science as a profession

Mary Shelley gave Frankenstein such a powerful interest for science. His powerful interest lead him into studying more into the field. Frankenstein had every intention of turning science into his profession. Very fittingly, science was becoming such a new and big field that had many varieties and possible titles as professions in the 1800s.

"The 19th century saw the birth of science as a profession; the term scientist was coined in 1833 by William Whewell^[9]. Among the most influential ideas of the 19th century were those of Charles Darwin, who in 1859 published the book The Origin of Species, which introduced the idea of evolution by natural selection. Louis Pasteur made the first vaccine against rabies, and also made many discoveries in the field of chemistry, including the asymmetry of crystals. Thomas Alva Edison gave the world a practical everyday lightbulb. Karl Weierstrass and other mathematicians also carried out the arithmetization of analysis. But the most important step in science at this time was the ideas formulated by Michael Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell. Their work changed the face of physics and made possible for new technology to come about."

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century)

-Michael