| MadSci Network: Science History |
Scientists have "ologist" at the ends for very good etymological reasons:
scientific disciplines were originally named in Greek or Latin. The Greek
"logos" means "word" or "description," while "-logia" was used in Medieval
Latin as a suffix to denote "study of."
Dan Berger
MadSci Administrator
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