super-scientist n.

a person who studies, or creates inventions using, super-science n.

1928 A. C. Doyle When World Screamed in Lost World & Other Stories (1995) 461
Challenger the super scientist, Challenger the arch pioneer, Challenger the first man of all men whom Mother Earth had been compelled to recognize.
1934 D. Wandrei Scientist Divides in Astounding Stories Sept. 54/2 Donald Wandrei
Why may not man himself now be only a similar basic cell out of which even vaster and more complex organisms will evolve in the course of ages? Imagine what would happen if a superscientist treated man as such a cell and then, in the laboratory, constructed from one or dozens of men a creature of the year one billion!
1953 L. S. de Camp Science Fiction Handbook 69 L. Sprague de Camp
The plus-sign at the end of the hero’s surname (a pun to begin with) indicates that he is a super-scientist.
1964 P. Nowlan & R. Calkins Great Classic Comic Newspaper Strips, No. 1, Buck Rogers Issue Oct. 4
Absolute masters of America and the world. Cruel, inhuman super scientists.
1991 H. Rheingold Virtual Reality iii. x. 238
The Japanese are not superscientists; they can’t go any faster than anyone else can.

antedating 1928

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