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Experimenter

Experimenter \Ex*per"i*men`ter\, n. One who makes experiments; one skilled in experiments. -- Faraday.

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experimenter

n. A person who experiments.

WordNet
experimenter
  1. n. a research worker who conducts experiments

  2. a person who enjoys testing innovative ideas; "she was an experimenter in new forms of poetry"

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Experimenter

Experimenter can mean:

  • An experimentalist, a researcher whose primary focus is on experiments
  • Experimenter (film), a 2015 film about Stanley Milgram's infamous experiments on the response to authority
  • Experimenter Publishing, an American media company founded by Hugo Gernsback
Experimenter (film)

Experimenter is a 2015 American biographical drama film written and directed by Michael Almereyda, based on the 1961 Milgram experiment. The film stars Peter Sarsgaard, Taryn Manning, Kellan Lutz, Winona Ryder, Anton Yelchin, John Leguizamo, Lori Singer, Dennis Haysbert, Anthony Edwards, and Jim Gaffigan. The film was released on October 16, 2015, by Magnolia Pictures.

Usage examples of "experimenter".

If the problem of vivisection is ever settled, it will be due, not to the influence of those who advocate unquestioning faith in the humaneness of the average experimenter, who decline inquiry, and who rest satisfied with their ignorance, but rather to those who, having investigated the question for themselves, have given all their influence for some measure of reform.

Surely the experimenters should ask no clearer exculpation from all blame, so far as relates to permissible experimentation on man.

Every such consent, to be valid, must be in writing and must be preceded by a full and correct written statement setting forth to the person whose consent is sought whatever painful, injurious or dangerous consequences are obviously liable to result from the proposed experimentation, and such statement shall be signed both by the experimenter and the person to be experimented upon.

He became an experimenter, and passed whole days in practising vivisections, TAKING PLEASURE IN THE CRIES, THE BLOOD, AND THE TORTURES OF THE POOR ANIMALS.

The limit of such physiological experiment, in its utmost latitude, should be to establish truth in the hands of a skilful experimenter, and not to demonstrate it to ignorant classes and encourage them to repeat it.

The experimenter might try to believe that the pain was slight, but he never disputed its existence.

The only reply that the experimenter could give was a reiteration of faith in the working of the apparatus.

On this point the admissions of the experimenter seem especially significant.

In language which seemed to have no element of ambiguity, the experimenter apparently affirmed the entire absence of sensation on the part of the dogs which he and his assistants subjected to operations of various kinds and of an extreme character.

In 1903 there was published in America an account of a large number of vivisections involving blood-pressure which a well-known experimenter had made, either personally or by his assistants.

Yet to the eye of the experimenter would there not be something to tell him whether or not the animal was feeling pain?

In his introduction the experimenter seems to assert in the most distinct and emphatic way the complete unconsciousness of each victim.

Suppose Society to grant the privacy for a time, asking in return from every registered laboratory and from every experimenter, the completest reports of all experiments upon animals.

Such reports should be attested under oath by each individual experimenter, exactly as the officers of a bank are required by law to make reports regarding its financial standing.

Here would be the wished-for opportunity to demonstrate the vast importance of the problems pursued, and the wonderful results attained compared with the small cost of animal life, the humane and ever-present solicitude of the experimenter, the immunity from suffering.