THEORETICAL physicists have a knack of asking "why not?" Antimatter was discovered because a theoretician called Paul Dirac saw that one of his equations had two solutions: one with a plus sign that predicted normal negatively charged electrons, the other with a minus sign that predicted a curious positively charged beast.
He is a theoretician, people say, where Mr Bond is a pragmatist.
Their first great theoretician, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, wanted to abolish centralised government altogether.
Mr Ryan, the ranking member of the Budget Committee, has made himself the party's indispensable theoretician since producing his "Road Map for America's Future", one of the most serious Republican efforts to chart a way out of the country's long-term fiscal crisis.
Its leading theoretician was Aleksandr Bogdanov.
August 18 , 1922Brest, France February 18 , 2008Caen, France Alain Robbe-Grillet, (born Aug. 18, 1922, Brest, France died Feb. 18, 2008, Caen), representative writer and leading theoretician of the nouveau roman ("new novel"), the French "anti-novel" that emerged in the 1950s.
The principal source of information about Velázquez's early career is the treatise Arte de la pintura ("The Art of Painting"), published in 1649 by his master and father-in-law Francisco Pacheco, who is more important as a biographer and theoretician than as a painter.
Although he was not a distinguished theoretician, Bernstein, called "the father of revisionism," envisaged a type of social democracy that combined private initiative with social reform.
When Bernstein returned to Germany in 1901, he became the theoretician of the growing revisionist school of the reformist labour movement.
After considerable palaver, the provisional government co-opted four of the radical leaders, including the socialist theoretician Blanc and a workingman who called himself Albert.
He reached New York City in January 1917, where he joined the Bolshevik theoretician Nikolay Bukharin in editing the Russian-language paper Novy Mir ("The New World").
