theoretician
IPA: θiɝʌtˈɪʃʌn
noun
- Someone who is expert in the theory of a particular science or art.
- A theorist.
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Examples of "theoretician" in Sentences
- The work of a theoretician is related in a direct way to his whole life.
- Geiger would become a second mentor to Bothe - the experimental twin of the great theoretician, Planck.
- The well-known opening theoretician, works with a little trick, avoiding the strict Ragozin variation 6.
- Walther Bothe was both a strong theoretician and one of the most accomplished experimental physicists of the first half of the 20th century.
- The connection isn't made explicit, but the time of Carlos, the international mercenary, is over, and that of Bin Laden, the theoretician, is just beginning.
- With over 150 concert dates and five or six record releases a year, Mr. Savall actively combines a solo career as a viol player with that of conductor and early music theoretician.
- German legal theoretician and political scientist Carl Schmitt helped form an ideological foundation for the Nazi dictatorship and justified its authoritarian state by using legal philosophy.
- Prickly, with a thick northern drawl, tobacco-stained teeth and an infectious laugh, he has always been considered part of the "loyal opposition," less a theoretician of a democratic revolution than a tough urban gadfly.
- I'm also convinced that when we refer to a "theoretician", we typically do not mean someone like Tom Cavalier-Smith whose scientific output consists of bold conjectures or systematic hypotheses (we might call such people "theorizers"), but instead someone like Joe Felsenstein whose work focuses on mathematical or algorithmic foundations, i.e., theory2.
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