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scientist

[sahy-uhn-tist] / ˈsaɪ ən tɪst /


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Arendt’s German accent, cutting formulations and adversarial composure—Hans Morgenthau, a political scientist and friend of Arendt, said she was an “intellectual street fighter”—became inseparable from her arguments.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

But Prof Penny Johnes, a leading water quality scientist at the University of Bristol, told BBC News the true picture was almost certainly worse than the classifications suggested.

From BBC Aug. 6, 2026

In September 2024, Novo scientist Lotte Bjerre Knudsen won a prestigious award — one that scientists often win before receiving a Nobel Prize — for her pioneering work on GLP-1s.

From MarketWatch Aug. 5, 2026

Hassabis will take on two new titles, Alphabet announced on Wednesday: chair of DeepMind and chief scientist of Alphabet.

From Barron's Aug. 5, 2026

I would be floundering without Karl's guidance, but Mr. Campbell is a scientist.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

Linus Pauling was one of the most brilliant scientists of the 20th century.

From Science Daily Aug. 7, 2026

When their fossils are discovered, it helps scientists piece together how local environments changed over time.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 7, 2026

And when space debris re-enters the atmosphere, scientists are on stand-by to issue alerts for objects which may not burn up before landfall.

From Barron's Aug. 7, 2026

The Bundibugyo strain is the rarest of the four known Ebola virus species, scientists say.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

“Well. Delaware is the capital of spatial teleportation. The scientific capital of the world, actually. The greatest scientists in the world live here, from on-world and off-world.”

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly




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