biologist
C199
concept
A biologist is a scientist who studies living organisms and their interactions with each other and their environments to understand the principles governing life.
All labels observed (79)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| botanist | 272 |
| zoologist | 194 |
| biologist canonical | 146 |
| conservationist | 137 |
| neuroscientist | 99 |
| physiologist | 78 |
| taxonomist | 67 |
| evolutionary biologist | 63 |
| microbiologist | 50 |
| bacteriologist | 29 |
| marine biologist | 20 |
| ichthyologist | 16 |
| agricultural scientist | 14 |
| computational biologist | 13 |
| herpetologist | 13 |
| developmental biologist | 11 |
| structural biologist | 11 |
| embryologist | 10 |
| ethologist | 10 |
| parasitologist | 10 |
| microscopist | 9 |
| mammalogist | 8 |
| primatologist | 7 |
| wildlife biologist | 7 |
| astrobiologist | 5 |
| chemical biologist | 5 |
| plant biologist | 5 |
| bioinformatician | 4 |
| chronobiologist | 4 |
| histologist | 4 |
| German naturalist | 3 |
| behavioral biologist | 3 |
| field biologist | 3 |
| fisheries biologist | 3 |
| natural scientist | 3 |
| plant physiologist | 3 |
| animal behaviorist | 2 |
| conservation biologist | 2 |
| exobiologist | 2 |
| neurobiologist | 2 |
| protozoologist | 2 |
| stem cell biologist | 2 |
| systematist | 2 |
| systems biologist | 2 |
| American biologist | 1 |
| American zoologist | 1 |
| Austrian zoologist | 1 |
| Japanese biologist | 1 |
| Marine biologist | 1 |
| RNA biologist | 1 |
| animal behaviour scientist | 1 |
| bioacoustics researcher | 1 |
| biodiversity scientist | 1 |
| biogeochemist | 1 |
| biogerontologist | 1 |
| cognitive biologist | 1 |
| cytologist | 1 |
| evolutionary developmental biologist | 1 |
| experimental biologist | 1 |
| fisheries scientist | 1 |
| glycobiologist | 1 |
| heliobiologist | 1 |
| human exobiologist | 1 |
| kaiju biologist | 1 |
| mammalian systematist | 1 |
| molecular evolutionary biologist | 1 |
| nematologist | 1 |
| origin of life researcher | 1 |
| origin-of-life researcher | 1 |
| plant developmental biologist | 1 |
| plant scientist | 1 |
| population biologist | 1 |
| single-cell biologist | 1 |
| sociobiologist | 1 |
| subfield of behavioral ecology | 1 |
| біолог | 1 |
| еволюційний біолог | 1 |
| 生物学者 | 1 |
| 細胞生物学者 | 1 |
Description generation (CDg)
The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.
Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class. # Response Format Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: biologist
Generated description
A biologist is a scientist who studies living organisms and their interactions with each other and their environments to understand the principles governing life.
Instances (1,189)
| Instance | Via concept surface |
|---|---|
| Theodor Schwann | physiologist |
| Anne McLaren | developmental biologist |
| Robin Holliday | — |
| Allan C. Spradling | developmental biologist |
| Enrico Coen | plant developmental biologist |
| Michael Ashburner | — |
| Dame Ottoline Leyser | — |
| Ben Lehner | systems biologist |
| Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre | zoologist |
| Caspar Friedrich Wolff | physiologist |
| Nikolai Vavilov | botanist |
| Johann Wilhelm Meigen | taxonomist |
|
Colin Reese
surface form:
John Sulston
|
— |
|
Philipp
surface form:
Philipp Franz von Siebold
|
botanist |
| Terrence Sejnowski | neuroscientist |
| Peter Lawrence | developmental biologist |
| Dame Janet Thornton | computational biologist |
| Ewan Birney | computational biologist |
| Johann Friedrich Wolff | botanist |
|
British Museum herbarium (via Brown's work)
surface form:
Robert Brown
|
botanist |
| Albert Calmette | bacteriologist |
| Pierre Dansereau | botanist |
| Edwin James | botanist |
| Trofim Lysenko | — |
|
Dame Caroline Dean
surface form:
Caroline Dean
|
plant biologist |
|
Kummer
surface form:
Hans Kummer
|
primatologist |
| Camille Guérin | bacteriologist |
| David Baulcombe | plant scientist |
| H. Robert Horvitz | — |
|
Behring
surface form:
Emil Adolf von Behring
|
physiologist |
| Katherine Richardson | marine biologist |
| Shibasaburo Kitasato | bacteriologist |
| Franz Unger | botanist |
| Loki Schmidt | botanist |
| Fiona Marshall | neuroscientist |
|
Sir Peter Markham Scott
surface form:
Peter Markham Scott
|
conservationist |
|
Van Tieghem
surface form:
Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem
|
botanist |
| Geert W. Schmid-Schönbein | physiologist |
| Christopher Tate | structural biologist |
| Emil C. Gotschlich | microbiologist |
|
Fleck
surface form:
Ludwik Fleck
|
microbiologist |
| Samuel Kaplan | microbiologist |
| Richard Tsien | neuroscientist |
| He Lin (biologist) | — |
|
Muir family
surface form:
John Muir
|
conservationist |
| Ernest E. Williams | zoologist |
| Philip Sabes | neuroscientist |
| Florentino Ameghino | zoologist |
|
Daubeny
surface form:
Charles Daubeny
|
botanist |
| Sir George Watt | botanist |