molecular biologist

/məˌlɛkjələr baɪˌɑlədʒəst/

Other forms: molecular biologists

Definitions of molecular biologist

1. noun

   a biologist who studies the structure and activity of macromolecules essential to life
   examples:

   Leo Szilard

   United States physicist and molecular biologist who helped develop the first atom bomb and later opposed the use of all nuclear weapons (1898-1964)

   Tonegawa Susumu

   Japanese molecular biologist noted for his studies of how the immune system produces antibodies (born in 1939)

   type of:

   biologist, life scientist

   (biology) a scientist who studies living organisms