The phrase "a prominent representative of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to someone who is well-known and respected for being the representative of a particular group or idea. For example: "The Prime Minister is a prominent representative of democracy in our country."
It could be said that seeing a prominent representative of racist views being punched brings catharsis in a world that appears to be slouching toward Nazism.
Viète was a prominent representative of the humanist movement in mathematics that set itself the project of restoring and furthering the achievements of the Classical Greek geometers.
During that time, his atheism attracted no particular attention: it went almost without saying that a prominent representative of the British left didn't believe in God.
composer, teacher, and a prominent representative of nationalism in American music who came to be regarded as the musical spokesman for the American landscape.
With his first novels he became a prominent representative of Socialist Realism, in which he showed such considerable narrative talent that in 1948 his novel of wartime Warsaw, "The Rebellious City," received the government's highest literary award.
He was a prominent representative of those humanist scholars active during the last revival of classical learning in Byzantium and is best remembered for his Erotemata grammatika ("Grammatical Questions," first printed in Milan, 1493), a handbook of Greek in the form of question and answer that enjoyed great popularity among Western humanists of the early Renaissance.
He is accused of being a "prominent representative" and a former "man of honour" in the Sicilian mafia offshoot, Cosa Nostra, for whom he allegedly collected bribes from builders in Trabia, near Palermo.
The reactions in this cluster are excluded from the networks at 10 min and peak with respect to their fractional appearances at 30 min. A prominent representative in this group of reactions is the glycine cleavage system, which has been found to be slightly affected by cold stress [ 30].
Hayes's intent had been to appoint the Confederate general Joseph E. Johnston as secretary of war; but the proposal drew such heated criticism within his own party that he settled on Key, a less prominent representative of the Confederacy, whom he in 1877 appointed postmaster general.
He was clearly a young, prominent representative of the British clinical tradition in neurology, which by the close of the First World War was world renowned.
To obtain all proteins of a certain family, a prominent representative was chosen (listed in the legend of Table 1) and a BLAST search [ 75] was performed (cut-off < e−5) on all publicly available sequenced Bacilli genomes.
