biotechnologistn.
/ˌbʌɪə(ʊ)tɛkˈnɒlədʒɪst/, U.S. /ˌbaɪoʊˌtɛkˈnɑlədʒəst/ An expert or specialist in biotechnology; (in later use esp.) an expert in genetic engineering. Cf. biotechnician n.
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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
1920 Bull. Bureau Bio-Technol. 1 8 Mr A. C. Chapman, a leading biotechnologist, proposed the establishment of a national institute for the study of biotechnics.
1964 Life Sci. 3 686 Conscious and subconscious conditioning..yet to be studied by biotechnologists and medicotechnologists in manned aerospace regimens.
1987 Economist 19 Dec. 76/3 Biotechnologists, as the earliest gengineers were called, had no idea that their work would prove so fruitful.
1993 R. J. Pond Introd. Engin. Technol. (ed. 2) ii. 25 (caption) A biotechnologist collects data on biomaterials in the laboratory.
2000 L. Crane Ninth Day of Creation p. vii In 1990, when Michael Crichton envisioned..the dinosaur-cloning creators of ‘Jurassic Park’, it was easy to imagine the biotechnologists as the group poised to produce the next world-changing technology.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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