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'''Team Rocket {{tc|scientist}}s''' are either members of or contracted by [[Team Rocket]] to develop new technology. They help design and implement many of the devices used in Team Rocket's plans; they also experiment on Pokémon.

==In the games==
===Red/Blue/Green/Yellow/FireRed/LeafGreen===
Some of the [[Silph Co.]] scientists join Team Rocket in exchange for power and money. Both they and the {{tc|Team Rocket Grunt}}s attack the player to prevent interference with their plans regarding Silph Co.

====Sevii Islands====
When the player obtains the Sapphire from the [[Ruin Valley]] cave, Rocket Scientist [[Gideon]] drops down and steals it. The player faces him after defeating all Rocket grunts in a local warehouse. After defeating him, the player is told about [[Giovanni]]'s son and reads a file regarding a high-frequency sound wave machine which would influence Pokémon [[evolution]].

===Gold/Silver/Crystal/HeartGold/SoulSilver===
A group of Rocket scientists, as well as Grunts and {{tc|Executive}}s, tries to stop the player from destroying the high-frequency sound wave machine which would influence Pokémon evolution.

===Pokémon===
====Red/Blue/Green/Yellow/FireRed/LeafGreen====
{| align="left" width="64px"
|-
| {{ActivePoké|Team Rocket scientists|Magnemite|Spr 3f 081.png|electric|steel|size=64px|link=no}}
| {{ActivePoké|Team Rocket scientists|Magneton|Spr 3f 082.png|electric|steel|size=64px|link=no}}
| {{ActivePoké|Team Rocket scientists|Grimer|Spr 3f 088.png|poison|size=64px|link=no}}
| {{ActivePoké|Team Rocket scientists|Muk|Spr 3f 089.png|poison|size=64px|link=no}}
|-
| {{ActivePoké|Team Rocket scientists|Voltorb|Spr 3f 100.png|electric|size=64px|link=no}}
| {{ActivePoké|Team Rocket scientists|Electrode|Spr 3f 101.png|electric|size=64px|link=no}}
| {{ActivePoké|Team Rocket scientists|Koffing|Spr 3f 109.png|poison|size=64px|link=no}}
| {{ActivePoké|Team Rocket scientists|Weezing|Spr 3f 110.png|poison|size=64px|link=no}}
|}{{left clear}}

====Scientist Gideon (FireRed/LeafGreen only)====
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|sprite=FL Scientist.png
|prize={{pdollar}}2208
|class=Scientist
|name={{color2|000000|Gideon}}
|game=FRLG
|location=Rocket Warehouse
|pokemon=5
|pokemon1={{Pokémon|gen=3|game=FireRed|ndex=100|pokemon=Voltorb|ability=Unknown|item1=None|level=46|type1=Electric|move1=Swift|move1type=Normal|move2=Rollout|move2type=Rock|move3=Light Screen|move3type=Psychic|move4=Explosion|move4type=Normal}}
|pokemon2={{Pokémon|gen=3|game=FireRed|ndex=101|pokemon=Electrode|ability=Unknown|item2=None|level=46|type1=Electric|move1=Spark|move1type=Electric|move2=Rollout|move2type=Rock|move3=Light Screen|move3type=Psychic|move4=Selfdestruct|move4type=Normal}}
|pokemon3={{Pokémon|gen=3|game=FireRed|ndex=081|pokemon=Magnemite|ability=Unknown|item3=None|level=46|type1=Electric|type2=Steel|move1=Spark|move1type=Electric|move2=Lock-On|move2type=Normal|move3=Swift|move3type=Normal|move4=Screech|move4type=Normal}}
|pokemon4={{Pokémon|gen=3|game=FireRed|ndex=082|pokemon=Magneton|ability=Unknown|item1=None|level=46|type1=Electric|type2=Steel|move1=Thunder Wave|move1type=Electric|move2=Spark|move2type=Electric|move3=Lock-On|move3type=Normal|move4=Tri Attack|move4type=Normal}}
|pokemon5={{Pokémon|gen=3|game=FireRed|ndex=137|pokemon=Porygon|ability=Trace|level=46|type1=Normal|move1=Sharpen|move1type=Normal|move2=Lock-On|move2type=Normal|move3=Tri Attack|move3type=Normal|move4=Recycle|move4type=Normal}}
}}

====Gold/Silver/Crystal/HeartGold/SoulSilver====
{| align="left" width="80px"
|-
| {{ActivePoké|Team Rocket scientists|Magnemite|Spr 4h 081.png|electric|steel|size=80px|link=no}}
| {{ActivePoké|Team Rocket scientists|Koffing|Spr 4h 109.png|poison|size=80px|link=no}}
| {{ActivePoké|Team Rocket scientists|Ditto|Spr 4h 132.png|normal|size=80px|link=no}}
| {{ActivePoké|Team Rocket scientists|Porygon|Spr 4h 137.png|normal|size=80px|link=no}}
|}{{left clear}}

==In the manga==
===In the Pokémon Adventures manga===
In the [[Kanto]] and [[Johto]] sagas, Rocket scientists do not make many appearances as they appear to be keeping to the shadows. In fact, the only Rocket scientist to be known to the public is [[Blaine]], who helped on the [[Mewtwo Project]].

In [[PS020]], it was shown that the {{p|Eevee}} that {{adv|Red}} owned was asked to get for [[Erika]] was part of the "[[Eevee Bio-Engineering Scheme]]" that would allow Team Rocket to have a weapon with the skills to make an Eevee transform freely among its evolved forms without the use of [[evolutionary stone]]s. The scientists did this at Giovanni's command.

Most of the scientists were killed when {{p|Mewtwo}} destroyed the [[Cinnabar Lab]] in [[PS034]].

==In the anime==
{{an|Giovanni}} hired [[Dr. Fuji]] to use his team of scientists to find and clone {{p|Mew}}. Dr. Fuji agreed out of the hope that the money given to him to develop the cloning technology would allow him to make a replica of his late daugher {{an|Amber}}. The scientists succeeded in cloning Mew, and {{an|Mewtwo}} was created; however, soon after its awakening, Mewtwo destroyed the lab in which it was created and the scientists within it.

Other Rocket scientists worked under [[Professor Sebastian]], making the forced Pokémon evolution beam and the crystal system that traps the {{t|Electric}} Pokémon {{p|Raikou}} in ''[[The Legend of Thunder!]]''. Further into Johto, a team of Rockets working under [[Dr. Namba]] managed to trap two {{p|Lugia}}, a mother and {{jo|Silver|child}}. Namba was last known to be researching {{p|Hippowdon}}'s sand.

A scientist named [[Dr. Zager]] appeared in [[Unova]], working with [[Pierce]] to analyze the [[Meteonite]] and discover its potential. In more recent episodes, he has begun filling a superior officer role to [[Jessie]] and [[James]] similar to that of Dr. Namba in relation to [[Butch]] and [[Cassidy]].

==Trivia==
* Of all the Pokémon that the scientists used, all of the non-{{type|Poison}} Pokémon have no genders.

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