noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
mad scientist
▪ the cartoon figure of the mad scientist
rocket scientist
▪ It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to work out that doubling productivity will improve profits.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
american
▪ Cheaper solar cell AMERICAN scientists have doubled the efficiency of liquid-junction solar cells.
chief
▪ The resignation of the organisation's chief scientist last week after four months in the post has fuelled these fears.
▪ One will be at the Starlab in Brussels, where De Garis became chief scientist late last month.
▪ Central to the department's new orientation is the role of Oscar Roith, the DoI's chief engineer and scientist.
forensic
▪ Some of the most famous forensic scientists have started that way, he said.
▪ I thought forensic scientists were particularly at risk.
▪ Detailed case studies, which will involve reading original transcripts, will be followed up by interviews of forensic scientists.
▪ Traditionally forensic scientists have relied on dental records and presumptive identifications by relatives.
▪ Sections of the barrier were brought to the inquest and forensic scientist David Price said it hadn't been welded together properly.
▪ Anyway, the forensic scientists will be able to confirm she had some one in with her.
▪ Police forces around the country have sought advice from forensic scientists in their attempts to find those responsible for such attacks.
▪ These chapters will be particularly interesting to the practising as well as to the trainee forensic scientist.
great
▪ The craters are named after great scientists of the past: Tycho and Copernicus.
▪ All great scientists seem remote, extra human even.
▪ Every great inventor or scientist has had to unlearn conventional wisdom in order to proceed with his work.
▪ And then a great scientist, Rassilon, led the people into the scientific age.
▪ The greatest scientists have mixed insight amounting to genius with the most absurd follies at other times.
▪ This approach also gives us fascinating glimpses of the fallibility of great scientists.
▪ But in fact we know that many great scientists cheated to generate the data that validated their ideas.
mad
▪ The sooner he could phone the mad scientist, and take them to the poly, the better.
▪ Scenes of dancing cups and mad-scientist lab equipment ultimately create order out of disorder.
▪ Well he wasn't going hedgehog-spotting, not till he'd fixed up a deal with the mad scientist.
▪ Well, Holmes, he looks just like the popular caricature of a mad scientist.
▪ This distrust is evident in the cartoon figure of the mad scientist working in his laboratory to produce a Frankenstein.
▪ Castle, this 1959 thriller casts Price as a mad scientist who discovers the biological cause of fear in human beings.
▪ There was a fourth, but it was too squashed to be much good to the mad scientist.
natural
▪ But they admit individual agents only on the terms on which a natural scientist admits individual and particular objects.
▪ So where are the cheers from the natural scientists?
▪ When a natural scientist proposes to test the boiling point of water, there are few, if any semantic problems involved.
▪ But it is a hunch that has generated a degree of passion even among natural scientists.
▪ The job of the natural scientist is to observe, measure, and then explain that reaction.
▪ Natural science managers usually start as a chemist, physicist, biologist, or other natural scientist.
▪ Many men, natural scientists included, had been lost in the wastes.
▪ This is because the experiment is most suited to the assumptions that natural scientists have traditionally made about what they are studying.
nuclear
▪ Subsequent leaders were also devoted to giving nuclear scientists and designers everything they wanted.
▪ Without realising it, your nuclear scientists are black alchemists.
▪ I discussed the question of the nuclear scientists with President Yeltsin last Thursday.
▪ He has put forward some interesting ideas for international centres to redeploy nuclear scientists on civilian work.
other
▪ A researcher reports a particular result, and to verify it other scientists repeat the same experiment in their own labs.
▪ Hans Kuypers thrived on communication with other scientists.
▪ For while the Berkeley geomagnetists walked the road to Jaramillo other scientists had travelled there on the power of imagination.
▪ Publication of the report Publication day is when the work becomes available to other social scientists.
▪ The professor helped me very much, and other important scientists who were his friends helped me, too.
▪ On his visit to Madeira he and other scientists collected plants and investigated the lifestyles of the inhabitants.
political
▪ The proposal for the Assembly came originally from Chaianan Samudavanij, a well known political scientist.
▪ What might prevent political scientists from answering this question adequately? 4.
▪ Sociologists and political scientists have devoted much time to developing a variety of theories on the determination of public sector expenditure.
▪ By knowing the preferences and pay-off structures, the political scientist can examine all possible combinations of choices by the two players.
▪ Clark, a former political scientist widely regarded as cool and aloof, seemed transformed by power.
▪ Thus, political scientists have devised different ways of counting the number of political parties.
▪ Whether a country has a codified constitution is hardly something of great importance to the political scientist.
senior
▪ The Corporation's most senior scientists.
▪ Colborn is a senior scientist at the World Wildlife Fund.
▪ Lorrimer's a senior scientist, isn't he?
social
▪ There is nothing wrong with being interested in, say, television but that does not make them research social scientists.
▪ Even now, most anthropologists and social scientists are firmly committed to the view that evolution has nothing to tell them.
▪ The social scientist tends to study events soas to draw conclusions of a more general and rather static kind.
▪ He makes much of contacts with social scientists in allied fields.
▪ Thirdly, the project will aim to collaborate with individual social scientists in the analysis of their data sets.
▪ Accordingly, his concepts helped all social scientists in their perception of reality.
▪ First, there have been attempts by social scientists to communicate with biologists.
▪ But demographers and social scientists also use more objective measures.
young
▪ Applications for younger scientists will be given priority, as will projects in the humanities.
▪ He had looked forward to a day in the sun, the simple admiration of colleagues, young scientists.
▪ I have in the studio the world's youngest scientist - at least I reckon she must be.
▪ The purpose of the meeting was to bring together young scientists, businessmen and journal publishers.
▪ For this reason, campaigners like Rifkin are necessary, and younger scientists especially have a reluctant admiration for him.
▪ This particularly affects the young scientists, who fail to acquire necessary training in techniques.
▪ Toby Gledhill was one of Alex's most brilliant young scientists.
▪ The young research scientist with whom I chatted in a Bonn café was not worried about nationalism.
■ NOUN
computer
▪ However, computer scientists have developed programs which produce numbers that are apparently random.
▪ They are problem solvers before they are computer scientists or animators.
▪ The cartoons are not just for computer scientists, though perhaps the expert will see the irony more clearly.
▪ Chess posed a formidable challenge for computer scientists.
▪ I talk often to anthropologists and linguists and computer scientists about our overlapping interests.
▪ The more computer scientists thought about distributing problems into a hive mind, the more reasonable it seemed.
▪ Engelbart demonstrated his discoveries in the fall of 1968 at a national meeting of computer scientists.
▪ Bob Taylor knew the most gifted computer scientists of his day be-cause he had evaluated their work for federal funding.
research
▪ She is a highly qualified research scientist whose contract, funded by the pharmaceutical industry, has come to an end.
▪ It was something else to tell that to a highly prized research scientist, engineer, or computer programmer.
▪ Graduates often enter other professions such as those of the actuary, accountant, and operational research scientist.
▪ The young research scientist with whom I chatted in a Bonn café was not worried about nationalism.
▪ He sounds and feels more like a research scientist, and indeed, often refers to golf as a neurological exercise.
▪ On arrival at the laboratory, they met a second volunteer and the research scientist.
rocket
▪ A letter signed by former cosmonauts and rocket scientists and 16,000 Muscovites has been handed to Putin.
▪ They wheeled in the rocket scientists, who started to carve up mortgage securities into itty-bitty pieces.
▪ Well, Andrew Dequasie was a rocket scientist of a sort.
■ VERB
allow
▪ Each of these improvements has allowed scientists to tackle problems that were ten times as large or ten times as difficult.
▪ The changing ratio serves as a nuclear clock that allows scientists to date the samples.
▪ The only question is apparently whether we should allow or encourage scientists to bring such clones to term.
▪ All this data combined will allow scientists to determine Eros's density, and any density variations deep inside the asteroid.
▪ This allowed the scientists to image the magnetite chains without destroying them.
▪ Contextual description allows political scientists to know what other countries are like.
▪ Simulation techniques have been developed to allow scientists and planners to build working models of the systems which they are studying.
▪ Precautions for experimental animals will inevitably be less stringent to allow access to scientists and their technicians.
develop
▪ This fact has emerged during a pilot test of a new computer program developed by scientists for the Department of Transport.
▪ They just wipe it clean, leaving a natural skim that works better than non-stick surfaces developed by space-age scientists.
▪ Simulation techniques have been developed to allow scientists and planners to build working models of the systems which they are studying.
lead
▪ Many leading scientists refuse to acknowledge either the extent or the significance of this phenomenon of co-option.
▪ The failure to find a vaccine for leprosy led scientists early on to conclude that the disease was hopeless.
work
▪ Time allowed 05:14 Read in studio Aids setback ... the drug which scientists say doesn't work.
▪ Those scientists who worked in museums and dissecting rooms could not exploit insights gained from field studies in different natural environments.
▪ Bridges is a scientist working on dirt samples brought back from a Mars expedition.
▪ Ideal One of its scientists working on the suture project discovered a special type of collagen which made an ideal sausage casing.
▪ Spectators will also be able to talk to the scientists working beneath the waves.
▪ Its wealth depended on the scientists who worked in a large lab behind the administrative block.
▪ Under the contract, Auspace will provide specialist space scientists to work on the instrument package with the team at Mount Stromlo.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
it doesn't take a rocket scientist (to do sth)
▪ It doesn't exactly take a rocket scientist to realize that the chain of events was no coincidence.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ On four continents scientists have consumed the equivalent of billions of dollars trying to capture the dream.
▪ Some social scientists have conceptualised these workers in terms of a reserve army of labour.
▪ The distinguished physicist, Sir Hermann Bondi, once described the sort of people who become scientists.
▪ The greatest scientists have mixed insight amounting to genius with the most absurd follies at other times.
▪ The little wanderer called Sojourner ran into a big Mars rock Thursday and ended up with one wheel high, scientists reported.
▪ The splashing theory accounts for a number of facts scientists have learned about the moon.
▪ They're all scientists really, plus businessmen.
▪ They are problem solvers before they are computer scientists or animators.