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20th century

This dimension groups scientists by the era in which they worked. Wikipedia notes that "it was not until the 19th century that the term scientist came into regular use," a term coined long after many of the people the atlas now calls scientists had already done their work. Browsing by era lets a visitor compare scientists active in the same period.

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20th century
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Andre Martinet

20th century

Andrew Garrett

20th century

Arnold Zwicky

20th century

Arthur S. Abramson

20th century

Barbara Partee

20th century

Brian D. Joseph

20th century

Calvert Watkins

20th century

Charles A. Ferguson

20th century

Charles Hockett

20th century

D. Terence Langendoen

20th century

Dan Slobin

20th century

David Lightfoot

20th century

David M. Perlmutter

20th century

Dell Hymes

20th century

Elizabeth Closs Traugott

20th century

Ellen F. Prince

20th century

Emile Benveniste

20th century

Emmon Bach

20th century

Eric P. Hamp

20th century

Eugene Nida

20th century

Geoffrey Pullum

20th century

George Kingsley Zipf

20th century

Ilse Lehiste

20th century

Janet Dean Fodor

20th century

Joan Bresnan

20th century

Joan Bybee

20th century

Joan Maling

20th century

John Goldsmith

20th century

John Ohala

20th century

John Rickford

20th century

Joseph Greenberg

20th century

Joshua Fishman

20th century

Judith Aissen

20th century

Kenneth Pike

20th century

Keren Rice

20th century

Larry M. Hyman

20th century

Laurence R. Horn

20th century

Lila Gleitman

20th century

Lise Menn

20th century

Marianne Mithun

20th century

Mark Aronoff

20th century

Michael E. Krauss

20th century

Michael Halliday

20th century

Morris Swadesh

20th century

Noam Chomsky

20th century

Paul J. Chapin

20th century

Paul Kiparsky

20th century

Peter Ladefoged

20th century

Richard S. Kayne

20th century

Roger Shuy

20th century

Sandra A. Thompson

20th century

Sarah G. Thomason

20th century

Sheila Blumstein

20th century

Stephen R. Anderson

20th century

Uriel Weinreich

20th century

William Bright

20th century

William Labov

20th century

Zellig Harris

20th century
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Linguistics
WikipediaLinguistics, Etymology section
Quote, Linguistics, Etymology section
Although the term linguist in the sense of "a student of language" dates from 1641, the term linguistics is first attested in 1847.
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