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Discipline field groups earth scientists by the branch of science each one actually practiced. Wikipedia describes Alfred Wegener as "a German climatologist, geologist, geophysicist, meteorologist, and polar researcher," a scientist whose work spanned several fields at once. This dimension shows which fields have produced the people behind a given discovery.

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A meteorologist is a scientist who studies and works in the field of meteorology aiming to understand or predict Earth's atmospheric phenomena including the weather. 1
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1. Wikipedia: Meteorologist
WikipediaMeteorologist, lead sentence
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A meteorologist is a scientist who studies and works in the field of meteorology aiming to understand or predict Earth's atmospheric phenomena including the weather.
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