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Theoretician vs Theorist - What's the difference?

theoretician | theorist |

Theorist is a synonym of theoretician.



As nouns the difference between theoretician and theorist

is that theoretician is someone who is expert in the theory of a particular science or art while theorist is someone who constructs theories, especially in the arts or sciences.

theoretician

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • someone who is expert in the theory of a particular science or art
  • a theorist
  • * {{quote-web
    • , date = 2013-12-10 , author = Ron Cowen , title = Simulations back up theory that Universe is a hologram , site = Nature News , url = http://www.nature.com/news/simulations-back-up-theory-that-universe-is-a-hologram-1.14328 , accessdate = 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.

    theorist

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who constructs theories, especially in the arts or sciences.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
    • , author=Michael Riordan , title=Tackling Infinity , volume=100, issue=1, page=86 , magazine= citation , passage=Some of the most beautiful and thus appealing physical theories, including quantum electrodynamics and quantum gravity, have been dogged for decades by infinities that erupt when theorists try to prod their calculations into new domains.}}

    Synonyms

    * theoretician (less common) * theorizer / theoriser

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