academician
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- n someone elected to honorary membership in an academy
- n a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation
- n an educator who works at a college or university
- At 27, he was elected a full-fledged academician.
- Moved by his conscience and his ethical convictions, academician Sakharov dared to publicly challenge the all-powerful machine of the totalitarian state.
- Armed with master's and doctorate degrees from the University of Syracuse, he became at once a journalist, academician, lecturer and pundit.