Is Scientist a Real Word?

How The Word 'Scientist' Came To Be In 1834, Cambridge University historian and philosopher of science William Whewell coined the term "scientist" to replace such terms as "cultivators of science." Historian Howard Markel discusses how "scientist" came to be, and lists some possibilities that didn't make the cut.

How was the word scientist coined?

The English academic William Whewell first put the word “scientist” into print in 1834 in a review of Mary Somerville's On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences. Whewell's review argued that science was becoming fragmented, that chemists and mathematicians and physicists had less and less to do with one another.

Who was the first person called a scientist?

Aristotle is considered by many to be the first scientist, although the term postdates him by more than two millennia. In Greece in the fourth century BC, he pioneered the techniques of logic, observation, inquiry and demonstration.