Edit: 'Professional Scientist' as we understand it is a little bit of a modern concept. Historically it was an interest, not necessarily always profession per s

Edit: 'Professional Scientist' as we understand it is a little bit of a modern concept. Historically it was an interest, not necessarily always profession per sey although I guess by the time of Darwin it was more or less starting to be that [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Society https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Society