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 |
|---|---|
| Selman A. Waksman | microbiologist |
| Herman Boerhaave | botanist |
| James A. Allen | zoologist |
| Derek Ratcliffe | conservationist |
|
Belle
surface form:
Belle W. Baruch
|
conservationist |
| Belle W. Baruch | conservationist |
| Johann Michael Fehr | German naturalist |
| William Kent | conservationist |
| Johann Jakob Heckel | ichthyologist |
| William Augustus Hinton | bacteriologist |
|
Hornschuch
surface form:
Karl Georg Hornschuch
|
botanist |
| Friedrich Wilhelm Neger | botanist |
| Alice Y. Ting | chemical biologist |
| Edgar A. Anderson | botanist |
| John Roxborough Norman | ichthyologist |
| Albert Günther | zoologist |
| Andrey Andreevich Andriyashev | ichthyologist |
| Vladimir Vernadsky | biogeochemist |
| Auguste de Candolle | botanist |
| Marlin Perkins | zoologist |
| Olof Rudbeck the Younger | botanist |
| Allan Cunningham | botanist |
| Jim Fowler | zoologist |
|
Yersin
surface form:
Alexandre Yersin
|
bacteriologist |
|
Aubonne, Vaud, Switzerland
surface form:
Alexandre Yersin
|
bacteriologist |
|
Suoi Dau, near Nha Trang, Vietnam
surface form:
Alexandre Yersin
|
bacteriologist |
| Martin Chalfie | — |
| Richard Pyle | ichthyologist |
| Eduard Rüppell | zoologist |
| Charles Tate Regan | ichthyologist |
|
Portmann
surface form:
Adolphe Portmann
|
zoologist |
| Charles Waterton | conservationist |
| Patrick Geddes | — |
| David Starr Jordan | ichthyologist |
| Patrick Haggard | neuroscientist |
|
Perrottet
surface form:
George Samuel Perrottet
|
botanist |
| Anthony Hollander | — |
| William Tufts Brigham | botanist |
|
Jakob
surface form:
Johann Jakob Kaup
|
zoologist |
| Hideyo Noguchi | bacteriologist |
|
Grobben
surface form:
Karl Grobben
|
zoologist |
| Dick Smith | conservationist |
| Rita R. Colwell | microbiologist |
| Carl Linnaeus | botanist |
| Thomas Huston Macbride | botanist |
|
Raven
surface form:
Peter H. Raven
|
botanist |
| Ray F. Evert | botanist |
|
Jussieu family
surface form:
Antoine de Jussieu
|
botanist |
| Deborah Charlesworth | evolutionary biologist |
| Starker Leopold | wildlife biologist |