biotechniciann.
/ˌbʌɪə(ʊ)tɛkˈnɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌbaɪoʊˌtɛkˈnɪʃən/ A person, esp. a laboratory technician, involved in biotechnics or biotechnology; (in later use) spec. = biotechnologist n.In earliest use in Science Fiction.
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micrographer1668
micrologist1855
biophysicist1860
microbiologist1885
phenologist1888
biometrician1901
biometricist1902
bug chaser1911
psychobiologist1914
biotechnologist1920
sociobiologist1920
bioengineer1931
biotechnician1940
developmental biologist1940
neurobiologist1942
radiobiologist1946
virologist1946
photobiologist1958
prebiologist1963
mycoplasmologist1966
chronobiologist1976
genomicist1995
1940 N. L. Knight in Astounding Sci.-Fiction July 22/2 The process can be applied to human material—due care being taken not to tamper with the brain, which continues to be too uncertain an undertaking for the biotechnicians.
1945 Jrnl. Dental Educ. 9 196 It is my hope in the future to develop operative teachers who are bio-technicians; who on one hand may have a major interest in technics but will also have a well-founded interest in biology.
1949 M. A. Michael tr. T. J. B. Hoff Econ. Calculation in Socialist Society ii. 18 These doubts are also caused by technocratic propaganda and calculations made by engineers, bio-technicians and agrarian physiologists regarding the technical possibilities of production.
1963 P. Anderson in Analog Sci. Fact & Sci. Fiction June 53/1 ‘How long you been here, anyways?’ ‘Myself, about a year, as a biotechnician.’
1966 BioScience 16 696/3 The supporting biotechnicians generally should have strong formal training in biology..with some training in mathematics and chemistry.
1987 UNESCO Courier (Nexis) 1 Mar. 29 (caption) In a Kuala Lumpur laboratory..Malaysian biotechnicians tend test-tube cultures as part of a short-term project to produce elite oil-palms.
1992 Times (Nexis) 16 June However careful the biotechnicians are, doubts remain about the ethics of genetic engineering.
2002 Whole Earth Fall 71 There are leading biotechnicians who seriously anticipate the possibility of age reversal.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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