The Collaborative International Dictionary
Microscopist \Mi*cros"co*pist\ (?; 277), n. One skilled in, or given to, microscopy.
Wiktionary
n. An expert at microscopy
WordNet
n. a scientist who specializes in research with the use of microscopes
Usage examples of "microscopist".
This idea of the cytoblastema was early thrown into suspicion, and almost at the time of the announcement of the cell doctrine certain microscopists made the claim that these cells did not come from any structureless medium, but by division from other cells like themselves.
This network has the power of absorbing certain kinds of stains very actively, and is consequently deeply stained when treated as the microscopist commonly prepares his specimens.
To the chemist and the microscopist the living body presents the same difficulties, arising from the fact that everything is in perpetual change in the organism.
Pasteur was a microscopist who could see answers only in the microscopic world and that he knew nothing about medicine itself.
As if a microscopist forgot to allow for relative size and saw an amoeba as big as an elephant.
To examine the specimen, he sliced the stack into thin layers, like a microscopist preparing slides of an exotic organism, and then reconstructed it slice by slice on sheets of nonreflecting glass.
Diamond Lens, in which a young microscopist falls in love with a maiden of in infinitesimal world which he has discovered in a drop of water.
Long before this, however, many microscopists had seen that the bodies of plants are made up of elementary units.
In the early part of the century observations upon various kinds of animals and plant tissues multiplied, and many microscopists independently announced the discovery of similar small corpuscular bodies.
But modern opticians improved their microscopes, and microscopists greatly improved their methods.
Even by the early microscopists the nucleus was recognized, and during the first few years of the cell doctrine it was frequently looked upon as the most active part of the cell and as especially connected with its reproduction.
Many cells were found to have nucleii while others did not show their presence, and microscopists therefore believed that the presence of a nucleus was not necessary to constitute a cell.
As the method of studying cells improved microscopists learned better methods of discerning the presence of the nucleus, and as it was done little by little they began to find the presence of nucleii in cells in which they had hitherto not been seen.
As microscopists now studied one after another of these animals and plants whose cells had been said to contain no nucleus, they began to find nucleii in them, until the conclusion was finally reached that a nucleus is a fundamental part of all active cells.
The importance of the nucleus became more and more forcibly impressed upon microscopists, and this body came after a little into such prominence as to hide from view the more familiar protoplasm.