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Chemist vs Biologist - What's the difference?

chemist | biologist |

As nouns the difference between chemist and biologist

is that chemist is a person who specializes in the science of chemistry, especially at a professional level while biologist is a student of biology; one versed in the science of biology.

chemist

English

(wikipedia chemist)

Alternative forms

* chimist (obsolete), chymist (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who specializes in the science of chemistry, especially at a professional level.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= A new prescription , passage=As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.}}
  • (chiefly, British, NZ) A pharmacist.
  • (chiefly, British, NZ) A pharmacy.
  • (obsolete) An alchemist.

    • Synonyms

    * (pharmacist) apothecary, druggist, pharmacist * (pharmacy) chemist's (British), chemist's shop (British), drugstore (US), pharmacy (especially US)

    Related terms

    * chemistry * alchemist

    Anagrams

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    biologist

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A student of biology; one versed in the science of biology.
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    • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= Focus on Everything , passage=Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.