronomical analogies as with the French molecularists, but from engineering, from the characteristics of real materials.
1996 Zool. Stud. 35 161 Differences exist between molecularists (geneticists) and morphologists as to their respective conceptions of phylogenetic trees.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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