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A person's profession is the career or job which they perform for most of their working life, or for which they are best known. It is broader-ranging than a single instance of employment; one person might be a Software Engineer by profession...
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Job title | Alfred Kastler | Scientist |
A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning all length scales: from sub-atomic particles of which all ordinary matter is made (particle physics...
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| Astronomer |
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Hervé Faye |
Historically, astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky, while astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena and the differences between them using physical laws. Today, that distinction has...
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| Max Tegmark | |||||
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| Astrophysicist | Stephen Thorsett | Astronomer | |||
| Rachel Dewey | Physicist | ||||
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| Biologist | Jacques Loeb | Scientist |
A biologist is a scientist devoted to and producing results in biology through the study of organism or other living systems.Typically biologists study organisms and their relationship to their environment. Biologists involved in basic research...
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| Microbiologist |
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Nick Perumov | Biologist |
A microbiologist is a scientist who works in the field of microbiology. Most have a university degree in the subject.
Specialists in the broad field of microbiology include:
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| Molecular Biologist | Jacques Monod | Biologist | |||
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| Evolutionary Biologist | Richard Dawkins | Biologist | |||
| Alfred Russel Wallace | |||||
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| Scientist |
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Job title | Richard Smalley |
A scientist, in the broadest sense, refers to any person that engages in a systematic activity to acquire knowledge or an individual that engages in such practices and tradition that are linked to schools of thought or philosophy. In a more...
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| Character Occupation | Jerome Apt | ||||
| Fictional job title | Gregory T. Linteris | ||||
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| Chemist |
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Film character | Albin Haller | Scientist |
A chemist is a scientist trained in the science of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its small-scale properties such as density and acidity instead of large-scale properties like size and shape. Chemists carefully describe the...
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| Fictional Character | Alexandre Brongniart | ||||
| Job title | Richard Smalley | ||||
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| Politician | Character Occupation | Arnold Schwarzenegger |
A politician (from Greek "polis") is an individual who is involved in influencing public decision making through the influence of politics or a person who influences the way a society is governed through an understanding of political power and group...
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| Type/domain equivalent topic | Barack Obama | ||||
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| Businessperson | Character Occupation | Daisuke Enomoto |
A businessperson (also businessman or businesswoman) is someone who is employed at usually a profit-oriented enterprise, or more specifically, someone who is involved in the management (at any level) of a company. The term businessperson almost...
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| Country | Anousheh Ansari | ||||
| Dated location | Gary Condit | ||||
| Location | Scott L. Klug | ||||
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| Physician |
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Character Occupation | Ron Paul | Healthcare professional |
A physician, medical practitioner or medical doctor is a person who holds a medical degree, practices medicine, and is concerned with maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease and injury. This is...
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| Art Subject | Alfred Moquin-Tandon | ||||
| Quotation Subject | Karl Oskar Medin | ||||
| Fictional job title | Yvonne Cagle | ||||
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| Pharmacist | George Ryan |
Pharmacists are health profession who practice the art and science of pharmacy. In their traditional role, pharmacists typically take a request for medicine from a prescribing health care provider in the form of a medical prescription and dispense...
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| Singer |
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Character Occupation | Andy Lau | Musician |
A singer is a person who uses his or her voice to produce music. Often the singer is accompanied by musicians and instruments. While many people sing for pleasure, vocal skill is usually a combination of innate talent and professional training. ...
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| Musical Performance Role | Jennifer Lopez | ||||
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| Musician | Job title | Brian Eno |
A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:
A musician can be self-taught, or learned by formal education in a conservatory or by a private instructor or a guru.
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| Personal appearance role | Sting | ||||
| Art Subject | Rory Gallagher | ||||
| Character Occupation | Joni Mitchell | ||||
| Ontology Class | Richard Müller | ||||
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| Athlete |
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Michael J. Bloomfield |
A sportsperson (British and American English) or athlete (principally American English) is any person who participates regularly in a sport.
Athletes can be professional (paid) or amateur (unpaid). A superior athlete is one who has above average...
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| Roger Federer | |||||
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| Carpenter |
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Job title | Jesus |
A carpenter (builder) is a skilled craftsman who performs carpentry - a wide range of woodworking that includes constructing buildings, furniture, and other objects out of wood. The work generally involves significant manual labor and work outdoors,...
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| Architect |
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Job title | Victor Horta |
An architect is a licensed individual who leads a design team in the planning and design of buildings and participates in oversight of building construction. The word "architect" comes from Latin architectus, which in turn derives from Greek...
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| Character Occupation | Alvar Aalto | ||||
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| Coroner |
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Joshua Perper |
A coroner is an official responsible for investigating deaths, particularly those happening under unusual circumstances, and determining the cause of death. The additional roles and qualifications or the coroner vary significantly not only by...
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| Truck driver |
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Character Occupation | Bradley John Murdoch |
A truck driver (Commonly called a trucker, driver or teamster in the United States and Canada, a truckie or ute driver in Australia and New Zealand and a lorry driver or driver in Ireland and the United Kingdom) is a person who earns a living as the...
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| Newscaster | Job title | Keith Olbermann |
A person who presents the news on radio or television.
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| Chef |
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Job title | Austin Leslie | Cook |
A chef is a person who cooks professionally. In a professional kitchen setting, the term is used only for the one person in charge of everyone else in the kitchen, the executive chef.
"Chef" (from Latin caput) is the abbreviated form of the French...
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| Cook | rank | Rachael Ray |
A cook is a person that prepares food for consumption.
A cook is sometimes referred to as a chef, although within the professional kitchen, the terms are not exchangeable. The executive chef or sous chef is generally never referred to as a "cook".
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