The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word TESLA
I've seen this crossword clue in The Times
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More clues leading to the result TESLA
- Inventor with unit in institute's lab
- Inventor almost fully ready to bounce back?
- A learner joining group set up in science unit
- Scientist almost entirely fixed up
- Primarily, Thomas Edison’s science-advancing, long-standing arch-rival!
- Inventive sort decorates Lancastrian houses
- Musky product served up in an oriental setting
- Least flexible measure of magnetic flux density
- T junction of routes with lane is spanned by it
- Unit of beer model-type upset over head of studio
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The straight part
We know that "Scientist" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case scientist = tesla.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does TESLA mean?
TESLA noun- In the International System of Units, the derived unit of magnetic flux density or magnetic inductivity. Symbol: T