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• n  someone who theorizes (especially in science or art)

• Two other defendants, including Chen Boda, 76, who had been Mao's personal secretary and a theoretician of the Cultural Revolution, had to be helped to their places before the bar .
• In the 1400s the Spanish chess theoretician Lucena recommended placing the board so that the light shines in the opponent's eyes.
• Few observers deny the seductive brilliance of Swiss philosopher and Islamic theoretician Tariq Ramadan, but disagreement over his true agenda is ferocious.

• theorist
• theorizer
• theoriser
• idealogue

News & Articles

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• The Public Cloud is Getting Ripe for Enterprise Adoption
  by Bennett Bauer Cloud computing may seem to be a relatively recent phenomenon, but in fact the concept of the cloud has been around for nearly as long as plans for the computer itself. As early as the 1950s, theoretician Herb Grosch was imagining a day when the world's computers would be powered by a handful of massive data centers – 15 or so would do the trick, Grosch figured. Grosch's ...
  Aug. 24, 2013 - Computer Technology Review

Quotes

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• Brin in Al-Bawaba
  Brin said his professor was "primarily a theoretician, and it's incredible the amount of impact he has had directly on products and companies."
• Alexander Sokurov in Buenos Aires Herald
  I'm no theoretician, I'ma practical director. I have never had any desire to uncover anything new. This idea of the long, unbroken shot has existed for years. I never do anything new,said Russian director Alexander Sokurov (Mother and Son,...
• Paul Kalas in FOX News
  So let's say you have a theoretician wants to make a model of how everything in the solar system forms,Kalas said. "If he starts off with that basic physics result that mass is proportional to radius cubed, he would get the wrong answer...