1 someone who studies the science of rockets
2 someone who uses advanced mathematics to develop new financial products, calculate risk, etc.:
Many of the banking industry's brightest rocket scientists have been given over to the task.
I don't think it takes a rocket scientist to figure out what you ought to do next.
He spent about five years as a rocket scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
A pioneer rocket scientist whose career spanned five decades, Hunter joined Douglas Aircraft in 1944.
"None of them are rocket scientists," said Johnson, noting that many of DiNunzio's predecessors were convicted, partly based on recordings of them saying foolish and incriminating things.
They're not exactly rocket scientists.
