Theoretician

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Someone who is expert in the theory of a particular science or art.
  2. 2
    someone who theorizes (especially in science or art) wordnet
  3. 3
    A theorist.

    "“They have numerically confirmed, perhaps for the first time, something we were fairly sure had to be true, but was still a conjecture — namely that the thermodynamics of certain black holes can be reproduced from a lower-dimensional universe,” says Leonard Susskind, a theoretical physicist at Stanford University in California who was among the first theoreticians to explore the idea of holographic universes."

Etymology

From theoretic + -ician.

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