Theoretician
noun
noun ·5 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Someone who is expert in the theory of a particular science or art.
- 2 someone who theorizes (especially in science or art) wordnet
- 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."
Example
More examples"He wasn't a theoretician, she says, he was interested in the practical application of knowledge."
Etymology
From theoretic + -ician.
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