biochemist
- noun
- /ˌbaɪoʊˈkɛmɪst/
- "It's been lonely," agreed Thomas Eads, a biochemist at Purdue University.
No chemist had ever seen a carbon cobalt bond and they thought, in fact, biochemists were crazy that they even proposed such a structure.
- No chemist had ever seen a carbon cobalt bond and they thought, in fact, biochemists were crazy that they even proposed such a structure.
- And it's a, as a biochemist, I find that argument close to irrefutable and not very enjoyable.
- So biochemists as a rule, do not like asking why.
Examples
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In 1952, biochemist Arie J. Haagen-Smit discovered that the primary ingredient in Los Angeles smog was ground-level ozone.
Academic text (2005) -
The oldest, our beautiful daughter, Sarah, is, like her mother, a biochemist.
Fiction book (1998) -
You can make a good living as a biochemist.
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Prior to being a C.E.O. I was a biochemist.
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Listen, I'm just a biochemist.
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Not the opportunities a young, gifted, vibrant biochemist really deserves.
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My point is, I'm a biochemist and there's no life down here.
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Perhaps most touching is the nine-year-old daughter of a biochemist I met in Kiev.
Academic text (1993) -
She is a molecular biologist and biochemist who is going to talk about forensic DNA testing.
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My mom was a biochemist at a time when there weren't that many female scientists.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Biochemist joins bio- 'life', as in biology, and chemist, a person who studies chemicals. So a biochemist is a scientist who studies the chemical processes that happen in living things.