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Why? 1) Its the long-accepted term - its what the universities put on your Bachelor of SCIENCE certificate. Part of our rich oral history if you will. 2) Rese

• MaxBarraclough 7y ago
  > Its the long-accepted term - its what the universities put on your Bachelor of SCIENCE certificate We're not talking about the word science, we're talking about the word scientist. It is indeed a long-accepted term. Scientist means someone who does science. It does not mean someone with a basic grounding in the field, which is what a BSc indicates. With few exceptions, scientists hold PhDs. That is, after all, the point of a PhD. If you get a BSc in computer science and then make a billion dollars selling fidget-spinners, your Wikipedia article will describe you as an 'entrepreneur'. There's no way it would describe you as a 'scientist'. > Research chemists don't suddenly start using the term 'chemistry scientist'. They are all just chemists. Chemists are scientists by definition, and the same thing applies here. Holding a BSc in chemistry does not make you a chemist. Doing chemistry, and presumably publishing papers, makes you a chemist. As with the distinction between computer science and software engineering, there is a distinction between chemistry and chemical engineering.
  • pinkfoot 7y ago
    > Doing chemistry, make you a chemist. As does doing computer science. I did computer science last week (analysed the run time complexity of an algorithm). Hence: computer scientist.
  • pinkfoot 7y ago
    > Holding a BSc in chemistry does not make you a chemist. No, it absolutely complete, totally, without exception does. Just look at the job advertisements.