a scientist who works in the field of genetic engineering n.
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.
‘No wonder you like your work,’ Lauchstein, the genetic engineer shouted. The other scientists didn’t act so enthusiastic.
She suddenly had realized that not only could she get rid of him, but also at one bold stroke solve Madame’s frog problem and enhance her own reputation as a genetic engineer.
He was a genetic engineer, driven by his own wild dream that he could breed mutant plants magical enough to feed the crowded planet.
He is pursued by a…group of man-animal hybrids, creations of a crazed genetic engineer.
antedating 1954
Poul Anderson, "Big Rain", in Astounding
Earliest cite in OED2: 1966; updated to the 1954 Anderson quote for OED3.
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