List of scientific occupations

An engineering technician explains instrument readings.

This is a list of science and science-related occupations, which include various scientific occupations and careers based upon scientific research disciplines and explorers.

A medical laboratory scientist at the National Institutes of Health preparing DNA samples

Life science

• Biologist
• Biomedical scientist ^[1]
• Botanist
• Clinical pharmaceutical scientist
• Herpetologist
• Medical laboratory scientist
• Microbiologist
• Neuroscientist
• Physician
• Veterinarian
• Zoologist

Applied science

• Aeronautical engineer
• Biomedical engineer
• Chemical engineer
• Civil engineer
• Computer engineer
• Educational technologist ^[2]
• Electrical engineer
• Engineering technician
• Engineering technologist
• Mechanical engineer
• Petrochemical engineer

Formal science

• Computational scientist
• Mathematician ^[3]  – A person with an extensive knowledge of mathematics, a field informally defined as being concerned with numbers, data, collection, quantity, structure, space and calculus.

Statistics

• Actuary
• Demographic marketer
• Statistician

General scientific occupations

• Forensic scientist ^[4]
• Gentleman scientist  – A financially independent scientist who pursues scientific study as a hobby ^[5]
• Government scientist
• Healthcare science
• Hiwi  – A German abbreviation for "assistant scientist"
• Inventor
• Psychologist
• Research fellow
• School science technician
• Science attaché ^[6]  – A member of a diplomatic mission (usually an embassy) that focuses on scientific and technical matters
• Scientist ^[7]

Natural science

Astronaut Bruce McCandless II using Manned Maneuvering Unit outside the United States Space Shuttle Challenger in 1984

• Archaeologist
• Astronaut
• Astronomer
• Biochemist
• Biologist
• Chemist
• Ecologist ^[8]
• Forester
• Geographer
• Naturalist
• Oceanographer
• Paleontologist
• Pathologist

Physical science

• Chemist
• Physicist ^[9]

Earth science

• Geographer
• Geologist
• Geoprofessions
• Petroleum geologist

Social science

• Anthropologist
• Economist
• Historian
• Linguist
• Political scientist
• Sociologist
• Urban planner

See also

• Science portal

• Lists of occupations

References

1. Paul D. Ellner (2006). The Biomedical Scientist as Expert Witness. ASM Press. ISBN   1555813453.
2. Seels, B. B., & Richey, R. C. (1994). Instructional technology:The definition and domains of the field. Washington, DC:AECT.
3. "Mathematicians". Occupational Outlook Handbook, U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. March 29, 2012. Retrieved April 5, 2012.
4. forensic scientist
5. J.C. Segen (1992). Dictionary of modern medicine. p.246. ISBN   1850703213
6. Robert L. Loftness, Why Science Attachés?, 80 The Scientific Monthly 124 (1955).
7. Isaac Newton (1687, 1713, 1726). "[4] Rules for the study of natural philosophy", Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica , Third edition. The General Scholium containing the 4 rules follows Book 3, The System of the World. Reprinted on pages 794-796 of I. Bernard Cohen and Anne Whitman's 1999 translation, University of California Press ISBN   0-520-08817-4, 974 pages.
8. Weaver, Nancy (2002). "Ecologist". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved December 10, 2011.
9. Kirby, Kate; Czujko, Roman; Mulvey, Patrick (2001). "The Physics Job Market: From Bear to Bull in a Decade". Physics Today. 54 (4): 36. Bibcode:2001PhT....54d..36K. doi:10.1063/1.1372112.