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PERSONALLY, I should say “man of science” rather than “scientist”; but I do not think one can deny to the word scientist its legitimate place in English. It is recorded in the “Oxford Dictionary,” together, I admit, with a good many words which a man does not use if he can help it. But the place of “scientist” in the English vocabulary must have been fairly safe since Whewell wrote in 1840, “We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I should incline to call him a Scientist.”
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CHAMBERS, R. The Word “Scientist” or its Substitute. Nature 114, 824 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/114824f0
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