WordNet
n. a scientist who devotes himself to doing research [syn: researcher, investigator]
Usage examples of "research worker".
I had been experimenting with the storage and later reconstitution of DNA segments in the chromosomal introns of an old box tortoise that I had inherited from a previous research worker.
Consequently, even for the research worker it is only an organized bundle of many millions of nerve cells which have a metabolism and send out currents.
I am only a junior free-lance research worker for one of the Pursuivants.
But on the threshold of the twenty-first century the research worker should be prepared for fantastic realities.
They can go into more detail than a human research worker ever could.
As yet, indeed, Georges had done little more than any research worker might have in similar circumstances.
Rather like being a research worker on an anthropological field assignment.
In the opinion of our highest scholars and savants he is a scientific research worker and collector probably unique in the history of the world.