When you're at a pub and you see a bunch of scientists in the corner, gazing at their shoes and looking generally uncomfortable, what do call them? Is it a group of scientists? A gaggle of scientists? A murder of scientists? My quick googling didn't give me an answer, so I put the question out on twitter and facebook - what is the collective noun for a group of scientists? Here is what came in:
- A cat-herd
- A quantum
- A cabal
- A tribe
- A gaggle
- A whiteout
- A multipact
- A maxineurone
- A quadrant
- A sample
- A study
- A congregation
- A plethora
- A nerdlet
- A conglomerate
- A floc
- A concurrence
- A quadribble
- A thinktank
- A confusion
- A bunsen
- A titration
- A force
- An experiment
- A geek
- A meter
- A beaker
- A discipline
- A method
- An examination
- A conjecture
- A dogma
- An array
- A geek
- An ego
A murder of scientists.
ReplyDeleteWouldn't it be a population of scientists?
Deletea collaboration
ReplyDeleteHi Marc -
ReplyDeleteHow about a curiosity of scientists?
Solid
DeleteA Theorum
ReplyDeleteIn graduate school, we used the term "a hypothesis of scientists...", which I think fits the mold very well.... Thanks.
ReplyDeleteHow about a superposition of physicists?
ReplyDeleteI'm going with a team or a group of scientists
ReplyDeleteShould it be discipline specific?
ReplyDeleteA quantum of physicists
A mole of chemists
A culture of biologists
A cognition of psychologists.