genetic engineer
English
Etymology
Coined by Poul Anderson in his 1954 novella "Big Rain", after the term genetic engineering.
Noun
genetic engineer (plural genetic engineers)
- A scientist or engineer whose speciality is genetic engineering
- 1954 October, Anderson, Poul, “Big Rain”, in Astounding Science Fiction, volume 54, number 2, page 22:
- Meanwhile giant pulverizers were reducing barren stone and sand to fine particles which would be mixed with fertilizers to yield soil; and the genetic engineers were evolving still other strains of life which could provide a balanced ecology; and the water units were under construction.
- 1966 June, New Scientist, page 762:
- The culture of embryos in the laboratory, destined to develop into adults whose physical and, possibly, intellectual characteristics had been chosen in advance by the genetic engineers.
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Translations
scientist or engineer
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References
- “genetic engineer” in Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, Oxford University Press, 2007, →ISBN, pages 77–78.
- genetic engineer n. at the OED Science Fiction Citations Project
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