theoretician
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Noun[edit]
theoretician (plural theoreticians)
- Someone who is expert in the theory of a particular science or art.
- A theorist.
- 2013 December 10, Ron Cowen, “Simulations back up theory that Universe is a hologram”, in Nature News[1], retrieved 2014-04-27:
- “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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Translations[edit]
expert in the theory of a science or art
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References[edit]
- “theoretician”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.