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, careers based upon scientific research disciplines and explorers.

Applied Science

• Educational technologist ^[1]
• Engineer
• Engineering technician
• Engineering technologist

Formal Science

• Computational scientist
• Mathematician ^[2] – A person with an extensive knowledge of mathematics, a field that has been informally defined as being concerned with numbers, data, collection, quantity, structure, space and calculus.

Statistics

• Demographic marketer
• Statistician

General Scientific occupations

• Gentleman scientist – A financially independent scientist who pursues scientific study as a hobby^[3]
• Government scientist
• Healthcare science
• Hiwi – A German abbreviation for "assistant scientist"
• Inventor
• School science technician
• Science attaché ^[4] – A member of a diplomatic mission (usually an embassy) that focuses on scientific and technical matters
• Scientist ^[5]
• Research fellow ^[6]
• Psychologist
• Forensic Scientist^[7]

Life Science

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

• Biologist
• Biomedical scientist ^[8]
• Medical laboratory scientist
• Botanist
• Microbiologist
• Neuroscientist
• Herpetologist
• Zoologist

Natural Science

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

• Astronaut
• Astronomer
• Biochemist
• Ecologist ^[9]
• Naturalist
• Oceanographer
• Paleontologist
• Archaeologist
• Pathologist
• Geographer

Physical Science

• Physicist ^[10]
• Chemist

Earth Science

• Geographer
• Geologist
• Geoprofessions
• Petroleum geologist

Social science

• Urban planner

See also

• Lists of occupations

References

1. Seels, B. B., & Richey, R. C. (1994). Instructional technology:The definition and domains of the field. Washington, DC:AECT.
2. "Mathematicians". Occupational Outlook Handbook, U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. March 29, 2012. Retrieved April 5, 2012. External link in |publisher= (help)
3. J.C. Segen (1992). Dictionary of modern medicine. p.246. ISBN 1850703213
4. Robert L. Loftness, Why Science Attachés?, 80 The Scientific Monthly 124 (1955).
5. 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.
6. "Research fellow in science"
7. "forensic scientist"
8. Paul D. Ellner (2006). The Biomedical Scientist as Expert Witness. ASM Press. ISBN 1555813453.
9. Weaver, Nancy (2002). "Ecologist". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved December 10, 2011. External link in |publisher= (help)
10. 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.