Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who studies or is skilled in microbiology; one versed in the knowledge of minute organisms, as microbes.
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- noun A
scientist whose speciality ismicrobiology .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a specialist in microbiology
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Examples
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One of the most important issues on that subject to me as a microbiologist is the danger of overusing antibiotics.
Rep. Louise Slaughter: Reforming Our Food Production Can Start With Curbing Antibiotic Use 2009
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One of the most important issues on that subject to me as a microbiologist is the danger of overusing antibiotics.
Rep. Louise Slaughter: Reforming Our Food Production Can Start With Curbing Antibiotic Use 2009
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Some, such as microbiologist Carl Woese of the University of Illinois, argue that life on earth is descended "not from one, but from three distinctly different cell types" ( "On the evolution of cells,"
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Some, such as microbiologist Carl Woese of the University of Illinois, argue that life on earth is descended "not from one, but from three distinctly different cell types" ( "On the evolution of cells,"
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Some, such as microbiologist Carl Woese of the University of Illinois, argue that life on earth is descended "not from one, but from three distinctly different cell types" ( "On the evolution of cells,"
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Finally, five years later—after the FBI had given up on its flimsy Hatfill suspicions—the investigation started to focus on Bruce Ivins, a microbiologist at the same institute.
When Death Came Hand-Delivered Edward Jay Epstein 2011
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Music made me lose my taste for the robber baron self and for some other identities that I'd tried on, too: to be an archeologist like the great Schliemann who'd dug out Troy with his bare hands, cheered on by his Greek wife; to be a microbiologist like Paul Ehrlich, who'd cured syphilis that had killed or deformed so many weak-willed great minds.
Moondog Marcus Speh 2011
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"Most of the public is not accustomed to evaluating early stage science, and they don't understand how vague things are at this point," Alan Dove, a science writer who trained as a microbiologist at Columbia University, commented during a podcast, "This Week in Virology," that discussed XMRV.
Amid War on a Mystery Disease, Patients Clash With Scientists Amy Dockser Marcus 2011
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"They don't exist," says microbiologist Ronald Atlas of the University of Louisville.
Bioremediation: a solution for quickly cleaning environmental messes? 2010
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One early suspect was microbiologist Perry Mikesell, who had worked in 1999 at Battelle.
When Death Came Hand-Delivered Edward Jay Epstein 2011
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