Scientist 🧑‍🔬
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The scientist emoji, depicting a person alongside a microscope. This emoji is used to express scientists, researchers, and academics. Common usage includes 'Want to be a scientist🧑‍🔬' 'Research time🧑‍🔬' or 'STEM education🧑‍🔬' This is the gender-neutral version. Added in Unicode 12.1 in 2019 as part of the profession emoji series.

Scientists work across many fields: physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, earth sciences, space sciences, engineering, and computer science. The emoji can represent legendary scientists throughout history: Albert Einstein (theory of relativity), Isaac Newton (gravity), Marie Curie (radium discovery, two-time Nobel laureate), Charles Darwin (evolution), Nikola Tesla (electrical engineering), Stephen Hawking (cosmology), and Japanese Nobel laureates like Tasuku Honjo, Shinya Yamanaka, and Akira Yoshino. The emoji is used in posts about research, experiments, discoveries, paper publications, Nobel Prize announcements, and children's career aspirations in science.