Sentence examples for notable scholar from inspiring English sources

In the 9th century the Arab al-Kindī was the first notable scholar to use the Arabic language in a general introduction of mainly Aristotelian philosophy.

A notable scholar and sportsman, he had a likewise distinguished RAF war record, with an AFC in 1943, as a squadron leader.

In Germany Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa (1401 64), a notable scholar and thinker, and the Franciscan theologian and preacher, Saint John of Capistrano (1386 1456), laboured hard at reform with much success.

Combined with his sporting prowess he was a notable scholar, so while he gained a first-class degree in Classics from Oxford University, he also collected 12 Blues and captained the University at football, cricket and athletics.

There are many who suggest, including the notable scholar George Friedman that the Arab spring is some kind of mass delusion that amounts to, "just demonstration accompanied by slaughter and extraordinarily vacuous observers".

The East Wing literary symposiums have brought together notable scholars.

He made Munich a centre of Germany's intellectual and artistic life, calling many notable scholars to the Bavarian capital.

At court she encouraged such notable scholars as Pietro Martire d'Anghiera, whom she set up as the head of a new palace school for the sons of the nobility.

Widely acknowledged as the most eminent of the notable scholars who congregated in Jixia, the capital of the wealthy and powerful Qi state in the mid-3rd century bce, Xunzi distinguished himself in erudition and by the quality of his argumentation.

In each of the examined fields, Wikipedia failed in covering notable scholars properly.

In order to measure the overall performance of Wikipedia in representing the notable scholars, we calculated the F-scores for each of the examined fields (Table 3).