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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
biochemist
noun
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▪ A biochemist colleague has kindly provided me with a bottle of hydrogen peroxide, and enough hydroquinone for 50 bombardier beetles.
▪ Lucid, a 53-year-old biochemist, plans a 143-day stay aboard Mir as a guest researcher.
▪ Nor, had he sought to recruit a biochemist, was there any laboratory space available for his work.
▪ Research studentships are available for biochemical, chemical and electronic engineers and for biochemists, microbiologists and others with appropriates training.
▪ Some biochemists have built up quite elaborate blueprints for forms of life utterly different from our own.
▪ Stoichiometric procedures also help the biochemist to follow the metabolic processes that take place in organisms.
▪ The interest of psychiatrists was aroused, and so was that of biochemists.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
biochemist

also bio-chemist, 1897; see bio- + chemist.

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biochemist

n. A chemist whose speciality is biochemistry

WordNet
biochemist

n. someone with special training in biochemistry

Wikipedia
Biochemist

Biochemists are scientists that are trained in biochemistry.

Usage examples of "biochemist".

I recently contacted a Japanese biochemist, asking him to supply me with a small sample of a substance to test for possible amnestic effect in the chicks.

It will mean discarding many shibboleths, the naive molecular reductionism of the biochemists, the and behaviourism of the psychologists, but we can see the goal clearly.

Belgian biochemist Christian de Duve, and they vary enormously in size and shape, from nerve cells whose filaments can stretch to several feet to tiny, disc-shaped red blood cells to the rod-shaped photocells that help to give us vision.

But the biochemists, as ingenious in their way as the gengineers, had promptly devised an antidote for the euphoric in the nectar.

With a gourdful to analyze, the biochemists there should be able to synthesize it.

He was one of a group of biochemists and genetics people who founded Helical Systems.

How it had occurred, down on the nucleoprotein level, I was not that much of a biochemist to understand.

The American biochemist Vincent du Vigneaud and his associates obtained two pure substances from the posterior pituitary extracts, of which one possessed the blood-pressure-raising effect and was named vasopressin and the other possessed the uterus-stimulating effect and was named oxytocin.

NDCC, reviewing the complex symbols and biochemical models, sometimes with the help of others from serologists to top biochemists, going over and over those complex and cryptic mathematical models that must mean something, something dark and sinister, the world was changing outside her guarded doors.

A-complex but at a specially constructed terminal inside NDCC, reviewing the complex symbols and biochemical models, sometimes with the help of others from serologists to top biochemists, going over and over those complex and cryptic mathematical models that must mean something, something dark and sinister, the world was changing outside her guarded doors.

If chick memory exists, they claim, either it is a global and unanalysable property of the chick brain as a system or, if it is a molecular property, then the molecular processes involved are likely to be small and subtle, too refined for the coarse methods of the biochemist.

Matthew Jarpe has had such diverse jobs as biology undergrad student, biochemistry grad student, biochemistry post-doc, and biochemist.

Many years previously, biochemists had shown that if you took a piece of animal tissue, say from the liver, cut very thin slices from it with a razor blade and immersed them in a blood-warm bath containing a proper mix of salts and glucose, the slices would go on behaving biochemically much as if they were still in the living body from which they had been removed.

Some excellent minds were put on this, both cybernetics experts and biologists, biophysicists and biochemists, medical researchers, you name it.

Brain language has many dialects, spoken by many different sorts of biologists - physiologists, biochemists, anatomists - and handles its claims to objectivity with confidence.