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Gentleman scientist
A gentleman scientist was a scientist with a private income who could pursue scientific study independently as he wished without excessive external financial pressures, in the days before large-scale government funding was available, up to the Victorian era, especially in England. For example, Charles Darwin's father helped fund him to be a gentleman scientist in Victorian times.
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