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So long ago as 1840, according to the “Oxford Dictionary,” Dr. Whewell, eminent as man of letters as well as man of science, wrote: “We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I should incline to call him a Scientist.” I do not think the objections to the word on merely literary or linguistic grounds can be maintained. It is a hybrid, but the language is full of hybrids: moreover, it may well be argued that -istis naturalised as an English termination.
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FOWLER, J. The Word “Scientist” or its Substitute. Nature 114, 824 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/114824b0
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