CHEMIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chemist mean? 

• CHEMIST (noun)
  The noun CHEMIST has 2 senses:

1. a scientist who specializes in chemistry

2. a health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs

  Familiarity information: CHEMIST used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHEMIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A scientist who specializes in chemistry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("chemist" is a kind of...):

scientist (a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences)

Domain category:

chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chemist"):

nuclear chemist; radiochemist (a chemist who specializes in nuclear chemistry)

phytochemist (a chemist who specializes in the chemistry of plants)

biochemist (someone with special training in biochemistry)

Instance hyponyms:

Joseph Priestley; Priestley (English chemist who isolated many gases and discovered oxygen (independently of Scheele) (1733-1804))

Irving Langmuir; Langmuir (United States chemist who studied surface chemistry and developed the gas-filled tungsten lamp and worked on high temperature electrical discharges (1881-1957))

Linus Carl Pauling; Linus Pauling; Pauling (United States chemist who studied the nature of chemical bonding (1901-1994))

Louis Pasteur; Pasteur (French chemist and biologist whose discovery that fermentation is caused by microorganisms resulted in the process of pasteurization (1822-1895))

Ostwald; Wilhelm Ostwald (German chemist (1853-1932))

Lars Onsager; Onsager (United States chemist (born in Norway) noted for his work in thermodynamics (1903-1976))

Norrish; Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (English chemist (1897-1978))

Alfred Bernhard Nobel; Alfred Nobel; Nobel (Swedish chemist remembered for his invention of dynamite and for the bequest that created the Nobel prizes (1833-1896))

Nernst; Walther Hermann Nernst (German physicist and chemist who formulated the third law of thermodynamics (1864-1941))

Giulio Natta; Natta (Italian chemist noted for work on polymers (1903-1979))

Muller; Paul Hermann Muller (Swiss chemist who synthesized DDT and discovered its use as an insecticide (1899-1965))

Carl Gustaf Mossander; Mosander (Swedish chemist who discovered rare earth elements (1797-1858))

E. W. Morley; Edward Morley; Edward Williams Morley; Morley (United States chemist and physicist who collaborated with Michelson in the Michelson-Morley experiment (1838-1923))

Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev; Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleyev; Dmitri Mendeleev; Dmitri Mendeleyev; Mendeleev; Mendeleyev (Russian chemist who developed a periodic table of the chemical elements and predicted the discovery of several new elements (1834-1907))

Lipscomb; William Nunn Lipscom Jr. (United States chemist noted for his theories of molecular structure (born in 1919))

Libby; Willard Frank Libby (United States chemist who developed a method of radiocarbon dating (1908-1980))

Henry le Chatelier; le Chatelier (French chemist who formulated Le Chatelier's principle (1850-1936))

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier; Antoine Lavoisier; Lavoisier (French chemist known as the father of modern chemistry; discovered oxygen and disproved the theory of phlogiston (1743-1794))

Harold Kroto; Harold W. Kroto; Kroto; Sir Harold Walter Kroto (British chemist who with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1939))

Ernest Solvay; Solvay (Belgian chemist who developed the Solvay process and built factories exploiting it (1838-1922))

Richard Adolph Zsigmondy; Zsigmondy (German chemist (born in Austria) honored for his research on colloidal solutions (1865-1929))

Karl Waldemar Ziegler; Ziegler (German chemist honored for his research on polymers (1898-1973))

Bob Woodward; Robert Burns Woodward; Robert Woodward; Woodward (United States chemist honored for synthesizing complex organic compounds (1917-1979))

William Hyde Wollaston; Wollaston (English chemist and physicist who discovered palladium and rhodium and demonstrated that static and current electricity are the same (1766-1828))

Adolf Windaus; Windaus (German chemist who studied steroids and cholesterol and discovered histamine (1876-1959))

Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson; Wilkinson (English chemist honored for his research on pollutants in car exhausts (born in 1921))

Harold Clayton Urey; Harold Urey; Urey (United States chemist who discovered deuterium (1893-1981))

Lord Todd; Sir Alexander Robertus Todd; Todd (Scottish chemist noted for his research into the structure of nucleic acids (born in 1907))

Soren Peter Lauritz Sorensen; Sorensen (Danish chemist who devised the pH scale (1868-1939))

Reichstein; Tadeus Reichstein (a Swiss chemist born in Poland; studied the hormones of the adrenal cortex)

Frederick Soddy; Soddy (English chemist whose work on radioactive disintegration led to the discovery of isotopes (1877-1956))

Richard E. Smalley; Richard Errett Smalley; Richard Smalley; Smalley (American chemist who with Robert Curl and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1943))

Glenn T. Seaborg; Glenn Theodore Seaborg; Seaborg (United States chemist who was one of the discoverers of plutonium (1912-1999))

Christian Friedrich Schonbein; Christian Schonbein; Schonbein (German chemist who discovered ozone and developed guncotton as a propellant in firearms (1799-1868))

Karl Scheele; Karl Wilhelm Scheele; Scheele (Swedish chemist (born in Germany) who discovered oxygen before Priestley did (1742-1786))

Daniel Rutherford; Rutherford (British chemist who isolated nitrogen (1749-1819))

Robert Robinson; Robinson; Sir Robert Robinson (English chemist noted for his studies of molecular structures in plants (1886-1975))

Richard J. Roberts; Richard John Roberts; Roberts (United States biochemist (born in England) honored for his discovery that some genes contain introns (born in 1943))

Carver; George Washington Carver (United States botanist and agricultural chemist who developed many uses for peanuts and soy beans and sweet potatoes (1864-1943))

Erlenmeyer; Richard August Carl Emil Erlenmeyer (German chemist (1825-1909))

Eigen; Manfred Eigen (German chemist who did research on high-speed chemical reactions (born in 1927))

Dewar; Sir James Dewar (Scottish chemist and physicist noted for his work in cryogenics and his invention of the Dewar flask (1842-1923))

Davy; Humphrey Davy; Sir Humphrey Davy (English chemist who was a pioneer in electrochemistry and who used it to isolate elements sodium and potassium and barium and boron and calcium and magnesium and chlorine (1778-1829))

Dalton; John Dalton (English chemist and physicist who formulated atomic theory and the law of partial pressures; gave the first description of red-green color blindness (1766-1844))

Curl; Robert Curl; Robert F. Curl; Robert Floyd Curl Jr. (American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933))

Curie; Madame Curie; Marie Curie; Marya Sklodowska (French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel prizes; one (with her husband and Henri Becquerel) for research on radioactivity and another for her discovery of radium and polonium (1867-1934))

Crookes; Sir William Crookes; William Crookes (English chemist and physicist; discovered thallium; invented the radiometer and studied cathode rays (1832-1919))

Cavendish; Henry Cavendish (British chemist and physicist who established that water is a compound of hydrogen and oxygen and who calculated the density of the earth (1731-1810))

Klaproth; Martin Heinrich Klaproth (German chemist who pioneered analytical chemistry and discovered three new elements (1743-1817))

Carothers; Wallace Carothers; Wallace Hume Carothers (United States chemist who developed nylon (1896-1937))

Calvin; Melvin Calvin (United States chemist noted for discovering the series of chemical reactions in photosynthesis (1911-))

Bunsen; Robert Bunsen; Robert Wilhelm Bunsen (German chemist who with Kirchhoff pioneered spectrum analysis but is remembered mainly for his invention of the Bunsen burner (1811-1899))

Buchner; Eduard Buchner (German organic chemist who studied alcoholic fermentation and discovered zymase (1860-1917))

Boyle; Robert Boyle (Irish chemist who established that air has weight and whose definitions of chemical elements and chemical reactions helped to dissociate chemistry from alchemy (1627-1691))

Black; Joseph Black (British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799))

Berzelius; Jons Jakob Berzelius (Swedish chemist who discovered three new elements and determined the atomic weights of many others (1779-1848))

Arrhenius; Svante August Arrhenius (Swedish chemist and physicist noted for his theory of chemical dissociation (1859-1927))

Emil Hermann Fischer; Fischer (German chemist noted for work on synthetic sugars and the purines (1852-1919))

Kuhn; Richard Kuhn (Austrian chemist who did research on carotenoids and vitamins (1900-1967))

Friedrich August Kekule; Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz; Kekule (German chemist remembered for his discovery of the ring structure of benzene (1829-1896))

August Wilhelm von Hoffmann; Hoffmann (German chemist (1818-1892))

Hoffmann; Roald Hoffmann (United States chemist (born in Poland) who used quantum mechanics to understand chemical reactions (born in 1937))

Dorothy Hodgkin; Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin; Hodgkin (English chemist (born in Egypt) who used crystallography to study the structure of organic compounds (1910-1994))

Heyrovsky; Joroslav Heyrovsky (Czechoslovakian chemist who developed polarography (1890-1967))

George Charles Hevesy de Hevesy; Hevesy (Hungarian chemist who studied radioisotopes and was one of the discoverers of the element hafnium (1885-1966))

Henry; William Henry (English chemist who studied the quantities of gas absorbed by water at different temperatures and under different pressures (1775-1836))

Hassel; Odd Hassel (Norwegian chemist noted for his research on organic molecules (1897-1981))

Charles Martin Hall; Hall (United States chemist who developed an economical method of producing aluminum from bauxite (1863-1914))

Hahn; Otto Hahn (German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968))

Fritz Haber; Haber (German chemist noted for the synthetic production of ammonia from the nitrogen in air (1868-1934))

Gibbs; Josiah Willard Gibbs (United States chemist (1839-1903))

Gay-Lussac; Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (French chemist and physicist who first isolated boron and who formulated the law describing the behavior of gases under constant pressure (1778-1850))

Flory; Paul John Flory (United States chemist who developed methods for studying long-chain molecules (1910-1985))

Fischer; Hans Fischer (German chemist noted for his synthesis of hemin (1881-1945))

Faraday; Michael Faraday (the English physicist and chemist who discovered electromagnetic induction (1791-1867))

Derivation:

chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

apothecary; chemist; druggist; pharmacist; pill pusher; pill roller

Hypernyms ("chemist" is a kind of...):

caregiver; health care provider; health professional; PCP; primary care provider (a person who helps in identifying or preventing or treating illness or disability)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chemist"):

pharmaceutical chemist; pharmacologist (someone trained in the science of drugs (their composition and uses and effects))

Derivation:

chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)

 Context examples 

"Right now, policymakers generally assume that polystyrene lasts forever in the environment," says Collin Ward, a marine chemist at WHOI and lead author of the study.

(Sunlight degrades polystyrene faster than expected, National Science Foundation)

Palmer and team are already working with medicinal chemists at UC San Diego to develop drugs that target GLO1.

(New Method for Treating Depression, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Heitor Cantarella received the International Fertilizer Association’s (IFA) Norman Borlaug Award on World Fertilizer Day, on 13 October — the date German chemist Fritz Haber discovered the synthesis of ammonia in 1908.

(Method that cuts sugarcane emissions gets global prize, SciDev.Net)

“The biofilm may also be used to coat other food packages, providing greater mechanical resistance and protection against microorganisms,” Luiz Fernando Gorup said, a chemist also at UFGD and biofilm co-creator.

(Protective bio-shell could extend egg shelf life, SciDev.Net)

A man would make but a very sorry chemist if he attended to that department of human knowledge alone.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Only when a new sample comes from the chemist, there’s a bit of a break.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

For the first time, chemists at the University of Illinois at Chicago have used a path-breaking optical imaging technique to pinpoint cholesterol's location and movement within the cell membrane.

(Researchers Zero-In on Cholesterol's Role in Cells, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Before YInMn blue, the last blue discovery was cobalt aluminum oxide-based blue, synthesized by a French chemist in 1802.

(Chemists find path to 'new blue' in meteorite minerals, National Science Foundation)

What chemist sold him the powdered opium?

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Whether he could go into the next street, and open a chemist's shop?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)