mineralogist

[min-uh-rahl-uhj-ist]

noun

1. a scientist in the field of mineralogy.

Example Sentences

"What we've learned from it is amazing," said Prof Sara Russell, a cosmic mineralogist from the Natural History Museum in London.

From BBC

The co-authors themselves represent a unique multi-disciplinary configuration: three philosophers of science, two astrobiologists, a data scientist, a mineralogist, and a theoretical physicist.

From Science Daily

“We don’t have something more volatile rich in our collections,” says Sara Russell, a cosmic mineralogist at the Natural History Museum in London who believes Bennu could represent a wholly new class of asteroid.

From Science Magazine

While many of the rock shapes on Mars hint at a dynamic past, says mineralogist Susanne Schwenzer of the Open University in England, the rocks often objectively look like plain, rounded pebbles.

From Scientific American

“What you don't get from this very quantifiable, very definable taxonomy of mineral species is context,” says Shaunna Morrison, a mineralogist and planetary scientist at the Carnegie Institution for Science.

From Scientific American