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  1. 1794-1866. British physicist and philosopher
  2. who coined the term `scientist` along with
  3. such words as `Eocene' and `Miocene',
  4. `electrode', `cathode', and `anode'. Most of
  5. his career was connected with Cambridge
  6. University, where he became the Master of
  7. Trinity College. His most enduring influence
  8. rests on two works of great scholarship, The
  9. History of the Inductive Sciences 1837 and
  10. The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences
  11. 1840.
  12.