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 |
|---|---|
| Leonhart Fuchs | botanist |
| David Lyall | botanist |
| Anders Sandberg | neuroscientist |
| Gero Miesenböck | neuroscientist |
| Sarah Teichmann | computational biologist |
| Charles Chamberland | microbiologist |
| Olof Celsius the Elder | botanist |
| John Edwards Holbrook | zoologist |
| Jacques Gauthier | evolutionary biologist |
| Ernst Hartert | taxonomist |
|
Cope
surface form:
Edward Drinker Cope
|
zoologist |
| Madan Babu | computational biologist |
| David Douglas | botanist |
| John Treadwell Nichols | ichthyologist |
| Johann Friedrich von Brandt | zoologist |
| Douglas Warrick | — |
| Theodor Dorsten | botanist |
| Donald E. Brownlee | astrobiologist |
| Shigetada Nakanishi | neuroscientist |
| Anindya Sinha | primatologist |
| Wilhelm Peters | zoologist |
| Raffaele Ciferri | botanist |
|
Gmelin
surface form:
Johann Friedrich Gmelin
|
German naturalist |
|
J.F.Gmel.
surface form:
Johann Friedrich Gmelin
|
botanist |
| Kelly Sorenson | wildlife biologist |
| Steven Vogel | — |
| William Robert Ogilvie-Grant | taxonomist |
| Jean Delacour | taxonomist |
| Tim Gardner | neuroscientist |
| Philipp Friedrich Gmelin | botanist |
| Thomas D. Brock | microbiologist |
| John Cassin | taxonomist |
| Charles Joseph Chamberlain | botanist |
| John Sturgeon | conservationist |
| George Henry Falkiner Nuttall | bacteriologist |
| Georges J. F. Köhler | — |
| James P. Taylor | conservationist |
| William C. Campbell | parasitologist |
| Satoshi Ōmura | microbiologist |
|
Houssay
surface form:
Bernardo Houssay
|
physiologist |
|
National Academy of Medicine of Argentina
surface form:
Bernardo Houssay
|
physiologist |
| Tyler Volk | — |
| Leonard Blomefield | zoologist |
| Jean Victoire Audouin | zoologist |
| Alexander Koenig | zoologist |
| Hugo de Vries | botanist |
| Carl Correns | botanist |
| Alexander Oparin | origin of life researcher |
| Lewis Wolpert | developmental biologist |
| Frank Zindler | — |