He wasn't a theoretician, she says, he was interested in the practical application of knowledge.
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Theoretician
Synonyms for "theoretician" (9 found)
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Noun(1 words)
Related words (4)
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13 translations across 12 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- теоретик noun (expert in the theory of a science or art)
Dutch
1 entries- theoreticus noun (expert in the theory of a science or art)
Finnish
1 entries- teoreetikko noun (expert in the theory of a science or art)
French
1 entries- théoricien noun (expert in the theory of a science or art)
Greek
1 entries- θεωρητικός noun (expert in the theory of a science or art)
Italian
2 entries- teorico noun (expert in the theory of a science or art)
- teorizzatore noun (expert in the theory of a science or art)
Macedonian
1 entries- теоретичар noun (expert in the theory of a science or art)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- teoretiker noun (expert in the theory of a science or art)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- teoretikar noun (expert in the theory of a science or art)
Polish
1 entries- teoretyk noun (expert in the theory of a science or art)
Swedish
1 entries- teoretiker noun (expert in the theory of a science or art)
Ukrainian
1 entries- теоре́тик noun (expert in the theory of a science or art)
Sample sentences
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“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.
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