ionist

Etymology

From ion + -ist.

ionist means A scientist who studied ions in solution. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.

noun

A scientist who studied ions in solution.“It had been nearly 50 years before, in 1888–1898, that Armstrong first tangled with the ionists' ideas and, as Dolby comments, he was “an extreme individualist, who would never yield to the social pressures of a scientific community […]”