The phrase "a distinguished academic" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to someone who has achieved a high level of respect and recognition in the field of academia.
Example: "Dr. Smith is a distinguished academic known for her groundbreaking research in environmental science."
Alternatives: "a renowned scholar" or "an esteemed educator."
Happer is a distinguished academic".
A distinguished academic, Freedman has written extensively on nuclear strategy and the cold war.
It's nice to find a distinguished academic agreeing with a poor geriatric patient like me.
When Pietroni became a distinguished academic, he threw a party to celebrate, to which a couple of Americans were invited.
Upon hearing it, one of America's most influential composers — and a distinguished academic, at that — was moved to tears.
Kenneth Johnson was a distinguished academic engineer, and author of the principal text in contact mechanics, his specialist area.
Guided by a board of distinguished academic advisers, it offers a select list of previously out-of-print books with new introductions, supplementary chapters, updated bibliographies and responses to critics.
Chandler enjoyed a long and distinguished academic career, which included professorships at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MITT; 1960 63), Johns Hopkins University (1963 71), and Harvard University (1971 89).
Four years ago, as he was about to turn 60, Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza was contemplating retirement and the end of a long and distinguished academic career.
A recent review by three distinguished academic economists also found no convincing evidence that real economic activity responds materially to tax-rate changes on top income earners, although such rate changes do affect their tax-avoidance behavior.
SEATTLE — Anyone who wants to learn calculus, statistics or ancient Greek history can take free online courses in those subjects at a variety of sites from instructors with distinguished academic pedigrees.
