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Asked by anon-381660 on 24 Jan 2024. This question was also asked by keen1nee.
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Zoe Vance answered on 24 Jan 2024:
Yup! You can probably look most of us up! A lot of people will have scientific papers where they’ve written about their results, or the lab they work in or run will have a website.
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Pam Harrison answered on 24 Jan 2024:
yep, i’m definately a scientist, my official job title is senior scientist 🙂
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Jayne Roberts answered on 24 Jan 2024:
Absolutely! My job title is Environmental Safety Scientist and like many others I have published various pieces of research which are available on the internet somewhere!
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David Bremner answered on 25 Jan 2024:
It depends on your definition of a scientist. If a scientist is the person who comes up with the experiments or writes the articles and papers at the end then no. My job title is a research technician so i run equipment, do lab things, collect all the various samples, without which the experiments don’t run and the papers can’t be written, so i work in science but you decide if i’m a scientist or not!
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Alberto Granero answered on 25 Jan 2024:
I am! Although there are many different types of scientists. I investigated how materials transform and interact to make new ones. I designed new machines. I crunched lots and lots of data to understand if things were working well.
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Erin Pallott answered on 25 Jan 2024:
Yes! We’re all scientists! But we all work in very different jobs. On this website, you will learn lots of jobs that count as a “scientist”.
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Adam Washington answered on 25 Jan 2024:
We’re certainly all scientists in that we’re people working in areas of scientists. However, it’s also worth remembering that science is a process, not a job. Anyone that’s performing experiments to test their beliefs is being a scientist.
Anges Pockels, a german woman forbidden to enter university, built a device that eventually led to the 1932 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Erasto Mpemba was a high school student just trying to make ice cream. However, when he started testing whether the ice cream froze faster by starting with hot water, he discovered the Mpemba effect and inspired decades of materials research.
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Kirsty Ross answered on 26 Jan 2024:
Definitely. You don’t stop being a scientist when you move out of the lab. You can’t get rid of that way of thinking!
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Hannah Fawcett answered on 26 Jan 2024:
Scientist is a fairly broad term so there are lots of different types of scientists working in very different settings with a huge range of expertise. I am a scientist working as a psychologist in a university studying juror wellbeing, as is my friend who works in a traditional lab looking at cures for cancer. The thing we have in common is all using strict methodologies to improve our understanding on a particular topic.
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Nora Vyas answered on 26 Jan 2024:
Yes, I’m a chartered scientist, and like many experts, have published widely in a specialised field. You can look us up on google 🙂
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Georgia Lambert answered on 26 Jan 2024:
Yes!!!!!!!!!!! There are lots of versions of what a ‘scientist’ actually is and between us we represent a lot of the different types.
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Rachel Edwards answered on 26 Jan 2024:
Yes! My job title is “Reader in Physics”, which basically means almost-but-not-quite-a-professor. There are loads of science-related jobs and you’re just seeing a few examples here :).
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Lisa Humphreys answered on 27 Jan 2024:
Yes we are 🤓 we love science. I’ve written publications and reports to highlight our research outputs along with colleagues and collaborators. You’ll find the best scientific discoveries come from a great team working together to recognise and promote the value of the research study.
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Katherine Whyte answered on 29 Jan 2024:
Yes, we are! 😊 And there are lots of different jobs being a scientist. Check out all our profiles on here to see all the exciting things you can do as a scientist!
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Penny Timpert answered on 30 Jan 2024:
Yes! In terms of formal certificates, I’m a chemist, a polymer scientist and a computer scientist. I use lots of science in my everyday life as well as at work – cooking, driving, gardening, making pottery, playing games. All those activities rely on applying science, technology, engineering and maths.
Comments
Nikki A commented on :
My job is both science and engineering, as I work in spacecraft design. 🛰️ It’s important to use the laws of physics to design a great space mission, but also to use engineering to build it successfully. 🌎🌌🚀
Alastair HH commented on :
Not really, I work in IT but I enable scientists to do amazing things with the technology that I design. My job relies on skills from several areas including; Computing, Maths, Engineering, Physics and Chemistry.
Edd B commented on :
By qualifications and by job title!
Geofrey commented on :
“A scientist is someone who systematically gathers and uses research and evidence, to make hypotheses and test them, to gain and share understanding and knowledge. A scientist can be further defined by: how they go about this, for instance by use of statistics (statisticians) or data (data scientists).” – from the Science Council definition
So for me its not clear – I gather information and create hypothesis to develop a subsea oil and gas system , but not necessarily in the more literal definition of Science. I daily utilise areas of varied sciences and implement them in design proposals even to develop novel products and solutions but as for laboratory work thats not in my remit. As with so many areas of life a definition is often grey not black and white and well defined.
Bruno Silvester L commented on :
Yes. You can probably Google is all and it would show the discoveries we have made and how they have been recorded (published) in scientific journals
Samantha commented on :
Yes! I sometimes still find it hard to believe but yes, I “do” science as my job every day. Unlike some scientists, I don’t work in a lab, I don’t wear a white coat or do experiments, but I collect data, I do calculations and I think in a scientific way to solve problems.