natural scientist

/ˌnætʃərəl ˌsaɪəntəst/

Other forms: natural scientists

Definitions of natural scientist

1. noun

   a biologist knowledgeable about natural history (especially botany and zoology)
   synonyms: naturalist

   examples:

   Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz

   United States naturalist (born in Switzerland) who studied fossil fish; recognized geological evidence that ice ages had occurred in North America (1807-1873)

   Roy Chapman Andrews

   United States naturalist who contributed to paleontology and geology (1884-1960)

   Georges Leopold Chretien Frederic Dagobert Cuvier

   French naturalist known as the father of comparative anatomy (1769-1832)

   Charles Robert Darwin

   English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection (1809-1882)

   Konrad von Gesner

   Swiss naturalist who was one of the founders of modern zoology (1516-1565)

   William Henry Hudson

   English naturalist (born in Argentina) (1841-1922)

   Baron Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt

   German naturalist who explored Central and South America and provided a comprehensive description of the physical universe (1769-1859)

   Jean Baptiste de Lamarck

   French naturalist who proposed that evolution resulted from the inheritance of acquired characteristics (1744-1829)

   John Muir

   United States naturalist (born in Scotland) who advocated the creation of national parks (1838-1914)

   Lorenz Okenfuss

   German naturalist whose speculations that plants and animals are made up of tiny living `infusoria' led to the cell theory (1779-1851)

   Georg Wilhelm Steller

   German naturalist (1709-1746)

   Jan Swammerdam

   Dutch naturalist and microscopist who proposed a classification of insects and who was among the first to recognize cells in animals and was the first to see red blood cells (1637-1680)

   Alfred Russel Wallace

   English naturalist who formulated a concept of evolution that resembled Charles Darwin's (1823-1913)

   type of:

   biologist, life scientist

   (biology) a scientist who studies living organisms