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We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I should incline to call him a scientist. [The first use of the word.]

The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences vol. 1 (1840). Whewell coined scientist at a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in the early 1830s.
We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I should incline to call him a scientist. [The first use of the word.]